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Good News Stories
*Names have been changed.
When Donna* came through the doors of Christian Community Action for the first time, she states in retrospect that she was 10/10 on the scale of seriousness with her plans to take her life. She shares that she felt alone, she was losing everything and she was hopeless. A medical condition had caused her to lose her job, and with the loss of her job she lost the insurance that helped control her condition. She came to CCA's Adult Health Center to be screened for services, expecting to be put down because of the circumstance in which she now found herself.
She has told us that the person screening her treated her so kindly that she left with newfound hope. She decided not to go through her plan to take her life and came back to the clinic to see a provider the next day. At that visit, she was evaluated, given samples of medications and a voucher for the medications for which samples were not available. She told the provider that although she still had thoughts about committing suicide, her level of intent was now down to 3/10.
CCA discovered that she had not eaten in three days, so she was given a meal and an emergency food voucher for the pantry. She was able to visit with the chaplain and for the first time in a while she felt like someone cared. She was grateful that she was not treated like "scum," but like someone "who was family." She felt that the people she met were just giving and giving to her, and they were not judging.
When she went to work, she shared with her supervisor what had been going on with her. She wanted to do something for CCA, and her supervisor told her about grants from their company. She submitted a grant application as soon as she could.
When she came back to the clinic ten days later for a follow up, she was doing much better. In her words, she had "started living again."