Arturo’s Story
My name is Arturo. It is with the deepest of gratitude for what has been a most pivotal part of my life. When I got to CRASH Long-Term, Golden Hill House I (now Golden Hill House II), I walked in homeless with only a duffle bag of clothes, broken, and uncertain if this was really what I needed in life. My P.O. was clear about this though, “you can do one year in residential treatment or go to prison for three years” she said. Obviously, I took the year in treatment. I still hesitated to engage with house rules and having a Shadow. Unsolicited at my heels was some really tough love by my counselors and the entire staff who saw something within me. I had fought treatment for thirty days until I respectfully surrendered to residential treatment. Exile, by the way, was my best tool to seek some truth about my life.
Fast forward – I honor my clean date July 1, 2002 with seventeen years and counting. I have managed to raise two girls as a single parent for eleven years. I earned legal custody in 2007. While raising these girls I committed to doing things with them and ended up becoming a Girl Scouts Brownie Troop leader. Yes, you heard right, a little homie from down the way in Girl Scouts.
I have been working for the same company now for almost 14 years now. I am a homeowner and currently raising three beautiful girls of which the youngest is three years old. Thank you C.R.A.S.H. GOLDEN HILL HOUSE ONE.