“Coming out of the woods on a cold winter morning you need to have a pick-me-up and to have a good place to do so, a safe place and wonderful people. It’s a great place to start over and pick up; it’s like, if you don’t know what to do or where to go there are people here to help you, or at least point you in the right direction…. Get you off your feet, get you feeling better about life.... To get somebody who doesn’t know me and only knows what I’m saying and sees me crying in front of them… its amazing. I don’t know how they’re able to shut their personal stuff off and come here to help us with our issues.”

“You give us such hope. I can come in for breakfast, pick out some clothes for my interview, and in three days I have a resume submitted to businesses and an interview scheduled. You just give us such hope.”

“Seeds of Hope, it’s a place where you can go and you’re not shunned away. It’s a place where you can go to get counseling, anything…. I didn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel when I was 15. I was going down a dark path. If it wasn’t for Seeds of Hope, if it wasn’t for In A Pinch, there’s a lot of ladies that I owe a big thanks to, and a lot of gentlemen."