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Cleveland Mediation Center: Life's Second Chances
Cleveland Mediation Center: Life's Second Chances

Charles had all but lost hope. He wanted a chance to change his life, to be a husband and father, and to leave the lifestyle that had led to serving time in prison. He had spent 7 years in prison for drug trafficking and weapons charges.

After serving his time, Charles was sent to the Community Based Correctional Facility (CBCF) for six months to transition back into the community. He felt lost, unsure of what to do. It was there that Charles met Tracy Callahan, a mediator from FrontLine Service’s Cleveland Mediation Center program.

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FrontLine StoriesBruce Waltonstory, Cleveland Mediation Center, CMC, prison, incarceration, man, father
Bridges to Housing: Breaking the Cycle
Bridges to Housing: Breaking the Cycle

Imagine coming from a series of broken homes, left emotionally and psychologically scarred from your childhood, abandoned by your family, jumping from foster home to foster home. In such an unforgiving world, you turn to drugs as your only escape as you enter into adulthood with no home, no income, and no support from family.

When you find out that you are going to be a parent, you know you would do anything for your child to save him from the life you have lived. That was the situation Cindy found herself in before finding FrontLine Service’s Bridges to Housing program.

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FrontLine StoriesBruce Waltonhomelessness, motherhood, mother, child, father, fatherhood, Bridges to Housing, FrontLine Stories