Success Stories
His Road to Recovery Project is Shovel Ready
Bradley Schade knows that the complications of life can interfere with relationships or work. He’s a Campaign Coordinator for a national consulting firm and former client. Life Guidance Services helped him build the coping skills needed to live a productive life. In addition to counseling, the Intensive Outpatient... read full story
Yo Puedo Grows Good People and Good Food
Yo Puedo is a substance abuse prevention program with a primary focus Latino teens. It is one of Life Guidance Services Wellness and Prevention programs. With support from the Sebastian Foundation, Yo Puedo participants recently transformed a vacant lot used for gang activity, into a productive... read full story
Planning For the Future, Today
Life Guidance Service’s Wellness and Prevention programs reach children before trouble reaches them. Each year, more than 100 high school students volunteer to teach prevention lessons to fifth and sixth graders throughout Montcalm County. These high school role models carry a powerful message when they talk... read full story
Helping Boys Become Men
Willie Booker of Life Guidance Service’s Wellness and Prevention Programs describes Rites of Passage as “life enrichment for 9 to 13 year old boys, getting them ready for middle and high school.” Over the course of his 16-year involvement in the 12-week program, Willie has seen everyone benefit... read full story
Healing Arts
Thanks to the generosity of donors, the Medication-Assisted Therapy Program at Life Guidance was able to purchase much needed supplies for art therapy. Art therapy can be a very effective tool in the recovery process. The activity can provide relief, courage, and strengthening insight. A client's... read full story
Fifth Third Bank supports the Life Guidance Services Client Assistance Fund
It is the goal of Life Guidance Services, and all divisions of Proaction Behavioral Health Alliance, to turn no one away who needs our help. A $15,000 grant from the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts/Fifth Third Bankwas recently awarded to the Life Guidance Services Client Assistance Fund to help ensure... read full story
Following Her Passion
Yamilka Marti was 15 years old when she came to this country from Puerto Rico. In School in Puerto Rico she was very involved in sports but felt intimidated here. She remembers not knowing many Latino families in this country. But the picture changed when she began the Yo Puedo program in her... read full story
Helping the Community Grow
Tom Almonte’s family came to this country from the Dominican Republic when he was a young boy. Tom wanted to fit in and feel normal. At Union High School he got the chance through four years of Yo Puedo, an enrichment program for Hispanic youth. Yo Puedo exposed the young man to new settings and... read full story
Veteran Gets Help Recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Before, I felt angry. Now I am feeling peace. I am happy. – Eric, client and Army Veteran recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program at Life Guidance Services Connects Families to Community Resources
The most rewarding thing for me is knowing that I’m helping other grandparents who don’t know anything about the services out there. Just talking with other people… makes you a stronger family. – Sarah Stephan, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program
Client at Life Guidance Services' Intensive Outpatient Program Overcomes Addiction and Improves Her Life
The IOP changed my life. I have always felt powerless... Now I am able to ask for what I need... I am able to speak up and speak my mind when something isn’t right. – Beth F., Intensive Outpatient Treatment client
I now have a sense of purpose
Sara was given Oxycontin while in the hospital after a painful pregnancy and delivery. Once her supply was gone she looked for something else to dull her pain and soon started using herion. After using for about a year, she became pregnant. It was this pregnancy and the impending baby that... read full story