The KECH Foundation

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From Courage to Change

As a non-profit organization working to help improve the lives of others, The KECH Foundation is grateful to have earned the Silver Seal of Transparency from GuideStar! https://www.guidestar.org/profile/85-1037058

A brief informational video about The KECH Foundation’s philosophy and approach to helping individuals and families in the local community who have been affected by alcohol or substance use disorder.

The choice is yours.

In coordination with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Region 4 Field Office, Legacy Behavioral Health Services and Lowndes Cou...nty Board of Commissioners will host a series of Mental Health First Aid trainings beginning in April running through July. Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour training course designed to give members of the public key skills to help someone who is experiencing a mental health crisis. Training Courses will be held Thursday, April 22 Wednesday, May 5 Tuesday, June 8 Wednesday, July 14 Each training will be from 8am-5pm at the Lowndes County Emergency Operations Center located at 250 Douglas Street, Valdosta, Georgia. Trainings are free, space is limited and registration is required. Email: [email protected] to register. #MHFA, #MentalHealth, #BeTheDifference

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THE LANGUAGE OF LETTING GO March 29 "Getting Needs Met"... Picture yourself walking through a meadow. There is a path opening before you. As you walk, you feel hungry. Look to your left. There’s a fruit tree in full ripe. Pick what you need. Steps later, you notice you’re thirsty. On your right, there’s a fresh water spring. When you are tired, a resting place emerges. When you are lonely, a friend appears to walk with you. When you get lost, a teacher with a map appears. Before long, you notice the flow: need and supply, desire and fulfillment. Maybe, you wonder, someone gave me the need because someone planned to fulfill it. Maybe I had to feel the need, so I would notice and accept the gift. Maybe closing my eyes to the desire closes my arms to its fulfillment. Demand and supply, desire and fulfillment a continuous cycle, unless we break it. All the necessary supplies have already been planned and provided for this journey. Today, everything I need shall be supplied to me.

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3 Woke up this morning incredibly grateful because I remember saying to my dad when he picked me up from the airport "if I can make it to 90 days I will be happy"...... in the back of my brain I was already telling myself that there was absolutely no way I would even be able to achieve that. I was so full of fear. ... Fear of failing yet again, fear of losing my best friend..... and yes drugs were like my toxic best friend. They had taken everything from me but still wanted my life but were there whenever I needed them to deal with the chaos they caused. How sick is that? Something was different this time though. I just didn't know what it was at the time..... It was surrender. Towards the end of my using it had become my daily plea to God please help me or let me die because I can't do this anymore. That right there was the gift of desperation and for that I am incredibly grateful After maybe a week of saying that plea daily and meaning it I was on a plane home to give it one last shot. Has it been easy.... no but it's been a whole lot easier then living in active addiction. How did I do it...... I went to a lot of meetings, got a sponsor, worked a set of steps and got a service position. Only hung out with people who matched my future not my past. I stayed away from people, places and things that I had no business being around. I prayed a lot and found a higher power of my understanding. Then I took it one day at a time Coming from someone who couldn't even put a few hours together and had tried getting clean so many times before: please don't stop trying because I am living proof that we do recover and so can you

Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to The KECH Foundation, a small nonprofit organization which helps people in South Central Georgia realize the blessings of Recovery from Addiction. No contribution is too small to make a big difference.

The KECH Foundation wants to thank the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Valdosta United Way and many others for helping us celebrate a wonderful ribbon cutting today, and allowing us the opportunity to share the KECH Foundation’s mission.

The KECH Foundation is hosting an open house today from 11AM to 2PM. Please feel free to stop in to meet our people and learn about what we’re doing to help people in South Central Georgia.