Since they put me out of business, I am still bent on
improving the quality of treatment for clients.
I have been clean and sober since 1986. I know how good life can be without
drugs and alcohol. Since getting into recovery, my main goal has been to find
ways to reach other people to help them get what I now have.
When I opened my first agency in 1989, I was only the 3rd private person in the
entire state to achieve state certification of an out-patient treatment
facility. (verses corporations like Bellin or government funded like Brown County
Mental Health Center).
I was infomed of this accomplishment the day the agency was certified by the
certification specialist (had I known it before I probably would not have even
attempted the feat).
In the following years, many others jumped on board and I helped a lot of them
with doing so.
Well, let me tell you, its a long, hard fall from the top. In fact, its
devastating!
All I wanted to do was provide good treatment to a small number of clients a
year. The only reason I kept getting bigger was because I needed more money to
fight off the corrupt attempts to drive me out of the field.
If I posted how much money I spent on this campaign over the years, people would
either not believe me, or agree with the opposition that I am a certifiable
nutcase.
Would I do it all again? Under the same circumstances, yes. I'd have to.
These guys were interfering with the fate of my fellow addicts and alcoholic,
fellow counselors, and anyone else who got in the way of their gravy train.
Somebody had to fight for these people, and I seemed to be the only one in a
position to do anything to help.
The funniest part of this whole scenario is that being broke doesn't bother me
one bit. The money never was my goal in getting into the field.
But I can guarantee you that Van Beek is probably suicidal over being broke.
Money was all he ever cared about or spoke about.
I think that's what's known as being materialist. Evie is not the least bit
materialistic.
When the agencies were going strong, I drove a 5 year old Gremlin (and I loved
that car), shopped at Wal-mart and K-mart and lunched at Country Kitchen. And
guess what? I was perfectly happy.
The bottom line is that Evie's broke, happy and sleeps well at night; while Van
Beek, Quam and the rest of the corrupt people in the AODA field, are dropping
off like flies and looking over their shoulders to see when the axe is going to
fall once they are caught.
Cheers,
Evie