ShareThisCaroline Mack said she thought she was going to jail, because that’s what the creditors were telling her.
Her husband took care of everything, so when he died two years ago, things quickly began to deteriorate for the 52-year-old mother of two.
The Belize native said she’s not sure where she’d be now if she hadn’t found the American Canyon Family Resource Center. But through several of the center’s new SparkPoint services, funded through United Way of the Bay Area, she said she’s feeling more hopeful these days.
“I come here and I get lessons, I get work experience, they’re really, really good people,” she said. “They’re patient, compassionate; they listen to you, what you need. Coming here every Wednesday makes me feel alive again.”
Mack, who said she’s been in the United States 35 years, walks to the Family Resource Center each week, because she has no car. But through SparkPoint, Mack said she’s getting credit counseling, the threatening phone calls are dwindling, and she’s moving forward with her life.
Mack is also learning to improve her reading and writing skills, she said. It’s one of the many services now available through a newly minted holistic approach being applied by United Way, center executive director Sherry Tennyson said.
“United Way will eventually have seven SparkPoint centers,” she said. “Oakland was the first to come on line and ours was second.”
Read the entire article, SparkPoint inspires renewed hope among struggling clients, which appeared in both the Times-Herald and the Contra Costa Times.
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