Community Healing Centers – United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region

Saving Babies, Changing Lives

July 30, 2018

There are days when Kaye Sanders realizes she’s been holding her breath from the moment she woke up. As the Recovery House Coordinator for Community Healing Centers’ Women’s Specialty Program, Sanders and her team walk beside women working to rebuild lives and families while battling addiction. Many of them – particularly those who reside at…

Maxine's Story

May 9, 2018

Maxine was using methamphetamines when she discovered she was pregnant last year. She had been struggling in the aftermath of a DUI charge, trying hard to “make it all work” and feeling that she wasn’t moving forward in life. “I felt overwhelmed and hopeless,” she said. “I started using meth because I felt like I…