2/21/2023 0 Comments Hope outreach enid ok“I became so much more personally involved with our clients, I knew immediately this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life,” Van Krevelen said. Not long after, he started working in drug and alcohol treatment programs, and in 1997 founded Vans House with his wife, Sally. “The board of directors was asking me where I was.”Īlready on his second marriage, and facing the loss of his job, Van Krevelen finally embraced recovery. “I was drinking and doing so many drugs, I couldn’t do my job,” Van Krevelen said. But, eventually, the effects of addiction caught up with him. Van Krevelen said he managed to get off the drugs while serving as a police officer in Enid for seven years, but continued to rely on alcohol to handle the stress of the job.īy 1985, Van Krevelen had moved on, and moved up, in spite of his addiction, to become vice president of a company of 150 employees in Oklahoma City. “That combination of drugs and alcohol was going to be deadly for me.” “The depression and shame I felt helped turn me even more to drugs and alcohol,” he said. And that, he said, led to a downward spiral. He started drinking in high school, and escalated to abusing drugs for pain management while playing football at the University of Oklahoma in the late 1960s.īecause of alcohol, drugs and injury, Van Krevelen never made it into a game with the Sooners. Scott Van Krevelen, founder and director at Vans House sober living community in Enid, said it was his own struggles with addiction that led him to help others. “Mental health issues and addiction and things like this were things you swept under the rug and didn’t talk about.” “I think it’s so important to talk about this in the open,” Werner said. He said too many people don’t embrace that opportunity for recovery, because social stigma continues to be a barrier to reaching out for help. For him, that was the “rock bottom” moment that led to recovery. “I thought, ‘she’d be ashamed of her dad,'” Werner said. The first Father’s Day after she was born, Werner was in jail after a bar fight. He said things finally changed for him when he was 37, and his first daughter was born. “My mental excuse was, ‘I’m a guy, I was an Airborne Ranger, and guys just go to bars and start fights,'” Werner said. But, 35 came and went, and the birth of three sons, and the drinking remained. He told himself he’d quit drinking when he turned 35. Why would you only drink one or two when you could just keep drinking – that was my attitude.” “I’d always known I was an alcoholic,” Werner said. By the time he returned from the war in Vietnam, Werner said he knew he had a problem. Werner’s struggles with alcohol started early, when he left home at the age of 17. “With anything we do, that we believe is probably the single most positive thing we’ve done – which for me is stopping drinking – I’d think most of us would want to share that with others,” Werner said in an interview with the Enid News & Eagle. In a society where addiction remains a taboo topic, Werner said he’s passionate about sharing his story, because he wants others to know there can be success after addiction. Werner, who spoke recently at Enid Rotary Club, is among a growing corps of people in the community speaking openly about their struggles with addiction, in hopes of helping others in need of recovery. But, when Werner speaks in public, whether it’s about his business or his charitable efforts with Rotary International, he begins with a simple, and to some, shocking, message: “I am an alcoholic.” (James Neal/The Enid News & Eagle via AP)ĮNID (AP) – By almost any measure, Jack Werner, owner of A to Z Inspections of Oklahoma City, is a successful business owner. Items must be in gently used condition.Scott Van Krevelen, founder and director at Vans House, stands outside the sober living community house in Enid.Hope Outreach Thrift Store, 215 S Van Buren, Enid, OK 73701.Items must be in gently used/resalable condition.Does not accept encyclopedias or outdated books and/or magazines.Hospice Circle of Love, 314 S 3rd St, Enid, OK 7301.Assorted media: DVDs & Blu-Rays, Audiobooks on CD, Video Games.Oklahoma history books and microfilm, particularly those covering Enid & Garfield County, in EXCELLENT condition.Nonfiction in EXCELLENT condition, timely or relevant to today’s market.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |