“It Changed My Life”
The program demonstrated that people can change, and Jenny, a single mother with two children, serves as a recent case in point. After years of personal trouble, the low point in her life came when a warrant was issued for methamphetamine possession. She concluded she couldn’t live with that hanging over her head and turned herself in.
Jenny knew that her life was not something to be proud of. She had not accomplished any of her goals and, even more importantly for her, had not provided a safe family environment for her children or given them a mother worthy of respect.
Following her guilty plea, she was offered the choice of going to jail or taking a course of instruction based on common-sense moral values that would help her to examine the life and behavior that had brought her before a court of law on a criminal charge, she chose the latter.
“Looking back at what happened to me over the last four years,” she said, “I was always getting in trouble.” The course was instrumental in changing that and turning her life around. Among other things, it made her realize that life itself was far too important to waste.
Because the course helped her to realize how her actions affected others, one of the most important things she came away from the course with was the decision to set a good example for her children.
“Before, I didn’t think about anything but my little area,” Jenny said. After graduating from the course, she said, “I better understood how to live my life.”
As she had never completed high school, she was proud of finishing the course. “It changed my life,” she said. “This program is the good thing that happened to me.” Today she is off drugs, living with her parents, taking care of her children and working part-time.
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