Please allow me to share a story of one of our Food for Thought participants who is now a peer leader. I hope you'll find this explains our program. This is Courtney's story:
I came to Food for Thought in December of 2005. I was single, pregnant, and had absolutely nothing to my name. I had just gotten out of a treatment centre and was pregnant for the first time. I was desperately afraid of everything. I had gone to treatment for drug addiction because I had been struggling with addictions for many years, and finally hit bottom using crack cocaine. I had dropped out of high school and left home at a young age, and had been using drugs and alcohol—