 "Truth is powerful,
and it prevails."
These are the words of our company's namesake, Sojourner Truth. From 1843 onwards, Sojourner Truth was the self-given name of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio — a Midwestern town that 84 years later would also serve as the birthplace of the Alcoholics Anonymous program.
Like Sojourner Truth, we also believe that the truth will prevail. That truth can be as simple and real as the truth that it is possible to recover from the disease of drug and alcohol addiction. Every day in our area thousands suffer needlessly from the devastating effects of chemical dependency — broken homes, lost jobs, loved ones disappearing from our lives — all these tragedies and many more are visited upon those who suffer from the disease of addiction.
“Surely together we can turn the world right-side up again.”
— Sojourner Truth |
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And yet there is hope. Shedding the shackles of drug or alcohol addiction isn't easy, but it is possible with the help of those who understand. Since 1984, Sojourner Recovery Services has offered this helping hand to those in need. Utilizing the latest methods in research-based chemical dependency treatment, combined with the proven tools of the past 75 years, Sojourner Recovery Services helps our clients regain purposeful and meaningful lives, as well as their sense of self-worth. Individualized programs of treatment help heal the whole person, and have helped the men, women, adolescents and children of our area realize their dreams for a better life — a goal surely worthy of our namesake and her gentle, humanistic philosophy.
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