I AM WORTH IT

If I weren’t worth it I would not be here.  I am worth it in so many ways that I can even imagine and so is everyone else in the world.  I may think that I have no purpose in life and that all things I was doing at home made me somehow unlovable.  My […]

FROM TEARS TO SHEARS

My life began with a mixture of feelings - joy and sadness, warmth and cold, love and hate etc.  I was afraid and hurt at times as a child and I especially remember my dad not being there for me when I was growing up.  I began the slow and painful process of hateful resentment […]

HONOR GRADUATE SPEECH November 2007

This is stupid, I hate you, you don’t know me! Where’ s the party at?  That was me before the program.  I hated everything that was going to make me happy and I didn’t want any one that would interfere with it.  I am Sophia L. from Cross Creek Programs.
I just wanted to start of […]

Sobriety

My name is Brett and I am an addict. Before I came to Cross Creek, my whole life revolved around drugs. Drugs are all I thought about, it is how I got through my day, and it is what I lived for. Inside I was miserable. It felt like there was a huge hole inside […]

It’s All In How I Handle It…

My name is Madison and I graduated from Cross Creek in June 2007.
Looking back, I see all the amazing accomplishments I have achieved and am now proud to say that I did them myself. I learned the meaning of the saying “you alone can do it , but you cannot do it alone.” […]

THE CHOICE

My time on earth is very brief,
The things I do become a thief,
They steal from me my time to share,
They take from me my time to care,
Good intentions don’t mean much,
When I use them as a crutch,
I tell my family someday soon,
How many times have they heard that tune,
Someday is now and I must choose,m
To live […]

SEVEN SHORT DAYS

When we made the decision to send our son to Cross Creek little did we know what was in store for us.  Our experiences in Discovery and Focus have been truly life changing.  We would never have though it possible to over come the guilt we experienced when we made the decision to send him.
The […]

MY LIVE VOTE

First I would like to begin by introducing myself; I am Katrina, a pure, powerful, and simply amazing young woman.
A year and a half ago my future looked more like an ending than a start.  I was  a runaway basically living on the streets, what I didn’t realize was that I was running from myself.  […]

VALEDICTORIAN

I have been chosen to present to you the graduating class of August, 2007. I am 18 years old and have been for 8 months now. I want to express how important it has bee to complete this step of my life and for me to have the experiences I did. I can now say […]

MOVING ON

Moving on is one of the most important things. To start your program as a resistant, ungrateful, selfish and spoiled child, and move on to a self reliant, respectful, honest, and powerful young adult who handles him or herself with class and style.
I have made that transformation in my journey through the program. I started […]