Being able to live a life of recovery has been so good for me. I have this joy. I have this happiness and life continues to be good. To be able to help and serve is more rewarding than money to me.
Trent in with his first team of youth players. Love was the first player in Oregon state history to be named high school player of the year three times.
Central City Concern is proud to employ people from all backgrounds, walks of life and histories. Around half of our staff identify as being in recovery and have been participants in CCC services or similar programs in the past. Want to utilize your unique life experiences while doing meaningful work for our clients and our community?
View our current job listings and apply to join our team! Work at CCC. This content block does not have a preview. Trent Gay built a successful career and coached multiple future NBA athletes including Isaiah Thomas and Klay Thompson before his struggles with substance use brought everything crashing down.
Today, Trent is training to become a pastor, raising two foster children and uses his coaching skills to help people exiting homelessness find fulfilling employment. This is his story — in his own words. Previous Post Next Post. Satellite Locations. Emergency Care. Urgent Care. Safe Sleep Practices.
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Upload Edit Image. Twitter Render conversation Use html version Generate not embedded version Add watermark. Facebook Add watermark. Change Source Title. Get the latest inspiring stories via our awesome iOS app! Download Bored Panda app! Join the conversation. This was accompanied by daily readings of Islamic texts. On the fourth day, the "life savers" started sexually abusing Mohamed. Rape was common in the centre, and was committed both by patients and by staff, he says.
Everyone was crammed together in a large hall with sleeping bags, with ages ranging from 10 to There was no protection. The staff preached one thing during the day and did the complete opposite at night. To drive out the jinn, patients were sometimes given a herbal drug called harmala. Similar to ayahuasca, it induces hallucinations and vomiting with the promise of spiritual enlightenment and cleansing.
But it has been reported that the quantities given in rehabilitation centres often far exceed safe doses, making them lethal - particularly for children. I don't know if I got raped. I just don't know anything," Mohamed says. The last time he was given harmala, he came round in hospital. He says he has had stomach pains ever since. After being released from the centre, Mohamed learned to hide his sexual orientation for most of his teenage years.
But that changed when he met Ahmed on a secret online chat group for gay Somalis. They found solace with each other behind closed doors. After Mohamed fled from Ahmed's house and learned that his family was preparing to kill him, he made urgent plans to flee. Most countries will not grant Somalis visas unless they fulfil a set of almost impossible standards, for example having tens of thousands of dollars in a bank account.
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