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Altar Lee on Adaptability and Accepting Help

2025-03-06T11:19:21-05:00

I have with me Altar Lee who is a previous client and also been a featured speaker at our annual Champions for Youth event. Tell us what was the moment of instability that brought you to Daybreak? The moment of instability would probably be my mental health. When it started becoming clear because I am a person who has borderline personality disorder. I am diagnosed with it. I've had it since I was little. Been in therapy since I was little. But it became a big staple in my life at the age of 16 which caused a lot of turmoil [...]

Altar Lee on Adaptability and Accepting Help2025-03-06T11:19:21-05:00

Daybreak’s Courtney Smith on Putting Yourself First with Kindness

2025-02-14T15:36:00-05:00

Courtney, tell us what was the moment of instability that first brought you to Daybreak? The moment of instability that got me into Daybreak was that I was living with my sister. I really didn't have any aspirations to do anything in my life. I didn't graduate from high school on time because I had to pass my OGT science and I didn't know where to get help to even have that happen. So, it made me come here and fix my life and figure out what I need to do to be successful. https://youtu.be/DslZ0KyEeNc  Did you end up completing [...]

Daybreak’s Courtney Smith on Putting Yourself First with Kindness2025-02-14T15:36:00-05:00

Daybreak Changed My Life

2020-02-10T06:25:59-05:00

There is an old saying that goes: “What doesn’t kill you, will only make you stronger…” So just call me Hercules. In my 19 years of life’s experiences, I have endured more obstacles than the average person has in an entire lifetime. My life first took a drastic change at the age of 9, when I entered the foster care system. I remember my initial reaction as being one of relief and nervousness. I was relieved because foster care was an opportunity for me to escape a childhood where I didn’t know what drama to expect from day to day. [...]

Daybreak Changed My Life2020-02-10T06:25:59-05:00

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