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Wellspring Small Footprint Huge Impact

Sometimes donors are looking for those organizations
who will have the greatest impact on the most lives.
They would like to solve the problems of world hunger or find a cure for cancer.
We’d like that, too!

But our footprint is small.  Intentionally.
We cannot be franchised.
We work with one child at a time, one family at a time, one life at a time.
Our treatment, while professional, is also personal and relational.
The wounds our clients bring are relational wounds.
They can only be healed relationally.
Our staff must bring their full selves to the table.
They must partner with our families to repair what is broken.
Not through words alone, though we cherish words, but through
full-bodied open-hearted restorative experiences.

Our residential programs serve adolescent girls and young women.
Each comes to us broken, many with no hope or desire to live.
Their families are desperate and often exhausted from trying.

Here they find hope.

Each of our graduates out there now, having found her way,
is making an impact on everyone she touches.
She may not tell anyone that she once needed residential treatment
and a therapeutic school.

No one may know that she once did not think she would be alive
for her high school or college graduation.

Now she writes to us, and her parents write to us:
You saved my life.
Or better yet:
You gave me the tools to save my own life.

We like that.
Quiet.
One small footprint at a time.

written by Phyllis Beauvais, Wellspring co-founder