Elizabeth's Story - I'm in Boys' Haven's Independent Living Program and as far as I'm concerned, the Independent Living Program is the best thing about Boys' Haven! Read More
Thank you to our Mentoring Program -
A poem from our Mentoring Program:
Thank you so much
For being my inspiration
My mentor and friend
My light and wind beneath my wings
Always a place I can go
To share my pain
My failures and successes
My thoughts and my heart
Only you have stood beside me
Encouraging and patient
Kind and always true
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Sam's Story - Now, I don’t remember much. I was three. I know I cried a lot and my mom was always doped up, but that’s not my fault. That’s just about all I remember…I cried and she was goofy. I remember how my dad beat me. I remember being shut up in the horse stall for days and days. It seemed like forever. He locked up me and my brother. And he did worse stuff to us too. I’m not sure I wouldn’t shoot him if I ran into him today. By the time I was six, mom had been gone a long time and I just couldn’t live with my dad any more. I told on him [to the authorities] and we got taken away. My brother hated me for that. Read More
Tom's Story. - Born in March 1986 in southern Kentucky. Put in state care at 6 weeks of age. Parental rights terminated due to abandonment. Read More
Cindy's Story - I lived with my mom until I was six years old. The only memories I have of my mom are a few incidents of her being beaten up by her boyfriends. I remember sneaking downstairs once to see what all the yelling was about and saw my mom covered in blood. I didn’t sneak downstairs after that. Read More
David's Story - When I think about why I like living at Boys’ Haven, one word comes to mind . . . stability. I guess I’ve always been looking for stability. I was only eight years old and my father died of leukemia. 64 years old at his death, my father was much older than my mother. She was 26 when he died. Unlike my father, my mother didn't go to college. She didn't really have any job skills and had no idea how to support four kids. Read More
Angie's Story -
I'm originally from northern Kentucky. One of my mom's boyfriends used to get me to do cocaine with him before I was even 12. He thought it was funny to get high with a kid. I developed a dependency on the drug and ended up spending time in a residential treatment center for girls.
Read MoreBenjamin's Story -
My Canadian born father came to the United States at age 21 as a jack of all trades - mason, welder, pipe-fitter, and carpenter. He was very intelligent, but he wasn't at home much. And when he was at home he was exhausted from the kind of work he did.
Read MoreStaci's Thank You - This is an actual letter slipped under the door of our Executive Director, Vern Rickert. Read More
