Welcome to Behind the Walls at Breakthru House

by Melanie Storrusten, LCSW, Clinical Coordinator

Welcome to Breakthru House!

We are excited to establish a bigger presence on the world wide web! We want our blog to be a way for potential clients, alumni, family members, volunteers, donors, board members, church liaisons and other friends of Breakthru to keep up with what is going on here. We are a small family of staff, and rely so heavily on all the awesome people who freely give of their time and talents and care about our clients! We know that our volunteers, donors, and supporters give because they truly care about these ladies and about the ways in which their lives are changing through the hard work they are doing at Breakthru House. We are also a very unique place, because unlike other organizations, many times friends of Breakthru can't see the full picture due to the confidentiality requirements of the therapeutic work that is happening behind our walls. So, our hope is to utilize this blog to give you a peek into what daily life at Breakthru entails, and to share as much of the miracles that happen here as we can, without breaking anyone's confidentiality or anonymity.

Our clients are also excited about our new online venture, and they may volunteer from time to time to provide content for our blog. This will always be done with their very specific written consent as to what will be published, and how they will be identified.

Please let us know what you would like to see on our blog! You can comment here, subscribe to us, add us on facebook, visit our website, etc. We hope that the internet will prove to be a valuable tool in connecting all of our available resources to our clients' needs and then back again, bringing us full circle. We could not accomplish our mission without all of you!

Thank you, and welcome!