When James came home from college after his third year, we found out he was using drugs, heroin. And that was like mind-blowing. And so, we don't know anything about that. We didn't know anything about treatment centers or drug use. And we made a call to our local parish priest, Father Mickey, who immediately said, "You have to go to Hope House." And then this is where it really, I guess we ended up at Hope House because James was at his lowest point in Florida, homeless and living under a bridge. And my son and son-in-law flew down there and literally dragged him to one last treatment center which naturally failed and then he came home and then we knew he needed to be in Hope House.

So, what's different about Hope House for me is that it's faith-based and it treats the whole person, not just the addict, and it's a community of men who look out for each other even after they graduate. In fact, James' continued success is rooted in his connection with Hope House to this day. And here with how they set things up, rules, regulations, go to church. It had then deal with you know the fact that if you get outside of this, there are rules and that you have to follow that you know you set up a schedule and you commit to it and you do it and it gave them a little regimentation to not that I want to say this is the army or anything but it I think it really helped them deal with the boredom and the downtime in life that they wouldn't just immediately go use drugs that it, you know, it had them, you know, get into a better mindset that there are other things that I could do.

Thanks to Father Frank, he was able to finish college because he came out after his third year, go to law school, graduate at the top of his class, land a great job, and then he found and met his wife here, and has not only a beautiful wife, but two beautiful children, one you saw earlier.

Yeah. Congratulations. We're incredibly blessed and it's an absolute joy. So, I thank God every day for Father Frank and Hope House. Actually, it's really easy after what we've been through and we embrace people asking us questions and offering help to other parents. We had no idea when, you know, we found James using drugs. Zero. We, you know, naive. Well, it changed our whole family. It was it didn't just change James. It changed his siblings. It changed us incredibly.

And in the end, we're all better off for having gone through it because we wouldn't be the family. We wouldn't be as tight as we are today if we didn't go through what we went through. And the key word is change because we had to change how we dealt with James. It couldn't be the same old same old.

And you know, the day I had to kick my son out of my house was the worst day. Tears. I mean, couldn't believe this. So, it's unimaginable.