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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 709057" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>Copa, yes, your understanding with Back on My Feet is correct. I think it is an amazing program, well beyond the running part. I knew about it for years and years before I joined..there are a lot of "do good" programs in running, and I was kind of tired of the whole concept...I felt like...how bout I just run and do good and keep them apart? PLEASE. But I started to feel more ready to deal with the homeless community, to do something, and after all the years and years of running it seemed like a new goal made sense. </p><p>I was hooked from day one.</p><p>A lot of it in my mind is the partner corporations, who are willing to hire from the program. And it makes sense to me that if some one will get up to run at 5:30 AM for months in a row they are probably ready to get up and get to work too. People in the program can see their peers succeed in ways that are logical. They get "mile credits" for running, for running in races, for volunteering. It builds community. My son misses community. He finds it with junkies and addicts under bridges and in squats, but it is toxic, ephemeral, based on addiction and instability and drama. Back on My Feet provides community that is always there, and based on a healthy, challenging activity.</p><p>The sticker is you have to be living in one of the residences they work with. That used to frustrate me because I always wanted them to somehow take my son in (my other kids have all run in races ranging from 5K to marathons with me, and its been good for all of us). But that wasn't to be. In the end, I subscribed to "you can't help everyone, but everyone can help some one." So I showed up. I support it. Next week I'll be at the finish line of a local 5 mile race handing out medals to volunteers and members and regular old runners who like to run in road races. I've never done that before, but this is a race that benefits BOMF, so I'm in. I believe that at this time I've gotten more out of it than I've given. I once was lost, but now I'm found, right, Copa?</p><p>Anyway, I think its a great program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 709057, member: 17269"] Copa, yes, your understanding with Back on My Feet is correct. I think it is an amazing program, well beyond the running part. I knew about it for years and years before I joined..there are a lot of "do good" programs in running, and I was kind of tired of the whole concept...I felt like...how bout I just run and do good and keep them apart? PLEASE. But I started to feel more ready to deal with the homeless community, to do something, and after all the years and years of running it seemed like a new goal made sense. I was hooked from day one. A lot of it in my mind is the partner corporations, who are willing to hire from the program. And it makes sense to me that if some one will get up to run at 5:30 AM for months in a row they are probably ready to get up and get to work too. People in the program can see their peers succeed in ways that are logical. They get "mile credits" for running, for running in races, for volunteering. It builds community. My son misses community. He finds it with junkies and addicts under bridges and in squats, but it is toxic, ephemeral, based on addiction and instability and drama. Back on My Feet provides community that is always there, and based on a healthy, challenging activity. The sticker is you have to be living in one of the residences they work with. That used to frustrate me because I always wanted them to somehow take my son in (my other kids have all run in races ranging from 5K to marathons with me, and its been good for all of us). But that wasn't to be. In the end, I subscribed to "you can't help everyone, but everyone can help some one." So I showed up. I support it. Next week I'll be at the finish line of a local 5 mile race handing out medals to volunteers and members and regular old runners who like to run in road races. I've never done that before, but this is a race that benefits BOMF, so I'm in. I believe that at this time I've gotten more out of it than I've given. I once was lost, but now I'm found, right, Copa? Anyway, I think its a great program. [/QUOTE]
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