Southside Center of Hope is a safe and healing community where women can live with their children as they work to recover from homelessness, drug addiction, and the trauma they experience as a result of those two things. 

Our goal is to touch the lives of every woman and child who comes through our doors. We want their lives to be transformed and infused with a sense of self-assurance and freedom from addiction.

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Every office needs supplies. (So do homes - for school projects, toner, and an emergency glue stick stash). Make sure to cover the needs of your favorite office or home office.
Why We Love This Gift: We love this gift because it's the little expenses that kill you. Science fair materials add up. A beloved charitable organization can put more into program when they have enough ink toner, copy paper, and more. So lend a hand and send a card. A gift card is a great way to cover the needs of a small local  organization. Think also of classroom teachers who buy their own school supplies to cover kids in their classes who don't have enough. Members of the editorial staff of Give InKind are married to teachers and we assure you - this is a thing.
What To Express in Your Card: I thought this would come in handy. Thanks for all you do.

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What is the best gift anytime? A Target eGift Card. With no fees and no expiration dates, the real question is: who couldn't use a gift card from Target?
Why We Love This Gift: Whether as a baby gift or to replenish supplies around the house, to cheer up a sick kid, or help someone with prescription costs, you can almost always find exactly what you need at Target. We love this gift because it enables your recipient with endless options and the ability to purchase precisely what they need - no questions asked.
What To Say In Your Card: I thought this might come in handy. I am sending you so much love!

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Amazon gift cards never expire and they carry no fees. Redeemable towards millions of items at Amazon.com and also certain affiliated websites. Deliverable electronically and instantly.
Why We Love This Gift: We love this gift because it's appropriate for any situation. Let your recipient choose just what they need, when they need it... with ease, convenience, and endless options.
What To Express In Your Card: I'm sending you my love.

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Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child's Eyes shares the poignant and profound healing journeys of children who have found their voice and reclaimed their sense of self-worth. Each story reminds us that children have a unique way of viewing the world and shows how, with help, they can build upon strengths and deepen their resilience in spite of living in the shadow of addiction. In addition to the life-affirming stories, esteemed children's counselor Jerry Moe reveals how the healing process transcends the children and has a dramatic impact on the entire family system--especially their parents, giving them a new, deeper commitment to break the multigenerational legacy of addiction.
Why We Love This Gift: We love things that affirm the experiences of children in an authentic manner.
What To Express in Your Card: Editorial Note: We advise that when gifting a book to a child, the book be given to a parent or a guardian so that they can decide whether the central message is consistent with a tone they wish to set. I am thinking so much about you.

Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child's Eyes: Hope, Help, and Healing for Families

Provides basic information about drug and alcohol addictions and encourages healthy coping skills. Comforting book for kids in grades K-5 who enjoy drawing. Each page includes a one-sentence prompt for drawing. This book may be a little simplistic for kids who have already explored their feelings with a therapist. Please note that no coping strategies are presented, aside from the therapeutic drawing. Great tool to facilitate conversations between therapists and clients, parents, and children.
Why We Love This Gift: We love that this book encourages unstructured free draw around topics that are sometimes difficult to discuss.
What To Express in Your Card: We advise that when gifting a book to a child, the book be given to a parent or a guardian so that they can decide whether the central message is consistent with a tone they wish to set. I love you.

When a Family is in Trouble: Children Can Cope with Grief from Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Critters Cry Too is a fully illustrated picture book that explains addiction and feelings associated with this disease in a way that children K-5 can easily understand.
This book is a wonderfully created resource that engages children with illustration and humor in order to explain a difficult topic. The author tackles difficult feelings and answers questions that would surely arise in a young person's mind who loves someone who is addicted. The story encourages children to open up and discuss feelings.
Why We Love This Gift: We love this gift because it demystifies the subject of addiction to children living through a national opioid epidemic. Scaffolding conversations around these kinds of topic adds to the national conversation about pediatric mental health around addiction and recovery.
What To Express in Your Card: Editorial note: When gifting books for children it is perhaps wise to run them by parents or guardians to be sure that tone is resonant with family preferences. Hi love. I am thinking of you and sending love.

Critters Cry Too: Explaining Addiction to Children

Your old, destructive lifestyle is fading into the past and now you are a woman in recovery. What an amazing gift you've given yourself. So why aren't you happier? As sobriety takes hold and your head starts to clear, a wide range of emotions can begin to emerge--feelings that until now you've "medicated" with chemicals. Yet to stay sober, and to grow and flourish as a person, you must engage in healing and take responsibility for these long-neglected emotions.
<div>Beverly Conyers, a prominent voice in recovery, uses personal stories and informed insight to guide you in achieving emotional sobriety by addressing behaviors and feelings unique to the female experience. Learn how to develop the inner resiliency to face and process difficult, buried emotions--such as shame, grief, fear, and anger--while freeing the positive feelings of self-worth, independence, and integrity. Discover how to heal your "damaged self" by improving your communication skills, expanding your capacity for intimacy and trust, and reawakening a spiritual life. As you heal your wounded heart, you can free yourself to a life of self-acceptance and lay the foundation for a rewarding and relapse-free second stage of recovery.</div>
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<div>Why We Love This Gift: We love gifts that recognize the complexity of recovery.</div>
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<div>What to Express in Your Card: I want to be here for you. No judgement. Can we meet for a cup of coffee?</div>
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The Recovering Heart: Emotional Sobriety for Women

Hope for Children of Alcoholics offers a straightforward description of alcoholism, what Alateen is, how Alateen works, and gives personal stories of teens with alcoholic loved ones. This is a good book for anyone with a family member or friend who is an alcoholic because it answers all the basic questions a person may have, such as: What is alcoholism, Who are alcoholics, Why do alcoholics drink, &amp; Why is Alcoholism called a "family disease"?
It explains how Alateen can help and gives very thorough information in case someone wonders if they might want to become involved in Alateen. It explains the twelve-step approach, how to find or start an Alateen group, plan a meeting, etc.
Why We Love This Gift: We love this gift because we like to give families tools to support recovery. And we like to enable all the members of a family to experience all necessary emotions. Teenagers need support too.
What To Express in Your Card: I am thinking about you. Let me know if I can help in a specific way I have not thought of just yet.

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"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my  brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy.  Just take it bird by bird.'"
Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice. Readers will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block, and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading.
Why We Love This Book: We love this book because it is a fun, human, and engaging invitation to try writing for the fun (sort of) and the exploration (certainly) of it. It is a great way to get started writing and a lovely read.
What To Express In Your Card: I bet you write so beautifully. You are so eloquent in your description of things. There is so much happening in your life right now, and I wonder if you have permitted yourself the opportunity to sit down and record some of it. I am sorry for any pain you are in, but I'd love to lend a listening ear if you are comfortable sharing some of what you are thinking. I am sending you love.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

The groundbreaking method that upends current treatment models and "offers collective hope to families of substance abusers" (Kirkus Reviews), helping loved ones conquer addiction and compulsion problems through positive reinforcement and kindness--from the leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US.
Beyond Addiction goes beyond the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help someone change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical advice science has to offer.
Delivered with warmth, optimism, and humor, Beyond Addiction defines a new, empowered role for friends and family and a paradigm shift for the field. This new approach is not only less daunting for both the substance abuser and his family, but is more effective as well. Learn how to use the transformative power of relationships for positive change, guided by exercises and examples. Practice what really works in therapy and in everyday life, and discover many different treatment options along with tips for navigating the system. And have hope: this guide is a life raft for parents, family, and friends--offering "reminders that although no one can make another person change, there is much that can be done to make change seem appealing and possible" (Publishers Weekly).
Why We Love This Gift: This is a personal favorite of the editorial team at Give InKind. Full of wisdom and compassion, this book provides meaningful hope and support to families facing addiction and wishing to support recovery.
What To Express In Your Card: The journey is hard. It does not have to always be lonely. I'm here. I'm with you. I'm sending you love and support. No judgement.

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change

Every office needs supplies. (So do homes - history projects - say, mapping the Oregon Trail, that bright red toner cartridge, and an emergency glue stick stash). Make sure to cover the needs of your favorite office or home office.
Why We Love This Gift: We love this gift because it's the little expenses that kill you. Science fair materials add up. A beloved charitable organization can put more into program when they have enough ink toner, copy paper, and more. So lend a hand and send a card.
What To Express In Your Card: I am thinking about you! Keep on going!

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The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties.
Much like Zen, Chödrön's interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism takes the form of a non-theistic spiritualism. In When Things Fall Apart, this head of a Tibetan monastery in Canada outlines some relevant and deceptively profound terms of Tibetan Buddhism that are germane to modern issues.
By letting go, we free ourselves to face fear and obstacles and offer ourselves unflinchingly to others. The graceful, conversational tone of Chödrön's writing gives the impression of sitting on a pillow across from her, listening to her everyday examples of Buddhist wisdom.
Why We Love This Gift: We love this gift because we have discovered that in times of crisis, we are sometimes open to concepts we would have struggled to embrace prior to crisis. This book beautifully expresses that finding truth and beauty within the darkest times is possible. (Even if we'd give it all back to return to the pace where our lost loved one is, or the place we were happy). Making sense of struggle and loss is a universal struggle. This book reminds us of this, showing us we are not alone.
What To Express in Your Card: I struggled to find something that would help you. Something that would match the level of pain you are in and then salve it. Of course I couldn't do that, but I hoped that Chödrön could succeed where I know I will fail. Please accept this book along with my love.

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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Why We Love This Gift: Athletic footwear is necessary and also expensive. Kids who participate in sports need all sorts of cleats and specialized socks. Lacrosse, soccer and the rest. As people age, comfortable shoes make walking safer. This gift enables the recipient to choose exactly the right thing.
What To Express in Your Card: I just wanted to let you know that I am thinking about the minutiae of your life with love. I know you have so many things to do and keeping up feels frustrating. I wanted to help a little bit. I am always with you.
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H&amp;M is a great go-to fall clothing for all ages - offering fashion and quality at the best price in a more sustainable way.
Why We Love This Gift: Buying clothes for children and teens can be challenging. This enables the recipient to make their own selection.
What To Express In Your Card: I want you to pick precisely what you want. I love and miss you so much!

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Use at any Lowe's location or redeem online. It's the perfect gift for any occasion.
Why We Love This Gift: This is a gift that is useful in so many situations. When a new household is being established (as a result of home loss, divorce, or a recent move) a Lowe's Gift Card enables the recipient to choose the necessary items of their choice. It reminds the user that new beginnings are transitions and that they are less alone than they feel. For loved ones in the path of hurricanes/floods and wildfires in 2017, this gift card enables people to start rebuilding.
What To Express In Your Card: I know that there has been a lot of transition in your life. If you need help choosing or installing something, I can help. When is good for you?

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Families faced with the traumatic loss of home and hearth need help. Here are our top five picks for gift cards to offer immediate help.

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Families faced with the traumatic loss of home and hearth need help. Here are our top five picks for gift cards that provide immediate help.

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The holiday season is a popular time to sponsor a family. Whether contributing as a household, team, congregation, or individual, people work with local organizations to identify and connect with families in need. Sponsoring a family entails fulfilling a wish list or providing food, funds, and necessities to ensure a special season for them. Manage &hellip; Continue reading "How to Set Up an InKind Page When Sponsoring a Family for the Holidays"

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