As Valerie McCray battled addiction, she was in and of jails and depressed with nowhere to turn.
“I was homeless,” she said. “My family had given up on me.”
After hitting rock bottom and what she calls the worst day of her life, she entered a program and left it a new woman with a new perspective.
“My heart was to help other women.”
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She says she was walking by her church, Clinton Chapel A.M.E. Zion, one day and saw a house on Whitehaven Avenue in west Charlotte. She got the blessing from her pastor to write a proposal for it. She did and he was all in.
The proposal? A nonprofit, Christ-centered recovery house for women battling homelessness and addiction. It’s called Women of Hope and Sisters for Life.
“This crisis with opioids is so overwhelming,” she said. “It is killing us. And …