Come out and Join us at Bank of America Stadium during Carolina Panther home games as we raise money for Battered But Not Broken! WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! To Sign up Contact Tammy. at (803) 385-2290 or E-Mail: batteredbutnotbroken2009@gmail.com
Support us by attending the 1st Annual Spring Banquet. This year’s banquet will feature speakers Shannon Gregory and Anna Pierce who will speak to the theme “Each one, Teach one.“
For more information: Conatct LeTanya “Tammy” Williams: 803-385-2290
“Le Tanya Williams’ 50 years of life splits into three discrete segments. She was 20 years old the first time she shot heroin. She was addicted to it for 20 years. Now she’s been clean for 10. She quit only because she went to prison, and there was no heroin there. She grew tired of hearing other inmates plotting how they would return to the crimes that cost them their freedom – only not getting caught next time. Once she got truly sober, Williams never wanted to shoot heroin again. “I chose to sit at the table that had the fewest inmates, and that was the table where the church ladies sat,” Williams recalls. “When I got out on July 2009, I was ready to hit the ground and start working toward my vision…. “I knew I wanted to make a difference and do something to help women like me.” Williams founded a Chester halfway house for abused and addicted women leaving prison, and she now also works as a peer mentor at a separate drug-counseling service in Lancaster. “Being clean now is so much better than what I though was my best day getting high,” she said. “Life is so good clean and sober.” Williams is one of many people and organizations on the front lines of the effort to help addicts caught up in Lancaster County’s heroin and opioid crisis, which has resulted in at least 17 deaths and more than 130 overdoses this year. Her journey Originally from Baltimore, Williams grew up a spoiled only child in a comfortable, middle-class family of educators. Continue Reading at the Lancaster News site.
“Former heroin addict Le Tanya Williams, right, shares a hug with Anna Pierce in the storage room of Battered But Not Broken in Chester, a program Williams founded to help formerly addicted and abused women transition from prison to the outside world. Pierce is a volunteer program coordinator for the organization.”