A Veteran in Helping Clinical Director Wayne Allen uses life experie ce to touch liv s Wayne Allen has devoted his life and career to the “ eld of helping people,” and though he’s witnessed the depths of addiction and mental illness, he thrives o the success stories he encounters daily. It’s easy for an untrained eye to miss the optimism within treatment centers. After all, they are places people enter during some of their lowest of lows, to work through some of the most dicult trauma. Allen isn’t like that. In fact, he cherishes the lasting relationships he makes there, through which he sees the enormous progress and success many of the clients achieve. “It’s wonderful; it’s really great,” he says, “especially when people graduate from the program, and when they come back and let us know they’re doing okay.”
Long term relationships Allen says he rarely saw that type of long-term progress in his 20-plus years of work in an acute hospital setting, where he dealt with mental health emergencies, especially suicide attempts. He recounts that all too often, “you never really know what happens to the patients after they leave,” following a relatively short stay. is is not the case at Why Not Prosper, where Allen says he is able to see the progress up close as clients move forward in their journey. He is able to have a direct impact on that journey as well, through his leadership of sta and service providers and face-to-face interactions with clients. rough his own experience, personal and professional, Allen achieves a lifelong goal of being “instrumental to the people that can bene t from my help.” A
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