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N ow Charles is making an even bigger impact with his award-winning “Work Ready” program that provides recovery support, helping addicts get driver’s licenses, documents they need for work, and more. STAND, Inc. also focuses on clinical work and their recovery programs. With 18 members on the staff, counseling and psychiatric appointments are provided along with the recovery programs. “Focus on hope instead of the stigma. Just because
you’re an addict and used at one point doesn’t mean you’ll always use,” he says. Charles points to himself and other clients whom the program has helped as examples. Charles Sperling is a humble man and maintains he isn’t perfect. However, his ups and downs on the road of recovery taught him to weather the storms of his professional life. His goals seem to be both personal and professional, seeking to help more addicts in need. Expanding and replicating STAND, Inc. is his dream: to provide all its services in office locations across metropolitan Atlanta. With a lively wit and a kind word, this man started STAND, Inc. with one other person and turned it into the place of hope it is today. It’s a story that’s the same as many addicts’, his with a happy ending. He tries to give all his clients a chance to have that happy ending, too.
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