In this special edition from Productive Lives' Fall Celebration Dinner, host Cam Garven introduces Loretta Mazzoni, who knows Kensington from both sides — as someone who was homeless there for six years, and now as someone who helps others find their way out. She got sober in Kensington in 2001, on Stella Street, and now works at Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge, near The Rock in Kensington, where she serves in chaplaincy and helps connect people to treatment, prayer, and hope.
She talks about watching one person's recovery heal a whole family, about the thousands of success stories in Kensington, and about her simple rule for the work — meet people where they're at, but don't leave them there. There's plenty of dope in Kensington, she says, but there's also a lot of hope.
