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New housing and a factory help struggling women get on their feet
Press Release
 CONCORD, CA – With success in California since 1998 - and having helped 150 women and 85 children in the past year alone - twin sisters, Karen Justice-Guard and Kim Justice-Meyer, are expanding their California-based, non-profit women’s advocacy organization, Safe Havens For Little People. full text
Former drug-addicted twin sisters help women rebuild their lives
Summit Press Release
CONCORD, CA – Twin sisters, Karen Justice-Guard and Kim Justice-Meyer, survived years trapped in a cycle of street life, domestic abuse and drugs. Karen’s experience took her through the high life with a multi-millionaire boyfriend whom she later parted with after rehab… an event that left her financially destitute. Kim was so consumed by drugs that she abandoned her children in favor of life on the streets. full text
 Effects of D-Methamphetamine
Executive Summary
D-methamphetamine became the predominant form of methamphetamine during the late 1980s and is now widely associated with Mexican polydrug trafficking organizations that clandestinely manufacture the drug using the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine reduction method. Like other types of methamphetamine, it is a potent central nervous system stimulant with physical and psychological effects very similar to cocaine and is known by a variety of street names, including “speed,” “crank,” “ice,” “meth,” and “go-fast.” full text
Program provides second chance
By Paula King TIMES STAFF WRITER
Deborah and Paul Spinola are utilizing land they inherited from a relative to transform the lives of women in crisis by helping them gain self-esteem and economic independence.
That relative was a victim of domestic violence for many years, but she gained the courage to leave the unhealthy situation. full text
Safe Havens is expanding into welfare-to-work
By Allan Lopez WALNUT CREEK JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
In a nondescript building just off Clayton road in Concord lies a factory where people are working to make pink, aromatic candles from scratch. The candles are collected with some other gifts–chocolate, bath oils and spaghetti sauce, to name a few–which are then put into a metal basket and wrapped with cellophane. full text
Safe Havens Gives Abused Women a Working Chance
By Michelle Pentz
Karen Justice-Guard has a compelling story and business concept behind her newly spawned Safe Havens for Little People, her supporters say. Now the challenge is to get some financing behind the Concord nonprofit’s vision: to train disadvantaged and abused women and get them employed. full text
Providing SAFE Havens
Article published in Inside UPS, a monthly magazine for UPS employees
“If I had to give just one reason why UPS chose Safe Havens for Little People, it would be the passion Karen has for helping others,” says East Bay Distric t Human Resources Manager Stefond Harris, who served on the Region/District Grant Committee. “She can personally identify with those she helps because she’s been there, and she’s rebuilt her life.” full text
San Ramon Woman Helps Rebuild Lives
By Suzanne Pardington STAFF WRITER
SAN RAMON – In the past five years, Karen Justice-Guard has kicked her drug and alcohol habit, left her husband, gotten off welfare and started her own business. Now she’s helping other women do the same thing. full text
A Helping Program for Women
By Karen Hershenson Times columnist
KAREN JUSTICE-GUARD has been through it all – heroin addition, and a beating so severe, “I had no face.” But she finally got her life together, and now all her energy goes into helping abused women on welfare reinvent themselves. “I didn’t know how to run my own life,” she says. “I made so many mistakes. My family was mad at me, I had no self-esteem. You can’t steal it, you can’t buy it, you have to earn it one day at a time.” full text
Addict Finds a Clean Way of Life
By Celeste Ward TIMES STAFF WRITER
CLAYTON – As far as schedules go, Michelle Schireck’s is packed. Every day on her September calendar had a note of somewhere she must go or a task she has to complete. full text
The American Dreams Collection
Jim Bickford, Author, Publisher American Dreams.
The life story of Karen Justice-Guard, Founder of nonprofit Safe Havens for Little People in Concord, California reads just like a script from a Hollywood movie. There is just one exception, everything here is absolutely true.
Once a Victim, Chef Creates Agency to Aid Other Women
By Celeste Ward Times Staff Writer
It was more than 15 years ago when Karen Justice Guard scrambled away from a knife-wielding boyfriend, running blindly into the darkness and falling 30 feet off a cliff. full text
Former 49er Bubba Paris lends his support to the Safe Havens cause
“Changing times require changing minds,” said Paris standing in the empty warehouse in Concord that will soon be transformed into the Safe Havens Product & Services Shoppe. full text
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