Help Create a Fresh Start by Supporting Our Sharing and Caring Program
Our Sharing and Caring program exists for one simple reason: the basics matter.
Project Turnabout invites you to support our Annual Dignity Drive.
Picture entering recovery with nothing but the clothes on your back. After a harrowing journey, that first warm shower feels like relief. Now imagine how much more comforting it would be with your own shampoo and conditioner. That is the dignity your support can provide…a true fresh start.
Project Turnabouts Dignity Drive is our effort to make sure our residents have a fresh and clean start when they enter our program. Oftentimes we have clients who come from situations where they do not have some of the bare necessities for self-care.
Research consistently shows that access to basic hygiene items plays a meaningful role in engaging in the treatment process. Studies on trauma and recovery find that establishing simple self-care routines, like showering, washing hair, or using person hygiene products, help restore a sense of stability during a very destabilized time. (Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992)
Public Health research shows that a lack of access to pads or tampons increases shame, depression, and social withdrawal, while access to the products improves self-esteem and daily functioning. (Johnston-Robledo & Chrisler, 2013, Psychology of Women Quarterly)
While our clients can access these necessities at Project Turnabout, your donations make them available for free to our clients and provide them with their own hygiene products, helping reinforce the psychological stability simple self-care routines can offer.
If you would like to donate items to Project Turnabout, we are accepting items at our front desk between now and December 31st. See the list of items below. If you would like to donate money that we will use to provide our clients with hygiene products that will help renew their sense of dignity, you can click the button below and choose “Sharing and Caring” on the donation form.
In surveys of people entering recovery programs, over 60 percent report feeling ashamed or “less than” because they lacked toiletries during the hardest moments of their lives. When those basic needs are met, self-reported dignity and motivation rise almost immediately. (Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992)
Your donation may lead to the first moment someone feels human again.
We are currently collecting items such as:
• Shampoo and conditioner
• Body wash and bar soap
• Toothbrushes and toothpaste
• Deodorant
• Lotion
• Hairbrushes and combs
• Pads and tampons
• Razors and shaving cream
• Socks, gloves, and warm basics
• Journals, pens, and small comfort items
In-kind donations can be dropped off at our Granite Falls campus or mailed to:
Project Turnabout
PO Box 116
Granite Falls, MN 56241
Thank you for caring. Your generosity becomes someone’s first moment of hope—and the beginning of their fresh start.
If you prefer to give financially, you can make an online donation and simply note that you would like your gift directed to our Sharing and Caring program. Every dollar helps us stock the essentials that help someone feel human again.
