Angels in Motion helps those who struggle with addiction by talking to them and most importantly not forcing them into treatment.
Carol Rostucher of Angels in Motion, a organization that helps spread awareness and going to the streets to help those struggling with addiction, spoke to the Covering Addiction class at Temple University about what she does including just simply talking and giving food to the people with their addiction and that are homeless.
Hearing Rostucher talking about what she does made me think about how I wish there were more people like her. What she does for the people of addiction is incredible. She gives them love and care. The class also learned about the dark sides of what she does and that was hard to hear, but she didn’t shy away from the reality. Those struggling with addiction need an ID to enter a recovery place. To me, this doesn’t make sense to me. Why should an ID stand in the way of person trying to get help?
Overall, this was a person that a class needed to hear. Angels in Motion is a good organization that gives love and care to the people with addiction.
Valerie McIntyre is a senior at Temple University majoring in Media Studies and Production. She is passionate about mental health and writes about her own recovery from an eating disorder. She started her college journey at the Community College of Philadelphia where she graduated in 2016 with her Associates in Mass Media. With the intention to major in Journalism, she fell in love with Media Studies and Production at Temple University where she could exercise both interests in journalism and Television News Production. She also passionate about music which led to an online music magazine called Beyond the Stage where she is a writer and photographer. She also produced and directed a documentary called Theater of Chaos: The Philly Punk Story which focuses on the punk music scene in Philadelphia. She loves to write stories and loves writing her own scripts for film and television. She freelances for the Temple News and contributed news packages for Temple Update. She sees herself as a multimedia storyteller. She hopes to continue her advocacy in mental health awareness and pursue a career in TV News Production as producer, photographer, and video editor. Contact Valerie at [email protected].
In this special topics course, a group of students from Temple University’s Department of Journalism in the Klein College of Media and Communication spends a full semester reporting on addiction solutions. Click here to see the syllabus for the Spring 2018 semester, and here to see the syllabus for 2017.
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