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" When I meet with graduates of the Boston Univ Training for the Future Program, or with ex-patients [ of state mental hospitals ] living on their own, or in residences and programs Moe supervises, and when I ask what they think made the difference, the answer is invariably the answer Rose has given me. What made the difference, they each tell me, was a relationship- meeting a particular individual at a particular time: someone who believed in them, and who promised to work with them and stand by them for the long run, no matter what, and through all the ups and downs of their lives. What made the difference, they all say, was having someone believe in them so that they learned to believe in themselves enough to begin to do the work that was bringing them back to this world."

Jay Neugeboren

Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness