For years, Deaundre Rice waged war with himself — battling alcohol and drug problems as well as mental illness — until bottoming out four years ago.
“I lost my job. My wife divorced me,” the Berkeley resident said. “I was in a tailspin.”
In late 2007, homeless and abusing drugs again, he found a new program to help those in Alameda County who were homeless and living with psychiatric disorders. Rice, tired of bouncing from shelter to psychiatric hospital to shelter, applied for help. Story continues here ➤