{"id":6415,"date":"2025-12-17T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedwaysem.org\/?post_type=impact_story&#038;p=6415"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:01:49","slug":"i-made-it","status":"publish","type":"impact_story","link":"https:\/\/unitedwaysem.org\/es\/impact-stories\/i-made-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lo logr\u00e9."},"template":"","class_list":["post-6415","impact_story","type-impact_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-ride-united"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":6416,"quote":"I can\u2019t thank Ride United enough. In these times, so many people need so much and you guys see the people truly trying to help themselves.","citation":"Brian Myers, Livonia","topic":[287],"program_theme":false,"button_text":"Read More"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_impact_story_hero","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_impact_story_hero":{"kicker_text":"Community Stories","heading":" I Made It","summary":"Unpaid tickets held Brian back, but Ride United helped him restore his license.","image":6416,"cta":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"O\u00ed hablar por primera vez de Ride United en 2022, mientras me recuperaba de mi adicci\u00f3n al alcohol. Pude aprovechar los viajes gratuitos para ir al trabajo, pero no logr\u00e9 mi objetivo de conseguir un veh\u00edculo.\r\n\r\nA principios de este a\u00f1o, encontr\u00e9 otro trabajo y llam\u00e9 a Ride United para preguntar por los viajes gratuitos nuevamente. Solo hab\u00eda un problema: ya hab\u00eda utilizado casi todos mis cr\u00e9ditos de viaje. La asesora social me pregunt\u00f3 si ten\u00eda licencia de conducir, y no la ten\u00eda debido a multas impagas. Me recomend\u00f3 que me pusiera en contacto con uno de los miembros de su equipo para recuperarla. Tim fue tan excelente como ella me hab\u00eda dicho; fue muy comprensivo y apasionado.\r\n\r\nPens\u00e9 que United Way ser\u00eda como otros lugares en los que pides ayuda y te hacen sentir mal, pero no fue as\u00ed en absoluto. Era como si yo le estuviera haciendo un favor a Tim al permitirle que me hiciera un favor a m\u00ed. Despu\u00e9s de que Ride United pagara 99% de las multas, tuve que pagar una peque\u00f1a parte en Westland. Cuando sal\u00ed del juzgado, hab\u00eda medio arco\u00edris junto al sol resplandeciente. S\u00e9 que era Dios dici\u00e9ndome que lo hab\u00eda logrado. Fue liberador. Llam\u00e9 a Tim y lo celebramos por tel\u00e9fono. Me envi\u00f3 por correo electr\u00f3nico un vale para pagar mi cuota de restablecimiento y el examen de manejo. Llev\u00e9 el vale al centro, aprob\u00e9 el examen escrito y, el viernes siguiente, aprob\u00e9 mi examen de manejo.\r\n\r\nLa semana pasada, recib\u00ed mi licencia por correo. Estoy mirando mi rostro en ella, y \u00e9l me devuelve la mirada, y me siento tan feliz. Es surrealista no tener las multas pendiendo sobre mi cabeza. Ahora estoy alquilando un veh\u00edculo y me siento de maravilla. No se trata solo de estar libre de las consecuencias negativas de la multa, sino tambi\u00e9n de la libertad de poder conducir por m\u00ed misma; eso es lo m\u00e1s importante.\r\n\r\nNo puedo agradecer lo suficiente a Ride United. Fue su paciencia; llam\u00e1ndome y pregunt\u00e1ndose por m\u00ed. En estos tiempos, hay tanta gente que necesita tanto y ustedes ven a las personas que realmente est\u00e1n tratando de ayudarse a s\u00ed mismas. 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Es una bendici\u00f3n y les agradezco cada paso del camino.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brian Myers, Livonia<\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/unitedwaysem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brian-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"455\" \/>","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_our_impact","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_our_impact":{"header":{"title":"More stories like this...","abstract":"","link":""},"dynamic_population":true,"version":"1","topic_filter":[287],"program_theme_filter":[],"layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"version_4","story_col_1":null,"story_col_2":null}]}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I Made It - United Way for Southeastern Michigan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unpaid tickets held Brian back, but Ride United helped him restore his license. 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