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Original source: Rapid Growth · October 4, 2018 · West Michigan
Jaime Counterman first attended a Healing Hearts Breakfast in 2016. In a Rapid Growth interview two years later, she remembered leaving with a question: what else could she do? She joined the board that year, became a Grand Rapids Community Board co-chair in 2017 and later stepped into the director’s role.
Counterman had experienced a death when she was young. In the interview, she connected that experience to her hope that children in West Michigan could find compassionate support. An event that introduced her to the program had become the beginning of an ongoing commitment.
Another account of the people behind the breakfast is The Ellis Family Shares Its Story Before the Healing Hearts Breakfast.