Sept. 12, 2024 – “My parents, my sister, my kids — they didn’t want anything to do with me,” she remembered. As her family withdrew, Hernandez-Coleman’s life unraveled. At 59, she found herself unhoused and losing hope.
“I was just begging God just let me die out here … Then, one day, while in San Francisco, out of booze and shaking from withdrawal, she saw the city’s red crisis van. A member of the street overdose response team, Britt Rubin, leaned out the window, waving her tattoo-covered arms at Hernandez-Coleman.
“She was looking really unwell,” Rubin said. “In crisis, more or less.”
They took Hernandez-Coleman to a sobering center, where she spent a few days detoxing. A flier on the wall caught her eye, advertising a 90-day rehab program called Friendship House.
“It was a big change for me,” she said. “It’s a rehab primarily for Native Americans. But they accepted me. It was very spiritual. Changed my life.”
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