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Barbara Cofer Stoefen

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Barbara Cofer Stoefen is a drug prevention activist in Oregon and advocate for families. A graduate of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America's (CADCA) National Coalition Academy, she is an active board member on several coalitions working to reduce drug and alcohol abuse among minors. She is a requested speaker on addiction in schools, colleges, churches, and at community events, and has been featured in various media events.

While she pursues this work with passion, her background is in business and not addiction. Barbara holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and spent her early career in human resource management at well-known high-tech Silicon Valley companies. For the past twenty years she has earned her living as
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    Americans use t-shirts as personal billboards in order to advertise, celebrate, raise awareness, express belonging, and to show solidarity. We wear them with pride, and sometimes to show off a little. “Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt.” Sound familiar? How many of us have said these very words, or some version of […]


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“no longer do I believe that every man and woman in America has an equal chance — we simply aren’t born with equal brains. Not all people can pull themselves up by their proverbial bootstraps, because, as my friend Christi says, “We haven’t all been issued the same boots.”
Barbara Cofer Stoefen, A Very Fine House: A Mother's Story of Love, Faith, and Crystal Meth

“I don’t have to change anyone. Letting people be who they are frees us all, and my only job is to become the person I wish others to be.”
Barbara Cofer Stoefen, A Very Fine House: A Mother's Story of Love, Faith, and Crystal Meth

“I sometimes think the recovery community is a picture of what the church should look like. I’ve experienced the Spirit of God hovering in those recovery rooms as a palpable presence, bringing healing to those who struggle and who submit to their higher power. It’s my belief that Jesus, my Higher Power, hears those prayers, whether or not they know his name. His favorite people were, after all, the most broken among us — the outcasts, the misfits, the sick, and, yes, the addicts.”
Barbara Cofer Stoefen, A Very Fine House: A Mother's Story of Love, Faith, and Crystal Meth

“Letting people be who they are frees us all.”
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