The Foundation 's Village

Our effort concentrates on diversity in service and strength of programming. “implemented through the collaborative efforts of Foundation Affiliate and other associate Organizations. All devoted to the restoration of broken people, the uplifting of our communities, and the betterment of society as a whole.”

The Foundation now consist of national and international:

Collaborating Organizations

Degreed Professionals

Valued Advisors

A Trained Staff

Specially Designed Programs

Caring Volunteers

The Foundation’s Village™ Programs and Publications- designed to impact the lives of hurting people, specific programming focus:

Day Treatment Center’s

Group Home Facilities

Publication of Recovery Literature

Seasons Family Support Groups

Children’s Programming

Faith Based Counseling

Educational Workshops/Learning Centers

Adult and Youth Programming (Adult Living Skills)

HIV/Aids Education (National/Worldwide)

Current Focus

Our Family program consist of recovering everything that has been stolen from their lives, we seek restoration in the areas of physical and mental health, financial restoration, self-respect, completion of educational goals or by providing access to vocational training, while facilitating a journey of spiritual insight into their lives.

Working within a safe, peaceful, nurturing environment families and individuals can begin recovery emotionally, spiritually, physically, and to enter a phase of restoration.

The Foundation provides a uncommon dimension to Family Recovery by combining Addiction Recovery Group Sessions with the Season’s Family Group Sessions, Christian counseling, Seminars, Recovery Literature, Conferences, and The Foundation co-sponsors “A Choice For Life” (Audio Programming) to help the Family recover from the ravages of the "Family Disease of Addiction".

“We desire to restore forfeited hopes, dreams and desires facilitating the restoration of lives that had been seemingly destroyed due to the influence of substances both alcohol and drugs.” The Foundation programming utilizes the combined resources, efforts and information of collaborating Private and Governmental organizations throughout the United States and internationally.

Statistics and Facts

The Following information and statistics were taken from a proposed bill in the 109th United States Congress “H.R. 1789: Health Professionals Substance Abuse Education Act” (Rep. Patrick Kennedy [D-RI] April 21, 2005) [Emphasis added]

“Illegal drugs and alcohol are responsible for thousands of deaths each year, and they fuel the spread of a number of communicable diseases, including AIDS and Hepatitis C, as well as some of the worst social problems in the United States, including child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

There are an estimated 19,500,000 current drug users in America, nearly 4,000,000 of whom are addicts.

An estimated 14,800,000 Americans abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

There are nearly 27,000,000 children of alcoholics in America, almost 11,000,000 of whom are under 18 years of age.

Countless other children are affected by substance abusing parents or other caretakers.

Health professionals are uniquely positioned to help reduce or prevent alcohol and other drug-related impairment by identifying affected families and youth and by providing early intervention.

Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disease. As with other chronic relapsing diseases (such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma), there is no cure, although a number of treatments can effectively control the disease.

According to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, treatment for addiction works as well as treatment for other chronic relapsing diseases.

Drug treatment is cost effective, even when compared with residential treatment, the most expensive type of treatment.

Residential treatment for cocaine addiction costs between $15,000 and $20,000 a year, compared to incarceration (costing nearly $40,000 a year), or untreated addiction (costing more than $43,000 a year).

Also, in 1998, substance abuse and addiction accounted for approximately $10,000,000,000 in Federal, State, and local government spending simply to maintain the child welfare system.

The economic costs associated with fetal alcohol syndrome were estimated at $54,000,000,000 in 2003.

Substance Abuse and the Health Care Professional

Many doctors and other health professionals are unprepared to recognize substance abuse in their patients or their families and intervene in an appropriate manner.

Only 56 percent of residency programs have a required curriculum in preventing or treating substance abuse.

Fewer than 1 in 5 doctors (only 19 percent) feel confident about diagnosing alcoholism, and only percent feel qualified to identify illegal drug use.

Most doctors who are in a position to make a diagnosis of alcoholism or drug addiction do not believe that treatment works (less than 4 percent for alcoholism and only 2 percent for drugs).

According to a survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (referred to in this section as ``CASA''), 94 percent of primary care physicians and 40 percent of pediatricians presented with a classic description of an alcoholic or drug addict, respectively, failed to properly recognize the problem. Another CASA report revealed that fewer than 1 percent of doctors presented with the classic profile of an alcoholic older woman could diagnose it

Eighty-two percent misdiagnosed it as depression, some treatments for which are dangerous when taken with alcohol.

Training can greatly increase the degree to which medical and other health professionals screen patients for substance abuse. It can also increase the manner by which such professionals screen children and youth who may be impacted by the addiction of a parent or other primary caretaker.

Boston University Medical School researchers designed and conducted a seminar on detection and brief intervention of substance abuse for doctors, nurses, physician's assistants, social workers and psychologists. Follow up studies reveal that 91 percent of those who participated in the seminar report that they are still using the techniques up to 5 years later.

The total economic costs of untreated addiction is estimated to be $274,800,000,000. Arming health care professionals with the information they need in order to intervene and prevent further substance abuse could lead to a significant cost savings.

“It takes a village to raise a child”

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The Foundation now consist of national and international:

Current Focus

Statistics and Facts

Substance Abuse and the Health Care Professional