When I came to Kansas City in 1990 and my focus turned from direct involvement to training people to become addition counselors and helping them to manage more effective programs. However, I’ve stayed in touch with the “hands on” dimension of recovery work by volunteering at local rescue missions and for other organizations that […]
The more time I spend with rescue mission recovery programs, the more I’ve become convinced that the most important gift we can give homeless addicts is community, a place to belong. Homelessness is a state of complete disaffiliation–being cut off from all meaningful and supportive human relationships. Suc cessful residential recovery programs actually provide a supportive […]
In the US, twenty million children are expe riencing physical, verbal and emotional abuse from parents who are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs. This is tragic when we con sider that childhood is the foundation on which our entire lives are built.When a child’s efforts to bond with an addicted par ent are thwarted, the result is confusion […]
