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Helene Cross - 2012 Richard M. Fairbanks Circle of Hope Award Recipient
Helene Cross, retiring President and CEO of Fairbanks, will be honored with the prestigious Richard M. Fairbanks Circle of Hope Award at the eleventh annual Fairbanks Circle of Hope Dinner, Tuesday, May 8 at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown.

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April is Alcohol Awareness Month
April is National Alcohol Awareness Month, proving the opportunity for prevention, awareness and education of alcohol abuse and addiction. Fairbanks encourages you to take this time to educate yourself and your loved ones about the dangers of alcohol abuse. Knowing the warning signs and symptoms of addiction could save someone’s life.

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Continuing Education

Continuing Education Programs For Professionals, Businesses, Organizations and Others

Fairbanks is licensed by the State of Indiana and the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) to provide continuing education and training programs for professionals from a variety of fields, including:

Addiction and recovery specialists
Social workers
Marriage and family therapists
Mental health counselors

First offered in 1987, these programs offer current, practical and research-based, theoretical approaches to treatment and recovery.

Susan Li Conference - July 19 and 20, 2012
Held annually, Fairbanks’ Susan Li Conference offers 12 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This is two-day event featuring keynote speakers in addition to best-practice learning opportunities focused on addiction treatment and recovery. Past speakers have included former National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism president Dr. Ting Kai Ling, Dr. James Prochaska, co-developer of the Transtheoretical model of stages for change, and Dr. Marcus Heilig from the NIAAA. For more information about this year's conference click here.

Corporate/Non-profit Programs
Fairbanks also offers educational programming for corporations, schools, mental health centers and other organizations designed to help better understand the disease of addiction – and how it may be successfully treated. For more information, please contact us.

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

Debra, a former patient who now volunteers at Fairbanks, says that the best thing she received from her time in recovery here, was when she left.

“I had to face life on my own, and I learned I wasn’t afraid anymore – I could feel the peace.”

Being at Fairbanks, Debra says, helped her find the woman she’s been hiding all these years. “When I look in the mirror, I can say I actually like this person,” she says. “I had to deal with all my emotions and stuff. Before recovery, my emotions were in a bottle.”

“My biggest thrill is talking with the other women at Fairbanks,” she says. “They think I’m helping them…they’re helping me.”
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Seth spent 30 days at Fairbanks before moving into La Verna Lodge Family Program, a 12-step, long-term treatment setting for men created to unite residents and their families in recovery.

“I had to get away from my daily habits and also focus on my recovery,” he says. “But I also needed a safe place to manage my anxiety about life, and a place where I could be held accountable to behave in the appropriate way.”

“After coming to Fairbanks, I realized everything kept on happening without me, that I wasn’t the cause for every effect. For somebody who was terminally self-important, that was the biggest lesson I could ever get.”
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David, a past patient and active volunteer at Fairbanks, was the recipient of the 2008 Volunteer of the Year award.

David works hard to assist other individuals and families, helping them understand that there is hope; and that the impact of recovery is real and powerful.

“I remember Dr. Tim Kelly told me to get in the backseat and let my recovery program drive me, and I’ve been doing that ever since,” said David. “Now, I’ve got my family back. I’ve found peace, I’m happy, healthy and I am complete. I have a sense of peace and serenity that I’ve never had in my entire life.”
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