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Hope Academy to graduate seventeen students
Hope Academy will honor its second largest graduating class of seventeen students during the school’s seventh commencement on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 11am in the Fairbanks Recovery Center. Hope Academy is a fully accredited, tuition-free, Indiana public charter high school that provides opportunities for academic achievement, sobriety and personal growth for students and their families.

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Lab results come back negative
We are pleased to report that the Marion County Public Health Department and the FBI have notified Fairbanks that preliminary reports on the unknown substance delivered to us yesterday, May 13, have come back negative for harmful agents.

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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

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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After years of drinking and casual drug use, Tyrone found his own path to recovery by witnessing the hope Fairbanks had given his own brother.

“I watched my brother change and realized I was addicted to drugs and alcohol also and I wanted to change. He really helped me see that there was hope.” said Tyrone.

Although Tyrone struggled with the concept of sobriety and honesty for several years he has now been sober for three years and has a new outlook on life.

“I changed my attitude and actions and realized that I have to be honest with myself,” said Tyrone. “It begins with me and it ends with me and I have to be responsible for my decisions.
My life today is better than it’s ever been.”
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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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