Families ACT! Launches 2009-11 Initiative

Families ACT! has launched a two- part initiative for 2009-11.

We will be embarking on an comprehensive Community Education Campaign to document the crisis we face, to represent the needs of our dually diagnosed population and to explore collaborative community solutions to the lack treatment options. We are meeting with County and City officials and scheduling presentations at civic, educational and faith-based groups to show our video and elicit community support for a residential treatment/detox center.

As part and parcel of this initiative, The Task Force on Co-Occurring Disorders, which Families ACT convened in the summer of 2008, will be charged with gathering data on the numbers of Santa Barbara County's residents dealing with mood/thought disorder and co-occurring substance use to document the need for a continuum of care and residential treatment/detox facilities for this population.