Project

Families Facing the Future (previously called Focus on Families)

Project Description

Children of heroin addicts are at high risk of continuing the cycle of drug abuse. Parents in methadone treatment at Therapeutic Health Services participated in Focus on Families, a program to teach parents how to lower their children’s risk for drug addiction while avoiding relapse themselves. Parents learned skills to strengthen family bonding, encourage their children’s positive behaviors and school success, and empower their own recovery.