Family Alcohol and Drug Free Network

When one family member decides to achieve recovery, every family member wins.  Children return from foster care, relationships are repaired, children grow and flourish, parents become employed, and family stability is restored.  When addiction is treated new patterns of behavior can break the cycle of poverty and impact future generations.

FAN is a partnership between CCC and 10 other homeless family treatment agencies:

• Catholic Charities – El Programa Hispano
• Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers (CODA)
• DePaul Treatment Centers, Inc.
• Lifeworks NW – Project Network
• Multnomah County Department of Community Justice
• NARA of the Northwest, Inc.
• Portland Impact – Richmond Place
• Salvation Army – West Women’s and Children’s Shelter
• Self Enhancement, Inc.
• Volunteers of America

The 89 FAN units throughout Portland are safe places for children to grow up.  Family Mentors teach adults how to resume their roles as effective parents, how to maintain a strong program of recovery and how to access the various ongoing supports they will need to become fully self sufficient.   

FAN programs literally save the lives of future generations through active interventions in poverty and self-sufficiency.

Impact
When adults come to our Family Housing, they generally have just come from inpatient recovery treatment.  They frequently have no or very few employable skills and they do not have custody of their children.  CCC studies in 2007 showed:

• Of 130 adults in the program, 56% were employed and the remaining 44% were in school or work training programs.
• 197 children are residents of Family Housing
• 57 children were successfully returned to their families from foster care and child welfare cases were closed for an additional 31 families.
• Of 61 families who were referred for services aimed at strengthening and improving family function, 88% sought services and reported positive outcomes as a result.