The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has received a record $10 million donation, its largest in more than seven decades, to help the families of people receiving addiction treatment, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
"Right now, family members are an afterthought in care," says Moira McGinley, the nonprofit's chief development officer.
"And so now, from Day 1, when you call to get your loved one help, the response is different."
The donation from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation will kick off a $100 million fundraising campaign to create the new Hazelden Betty Ford National Center for Families and Children.
"Having experience with thousands of families, this is the kind of stuffinnovative ways of helping families and the whole systemthat I really dreamed of and wished we could always provide," says CEO Joseph Lee, who was a child psychiatrist before taking on leadership roles at Hazelden Betty Ford.
The fundraising campaign will include initiatives online and at facilities in seven states where Hazelden Betty Ford operates, training more clinicians in evidence-based family treatments, and scaling up family programs to be incorporated as part of treatment.
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