Chris Atwood Foundation Inc

Recovery housing and organizational supoort - after a lengthy and expensive period of in-patient addiction treatement, many people are left with no funds or employment - so they go right back to the toxic environment they were in before treatment. To prevent this common pitfall of early recovery, the caf provides scholarships that cover up to one month of costs at affordable, substance- free housing programs. Recipients are able to move in immediately and begin the process of becoming self-sufficient.

Recovery awarness education - the foundation provides educational workshops, panelists, and keynote speakers for conferences and events. The foundation also maintains a small, curated list of trustworthy treatment centers and other resources.

The comprehensive harm reduction program is a mobile van providing free and anonymous harm reduction tools and counseling to individuals in active substance use, primarily those injectiong drugs. Through non-judgemental peer support, sterile syringes and other safer use supplies, naloxone, counseling, hiv and hcv tesying, and connection to addction treatment and other resources, the chr program saves lives, reduces substance use, and prevents the spread of bolldline disease. The recovery organization supoort program is also included here, which provides support for recovery organizations. Hope re-entry is also incouded here, which supports indivduals who are recently released from incarceration return to the community, and includes on-on-one peer recovery support.