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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Request that the Board of County Commissioners approve the use of $5,000 from the
Confiscated Trust Funds to support the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
OBJECTIVE: To request that the Board approve the use of $5,000 to support the Hazelden
Betty Ford Foundation.
CONSIDERATION: The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation by virtue of Section 932.7055 (5)(c) 1
Florida Statutes is seeking Board authorization for the appropriation of funds for support of the
alcohol and drug addiction treatment. The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has applied to the
Sheriff for appropriation. The CCSO requests Board approval to appropriate $5,000 to support
the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
Some of the purposes of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation are:
- Inpatient, outpatient, and post-treatment addiction programs for adults and youth
- Patients receive individualize programming determined by a team of professionals
- Medication assisted help for prescription drug dependence
The CCSO requests $5,000 from the Confiscated Trust Funds to be used to support their
purposes. This support will benefit the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation mission.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds are available within the Confiscated Trust Fund to support this
appropriation.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT: None.
RECOMMENDATION: That the Board of County Commissioners approves the appropriation of
$5,000 from the Confiscated Trust Funds for support the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
PREPARED BY: Andrea Marsh,Finance Director
APPROVED BY: Kevin Rambosk, Sheriff
DATE: January 5, 2015
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 16.1611612.
Item Summary: Request that the Board of County Commissioners approve the use of
$5,000 from the Confiscated Trust Funds to support the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
Meeting Date: 1/27/2015
Prepared By
Name: BrockMaryJo
Title: Executive Secretary to County Manager, County Managers Office
1/13/2015 9:59:32 AM
Submitted by
Title: Executive Secretary to County Manager, County Managers Office
Name: BrockMaryJo
1/13/2015 9:59:33 AM
Approved By
Name: KlatzkowJeff
Title: County Attorney,
Date: 1/14/2015 11:07:06 AM
Name: TeachScott
Title: Deputy County Attorney, County Attorney
Date: 1/15/2015 8:45:51 AM
Name: IsacksonMark
Title: Director-Corp Financial and Mngmt Svs, Office of Management&Budget
Date: 1/15/2015 9:19:37 AM
Name: OchsLeo
Title: County Manager, County Managers Office
Date: 1/19/2015 6:56:35 PM
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Dear Kevin,
As the holiday season approaches,I'm writing to ask for your help. You can make sure no
child has a holiday season like the one Kristi had the year she saved the lives of her mother,
brother and sister.She was just 15.
A TERRIFYING CROSS-COUNTRY DRIVE
That year,Kristi's family spent Christmas in Lexington,Ky.Her mom,Amy,planned to drive
home to Forest Lake,Mimi with the children,while her husband,a pastor,traveled elsewhere
for work.
They weren't on the road long before Kristi realized something was very wrong.Her mom
seemed seriously sick;she was swerving dangerously all over the road.Kristi's younger siblings
were in the back seat,and she knew she had to do something.
Kristi had earned her learner's permit about a month earlier."I wasn't a very good driver,
but I said,`Mom,you have to let me drive.
"I went into survival mode.I knew we would die if my mom kept driving.I had to become
the mom for a little while."
Thanks to Kristi's courage,they made the 15-hour drive home safely with Kristi at the wheel
and Amy passed out in the seat next to her.A month or two later,Amy went to Hazelden at
Center City for an assessment and was admitted to treatment for alcohol addiction.
Today,Amy has been sober seven years.Thanks to contributions from
generous donors like you,she and her family were rescued from a life-threatening
struggle with alcoholism.
As the Director of Clinical Services at the Women's Recovery Center in Center City,I have
heard so many stories about women like Amy who hide their addictions,who can't bring
themselves to get the help they desperately need to save themselves and their families.
THE PERFECT WIFE AND MOTHER
Amy was a model mom for years before she began drinking.She was a busy pastor's wife,
church music director,mother of three beautiful children and stalwart member of the parish.
She kept dozens of balls up in the air without breaking a sweat.
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If you,or a woman you love,have experienced the compassionate care—physical,spiritual
and emotional—that we offer in our women's treatment programs,then you know how
miraculous the results can be.
Today,Amy is seven sober years into a strong recovery program.She is happily remarried.
She has repaired her relationships with her children.
But that wasn't enough for Amy.Her life was so transformed by her treatment at Hazelden
that she felt she had to pay forward the caring help she received.She enrolled in—and
completed—the master's program at Hazelden's Graduate School of Addiction Studies.
And now you can find her most any day of the week on Hazelden's Center City campus,
counseling patients who are battling addiction,sharing her personal experiences and offering
hope.
As her daughter,ICristi,now 22,says,"She's an inspiration.You can use the darkest parts of
your life to bring the greatest light to other people.There's so much beauty in that?
Join Amy in bringing that light to women in need this holiday season.Please send in your
check today.
With sincerest thanks,
.44010....A4gArieff—Ni
Sheila Murphy
Director,Clinical Services,Betty Ford Women's Recovery Center
P.S.Remember—we must receive your gift before December gi in order to use it
for women's patient aid next year!Don't wait another minute to complete the
enclosed form and send it in!
P.P.S. Women face so many barriers to receiving the treatment they need.Let's make sure their
financial situation isn't one of them!You've given before.Please give again.
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