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Beacon FoundationHelping you live your full potential
The Beacon Foundation serves the Coachella Valley and the Inland Empire, California USA, by providing training and services for individuals with addictive behaviors, mental health issues, and addiction education needs.
The Beacon Foundation
is a not for profit that provides training and services for persons with addictive behaviors, mental health issues, and education needs.
The mission of the Beacon Foundation is to provide training and services for persons with addictive behaviors, mental health issues, and education needs.
The goal of SMART Recovery© is for people to achieve a healthy, positive, balanced lifestyle. The SMART Recovery© 4-Point Program involves building and maintaining motivation; coping with urges; managing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; and living a balanced life.
In the Family and Friends program, SMART Recovery© strategies and tools are adapted for family and friends of persons with addictive behavior.
Meetings are always free of charge and 100% confidential.
Specific Objectives & Purpose of the Organization
Facilitate Meetings
To provide facilitators for meetings for persons in addiction recovery and for their family and friends in the Coachella Valley and the Inland Empire, California.
Consult
To consult and make policy recommendations on behavioral health and addiction services in the Coachella Valley and the Inland Empire;
Educate
To educate and train behavioral health and addiction service providers in the Coachella Valley and the Inland Empire.
Resources
To provide free educational addiction publications for vulnerable populations in the Coachella Valley and the Inland Empire.
Raise Funds
To raise funds for the Foundation activities
Diane Vines
Diane Vines, a mental health therapist, moved to the Coachella Valley in 2016 after having experience in Los Angeles with the SMART Family and Friends meetings. She learned there were no SMART meetings in the Valley even though there are over 2,500+ face-to-face meetings and 28 online meetings Worldwide each week. She decided to train to be a SMART Recovery and Family and Friends facilitator. She started a Family and Friends meeting but soon learned that there were no SMART Recovery meetings in the Valley and soon after the Beacon Foundation was born.
Laurence (Laurie) Willis
Laurie is a retired Canadian businessman residing with his wife Jan in Leduc County, Alberta, in the summer and Rancho Mirage, California, in the winter. Laurie and Jan have two adult children and six grandchildren aging from 10 to 27 years old.
Laurie has been in recovery from addictive behavior for two years and attributes his success so far to support from family and friends and the Smart recovery program. He has completed his training as a facilitator in Smart recovery and Family and Friends meeting in Canada and the United States during that time.
Laurie is proud of his affiliation with the Beacon Foundation and supporting others who have addictive behaviors.
Ross Hawkins
Ross is an experienced business executive and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of a successful book publishing company called ACS/ARNICA Creative Services. For the past six years, he has been trained as a host for Family & Friends meetings with SMART Recovery. Additionally, he is trained as a Stephen Ministry Leader, has served in Kairos Prison Ministry, and volunteers as a Hospital Chaplain.
Suzy Weeks
As a Board Member of the Beacon Foundation, I look at this as an opportunity to give back, to encourage and to support those individuals who are working towards giving up their addictive behaviors.
Using my journalism background and fundraising experience, as well as training in Crisis Response, I hope to add value to the Board. The SMART Recovery program has been there for me with emotional support and practical, everyday strategies that are so helpful in recovery.
Since my retirement, I have participated as a significant fundraiser and donor for Kate Booth House, a safe shelter providing comfort, education, and training for women and their children who are victims of domestic violence.
As well, I have trained and participated as a Crisis Responder for Kids Help Phone – a texting platform, providing instant communication and guidance for youth in need.
Personally, I have had hands-on experience in dealing with crises, assisting family members with their addictive behavior, and recovery. This has given me an opportunity to use the skills learned in Crisis Response training, as well as making excellent use of the 4-Point Program offered in the SMART Recovery and Friends and Family workbooks.
suzyweeks@gmail.com
