Coat Drive for HOMELESS

Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center is a FREE, Nonprofit (501C3), behavioral, outpatient addiction treatment center on Chicago's West Side. We cater to homeless and formerly incarcerated populations who do not have access to the state-of-the-art compassionate, non-judgemental harm-reduction services that we offer. Our populations can break the cycle of relapse by uncovering their purpose and meaning in life (Logotherapy) so that they can learn to self-navigate their lives to achieve their own, chosen destinies.

Our facility is gorgeous but it pales in comparison to the beauty of the patients and their reclaimed lives. We have seven, open mutual help process groups, which include: AA (and varieties of 12 steps), SMART Recovery, Recovery Dharma, Men for Sobriety, Women for Sobriety, LifeRing, and WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan). Our clinical protocol offers 30 process groups that each deal with an evidence-based, research-supported, addiction-related subject matter, such as: Death and Dying Anxiety, Rage Reduction, Street Yoga, Acupuncture, Joke Therapy, REBT, Soul Train Dance Therapy, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Loneliness Alleviation, Mindfulness Relapse Prevention, Women's Trauma, Improv Therapy, Spirituality of Imperfection, Horticultural Therapy and many more.

THEY NEED COATS!

That is why we need your help, because our alternative funding sources will cover the therapies we provide and not the warm clothing that they so badly need in the wintertime.

We make this clothing (not only warm coats of every size including huge to tiny (and children sizes) available to patients who walk through our doors and we also drive around handing them out to encampments of homeless people. We do this on an ongoing basis so any sustained help will really be appreciated by the people who receive the warm clothing.

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of all donations turn into warm clothing. Not one penny goes to any other expense of overhead! We actually end up supplementing any shortfalls as long as it is not too substantial.

TOURS of our facility and programs are WELCOMED and you will be shown one of the most magnificent programs that exists in the United States. We are one-of-a-kind and have won numerous local, state and national awards in our short lifespan.