| CFC Number |
| 18965 |
| Address |
11015 Bloomfield Ave. |
| Phone |
| 562-906-2676 |
| Fax |
| 562-906-2681 |
| bwiewel@lacada.com |
| Website |
| www.LACADA.com |
| % spent on Administration and Fundraising |
| 20% |
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (L.A. CADA) We provide healthy living and addiction counseling that saves lives, unites families and brings the community together. Life-changing recovery programs including residential, women and teen services and HIV outreach. How do you help people in my community? We help people in your community by providing people in need of our programs and services with life-changing recovery programs. Furthermore, LA. CADA does not discriminate on any basis whatsoever. Services are available to all people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, age disability, religion, or as noted, economic circumstances. Health education and prevention services are provided at no charge. Your gift, whether small or big, would make a great impact on the programs and services we offer. Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse looks to raise awareness and funds for important community programs by providing an opportunity for individuals and businesses to become involved and support our services. Your support is needed because current demands for our programs and services are creating gaps in funding. With your support, you will help fill our annual funding gap in a time of shrinking government budgets and rising costs. All funds raised will support the on-going successful operation of L. A. CADA and its important life-changing recovery programs. L.A. CADA charges for treatment and court-ordered education services on a sliding scale based ability to pay, including a nominal intake fee to ensure that an individual is serious about making a change in his/her life. No one is ever turned away for lack of money to pay for treatment. Our vision for the future is a community where men, women, children, and families are treated with compassion and dignity as we work to fight the disease of addiction and HIV. Annually, the agency’s effectiveness can be measured by the over 7,000 clients served through their participation of the various programs and services offered at L.A. CADA. The agency participates in Los Angeles County treatment outcome studies, which indicate that the costs of unemployment and crime without treatment are six to twelve times higher than the costs of care. The State of California Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs notes that treatment results in people changing from tax users to taxpayers.How can I be sure that you will use my money wisely and won't waste it? L.A. CADA has three separate departments, Community Services, Allen House, and Family Foundations and 75 team members who play a vital role in providing services to those in need. The majority of staff members are full time, with part-time staff filling in at the residential settings on evenings and weekends. Each program has an administrative team, a therapeutic team, and a supervisorial team. In addition, L.A. CADA supervises student interns in the field of social work, counseling, childcare, and nursing from a variety of local education institutions. The President and Founder, Dr. Ethan Allen, a caring osteopathic physician in local practice for over 50 years, has been involved since the agency’s inception over 30 years. He has remained an active member of the Board of Directors and has volunteered his time weekly to provide medical services for the residents of the Allen House. The Executive Director, Brenda Wiewel, L.C.S.W., is a social worker with 30 years of experience in the field, 15 of those in a leadership capacity with the agency. She is a Past President of the Santa Fe Springs Rotary Club and current board member for the California Association of Drug and Alcohol Program Executives (CAADPE). Her coauthored article on the Family Foundations Program is pending publication with the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. The seventeen L.A. CADA board members represent a diverse cross-section of the community including political representatives, activists, business leaders, and concerned citizens. The agency has organized additional volunteer groups to address the needs of the community and the agency. There is an L.A. CADA Advisory Board, which meets biannually to review programs and provide community input. There is also a Family Foundations Advisory Board, which meets biannually to review and support the FFP. Finally, there is a Latino HIV Advisory Awareness Group, formed to bring together community leaders in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS. One of L.A. CADA’s greatest financial strengths has been the ability to provide creative, high quality, and effective services for over 30 years, despite political and funding challenges. The agency receives annual public funding through the L.A. County Health Services, Alcohol and Drug Program Administration and Offices of AIDS Planning and Programs and the California State Department of Corrections. In addition, the agency seeks annual grants from United Way, local cities, and selected foundations. Contracts with managed care companies are available as well as certain classes paid for by participants. Public funding sources have been cut back recently and there is the threat of additional cuts as budgets remain very tight. Thus, in order to sustain services and provide for growing community needs, L.A. CADA has embarked on a comprehensive effort to increase private support.Of course you may volunteer. One way to volunteer is at the Family Foundations Program were we are always looking for volunteers to hold babies while their mothers are in class. You can also volunteer in any number of ways in any of our programs. | |
This Profile was last updated on: 12/1/2008 | |
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