| April 25, 2000
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this letter in
support of LifeRing Secular Recovery. Kaiser Oakland's Chemical
Dependency Recovery Program has been at 969 Broadway, Oakland
since May of 1995. Ours is a regional program, drawing
participants from Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and
occasionally from Solano, and San Joaquin Counties. The Oakland
CDRP offers four levels of care for chemically dependent people.
Our population is a mix of voluntary and mandated patients. Some
of our patients are struggling with addictive disease only, while
others are dually diagnosed.
All the CDRP patients are
required to go to outside support meetings. We offer traditional
meetings such as NA and AA. We also offer LifeRing for patients
who are not comfortable with the format of 12-step programs.
LifeRing meetings have been offered on Tuesday and Wednesday since
our program began. Last April LifeRing began a Saturday morning
group. LifeRing meetings have always been well attended but the
Saturday group has been so popular that at times we have had to
open a second meeting room to accommodate all the people who wish
to attend.
I am happy to state that
LifeRing has always been able to coexist harmoniously with other
support meetings. Patients report being satisfied with the format
and some say they attend LifeRing and 12-step support meetings. I
am happy to recommend LifeRing to any drug treatment program.
Sincerely yours,
(signed)
- Jeffrey Blair MS MFCC
- Day Treatment Co-coordinator
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