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H USING

Road Map To Recovery Family & CHILDREN

VETERANS

Services

LUCYHALL FOUNDER & CEO

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LUCY HALL: FOUNDER & CEO

RECOVERY: PROGRAMS & SERVICES

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FAMILY & CHILDREN: INNOVATIVE MINDS LEARNING CENTER

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

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LUCYHALL FOUNDER & CEO L ucy Hall, BS, CAC, Founder and CEO of Mary Hall Freedom Village (MHFV), grew up surrounded by addiction, not knowing there was another way of life. At age six she lost her mother to alcoholism, and later lost two brothers to addiction. Lucy, struggling with her own addictions. Gave birth to her daughter at the age of 27. Fearing she was destined to repeat the cycle of generational addiction that had plagued her childhood, Lucy decided to get help and entered treatment. In 1996, Lucy felt called to help other women and families struggling with homelessness, addiction, and poverty. Lucy founded MHFV in honor of her mother, Mary Hall, and started the organization in one apartment housing two women. MHFV is a national leader in recovery services and housing for women, children, veterans, and families providing a continuum of services to end homelessness, addiction, and poverty. Since MHFV began in 1996, it has served more than 15,000 individuals blossoming into a vital community asset. Lucy is the proud mother of two children, Mary and Christian and enjoys faith, family and fitness. Lucy has a B.S. in Human Services from Shorter University and is a national credentialed substance abuse counselor. As a current author of the book “Hope Dealer” and featured in a documentary “Hope Village,” Lucy also enjoys co-hosting the podcast “Hope Village Podcast” which all can be enjoyed by joining us on Facebook Live, YouTube, or by Apple Podcast and visiting www. HopeVillageProject.com.

Everything I’ve ever needed to start Mary Hall and everything I needed as I journey through the life of Mary Hall has always come in God’s time.

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ADMISSIONS

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A B O U T U S M aryHall FreedomVillage, founded inJune1996, addresses the need for residential substance treatment services for women in the Metro-Atlanta area. In 1998 we began providing housing to homeless women, children, veterans and families. Since its humble beginnings of one apartment and two women, Mary Hall Freedom Village currently provides housing and services to over 250 women and over 80 children on any given day, restoring over 1,000 lives annually, and has served more the 15,000 women since 1996.

M ary Hall Freedom Village aims to meet the needs of women and children needing services. Without our sponsors, treatment, housing, birthdays, supportive services and holidays wouldn’t be possible. Please call for more information on how you can help.

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Road Map To Recovery

RECOVERY

The journey to freedom begins with recognizing the need for help and results with a healthy, drugfree, self-sufficient life. While at MHFV, participants identify the reasons behind their behaviors and traumas that led to addiction. Gaining new tools for recovery to live productively and free.

Our purpose is to work with every woman to develop a road map to recovery by providing wraparound services, to include day treatment,

intensive outpatient treatment, aftercare, residential treatment, recovery housing,

medical and mental healthcare, childcare, career development, and spirituality.

PROGRAMS

Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and by the State of Georgia Department of Community Health, MHFV provides comprehensive programs and services structured to fit each woman’s individual needs. We teach core concepts of behaviors and skills to remain in recovery. MHFV uses best practice behavioral models,12-Stepmodeltoaddressparticipants’ negative core functions, addictions and co- occurring disorders by making participants aware of their values, beliefs, thoughts, emotions and behaviors.

SERVICES MEDICAL HEALTH

Dr. Tommie Richardson, M.D., Psychiatrist, serves as Medical Director for MHFV. Participants also benefit from access to nursing staff at the Support Center. Women receive a medical assessment, a physical and psychological assessment. Participants also undergo regular drug screenings and receive care for any medical issues that arise during their stay. Mary Hall Freedom Village partners with a host of community healthcare providers to address primary care as well as mental health services for adults and children. MENTAL HEALTH Mary Hall Freedom Village Behavioral Health offers mental health services that assess and deliver appropriate individualized mental health care to participants with low to moderate mental health complexities. We focus on education of mental illness and strive to reduce the barriers that prevent recovery, successful employment, improved psychosocial function, and quality of life. FAMILY SERVICES MHFV believes that family and community are important and necessary for long term recovery. We provide education, counseling, and support to families impacted by addition, mental health, homelessness, and many illness of our society.

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Life after Colonial House Sierra Trago sees trust as key to patient recovery MHFV offers emergency, and H USING

Officially, as the utilization review and aftercare coordinator at the Colonial House, Inc., Sierra Trago helps clients find a place to stay after treatment. But in short, a big portion of her job, Trago says, centers on building trust with clients. Trago says that many factors in a client’s past contribute to their drug addiction. Similarly, these same factors, such as neglect by a parent, can contribute to clients being more hesitant to trust others. RECOVERY HOUSING RESIDENTIAL HOUSING Provides services for women and women with children with significant substance abuse impairment, and who, typically, have not progressed in a less intensive setting, or lack supports and require a highly structured and specialized environment. COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING Community Transitional “It’s their body language,”Trago says. “They won’t make eye contact, or are constantly moving in the chair.” Still, Trago says she loves the opportunity she has to make an impact on her clients’ lives. “They come in here, and they completely open up,”Trago says. Housing is designe to provid supportive living for women and women with children who have suffered from ddiction and Most commonly, Trago says she sees clients abusing heroin, alcohol and synthetic marijuana. Due to the inherent difficulty of obtaining reliable data, the Colonial House does not track the number of patients who relapse after leaving the Colonial House, Trago says. The majority of clients receive aftercare, whether in the form of a halfway house or intensive outpatient treatment, Trago says. homelessness, offering a safe place to rebuild their lives. T e goal of Community Transitional Housing is to allow participants the opportunity to save money to be independent in the community. transitional, permanent housing, to women, children, veterans, and families on a path to a better life. Our continuum of services enables each participant to identify root causes of barriers to independence.

“They come in here, and they completely open up.” -Sierra Trago, utilization review and aftercare coordinator at the Colonial House, Inc.

SOBER LIVING

Provides long term housing to women and women with children sharing an apartment in the community living independent of treatment, a life of recovery one day at a time. SUPPORTIVE HOUSING EMERGENCY HOUSING Located on Atlanta’s Westside, the Donna Center for Single Women and Families (DCW) serves as a 24/7/365 service center to address the needs of chronic homelessness and provide comprehensive wrap-around services for women, children, veterans, and families. The DCW provides a much-needed service in the Westside community including comprehensive assessments, case management, counseling, mental and behavioral health services, job readiness, and life skills training. Equipped to serve up to 40 residents, the DCW offers solutions for immediate needs as well as resources to help reach short-term goals and to feel empowered as they work toward long-term success.

VETERANS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING MHFV is grateful to partner with the Veterans Administration (VA) to provide housing to veterans and their families. Veterans Transitional Housing is composed of Elizabeth’s Place (EP) and Veterans Independent Path (VIP) which allows veterans the opportunity to regain what’s needed to live inde pendently and successfully. Permanent supportive housing promotes an environment that encourages women to establish and achieve goals focused on increasing self-sufficiency, improving life skills, and increasing economic stability. MHFV provides permanent supportive housing to 21 families both in North and South Fulton County. PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING

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Dr. Jeremy When It Comes to Our Health, Knowledge is A s a species we humans have had

a pretty tough run the last two years. We’ve been beaten, battered and bewildered by a global pandemic that’s proven both too fast to catch and/or too slippery to hold; seemingly one step ahead while we’re constantly two steps behind. In our desperate search for blessed relief we’ve generally uncovered more questions than answers and more problems than solutions. Reliable leadership has been lacking, and definitive direction in short supply. But we do have some real answers, we do have some solid solutions, and we do have some reliable leadership. Dr. Jeremy Willis, founder and CEO of Priority Toxicology Laboratories, is one of our dedicated medical professionals who has devoted his life and career to leading the fight in eliminating the uncertainty of our present, ensuring the sustained health of our future, and maintaining his personal commitment to education as a vital key as well as the primary direction to unlocking the promise of our next generation of leaders. Fascinated by the precision of science in general—and chemistry in particular—from an early age, young Dr. Willis applied himself to his earliest studies, going on to receive his PhD in organic chemistry from Tougaloo College before continuing his post-doctoral work at both the University of Florida and Emory University. This commitment to the rigors of scientific academia seamlessly dovetailed into generously sharing his gifts through education and mentoring, moving forward into teaching

in his chosen field of organic chemistry at renowned Moorehouse College. Following a decade of guiding young Moorehouse men and women to their most specific roadmaps of scientific success that began with terminal degrees of their own, Dr. Willis recently shared that his years of enriching and guiding young minds were among the most rewarding of his professional life. But of course his own family commitmentsmultipliedthroughtheyearsand his transition to the private sector eventually became both a professional necessity and a dream which need no longer remain deferred. Following in his father’s own entrepreneurial footsteps (himself head of his own construction company) in 2017 Dr. Willis created Priority Toxicology Labs to capably serve the growing needs of the greater Atlanta community with simple, clear and definitive direction- “Our goal is to help our community become more knowledgeable and ultimately be in control of their health.” And then just two years into his lab’s burgeoning success in that direction, the entire healthcare landscape changed dramatically. Whether we can consider it fortunate given our circumstances, Dr. Willis had nonetheless positioned his lab to be the rock which breaks the crashing waves of an ongoing healthcare catastrophe very few of us imagined possible. Continue on next page>>>

Willis Power

DR. JEREMY WILLIS

“When I consider the accuracy of results my lab produces, I always first think of my grandma as the one receiving our results.”

Transitioning smoothly from UTIs and DNA sequencing into the sudden and overwhelming necessity for Covid-19 testing, Priority Labs rapidly repositioned its capabilities to handle accurate testing results of up to 2K samples per day, with a reliable 24-hour turnaround time. One invaluable key at the time was the lab’s acquisition and use of ThermoFisher’s vital ORF testing equipment in March of 2020, in line with the CDC’s own simultaneous use of this vital technological resource. Always keeping his beloved grandparents in mind, Dr. Willis further explained his lab’s commitment to professional accuracy with his own unique and very human touch- “When I consider the accuracy of results my lab produces, I always first think of my grandma as the one receiving our results.” And Dr. Willis remains one of our most approachable and clearheaded healthcare advocates and instructors. When asked to best describe the most current need for community testing, vaccination and healthcare vigilance in the face of Covid’s latest variation, Dr. Willis shared this simple but crystal-clear guidance- “With a typical flu season vaccination, there is an actual small introduction of that virus included in the vaccine. But I want my community to think of the Covid vaccine and its boosters not as this type of introduction. Because it’s more of an ‘email’ to their body’s ‘spam folder’ which merely uses messenger RNA to simply ‘signal’ the body to any actual future introduction of this virus fromoutside. This is the key difference between the Covid vaccination and typical flu season shots.” Further simple, clear and effective direction includes- • Be Proactive, Not Reactive (don’t wait to get sick) • Get Tested • Get Vaccinated/Boosted • Knowledge is Power Although many now reasonably hope we’re seeing the light at the end of our long pandemic tunnel, Dr. Willis sees our future soberly if optimistically. He expects that we may all suffer some degree of ongoing PTSD-like symptoms after our long and stressful healthcare nightmare but that we’ll most likely be able to effectively deal with any and all future Covid variations much more in line with an average flu season run. And with men like Dr. Willis leading the way, we can all feel reassured that our refreshed path will lead us to a much brighter light.

I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, i’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.

MHFV offers emergency, transitional, and permanent housing, to women, children, veterans, and families on a path to a better life. Our continuum of services enables each participant to identify root causes of barriers to independence.

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Summer Enrichment Program The Summer Enrichment Program actively involves students ages 5 - 12 years old in activities to avoid the "brain dump" that can occur when a child leaves school. Our program keeps children minds and bodies active through physical activities such as Zumba and Yoga. Students are involved in fun filled educational activities that supports science, technology, engineering and math (S.T.E.M.). Literacy is a focus to ensure skills remain on target for the re-entry to school. The program emphasizes developing soft skills – strengthening peer relationships and ties with adults and developing persistence that can shape students’ motivation, increase feelings of belonging, and self-confidence. Our summer enrichment CHILDREN Family &

program is active during the summer months that school is not in regular session.

INNOVATIVE MINDS LEARNING CENTER

AFTERSCHOOL The Afterschool program serves children ages 5 -12 years old. The program encompasses a broad range of focus areas including academic support, mentoring, youth development, arts, sports and recreation. The activities that the children actively engage in while outside of school hours are critical to their development especially focusing on social and emotional skills. Children are introduced to gardening, one on one tutoring and many community activities. Our high-quality afterschool program generates positive outcomes by improved academic performance, classroom behavior, and health and nutrition.

Innovative Minds Learning Center (IMLC) is committed to meeting the needs of our children providing childcare for infant, toddler, preschool, afterschool and summer enrichment programs. Our credential educational staff create an atmosphere of love and acceptance for each individual learning style. A planned daily schedule, an organized environment, age-appropriate materials and faith-based activities are supported by the Creative Curriculum and Wisdom of Little Lambs and Rondo Fun Time. Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS) are implemented to support school readiness goals. >>>Visit innovativemindslearningcenter.org

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AD As you recover, you will discover that many of the so-called truths you were raised with and forced to believe are not truths at all. o ov , o ill i ov o o ll o i i o o li v o ll. Mental Health Mary Hall Freedom Village Behavioral Health offers mental health services that assess and deliver appropriate individualized mental health care to participants with low to moderate mental health complexities. We focus on education of mental illness and strive to reduce the barriers that prevent recovery, successful employment, improved psychosocial function, and quality of life.

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VETERANS TROOPS Training Reintegration Outreach

and Opportunity Program Services (T.R.O.O.P.S.) to address and meet the employment needs of our country’s military veterans, and veterans with families who are at risk of or are currently experiencing homelessness. • Enrollment and assessment • One-on-one case management • Active and ongoing employment search and placement assistance • Employment and career coaching • Financial literacy and planning workshops • Vocational training and industry certification programs • Leadership opportunities • Ongoing support and evaluation (30- 60-90 day follow-ups) • Outreach and support at 90-180-270 post exit from the program

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VETERANS INDEPENDENT PATH (VIP)

ELIZABETH'S PLACE (EP)

Elizabeth’s Place (EP) addresses the special needs of homeless female veterans, single and with children providing a community based transitional housing program. The program operates under a “living proof” system where staff experienced in case management and trained as peer specialist establish camaraderie with program participants and assist them with their skills, abilities, and income to end homelessness.

Veterans Independent Path (VIP) provides residential housing and case management services to homeless female veterans and facilitates their access to a broad range of services to include medical, substance abuse, mental health, rehabilitative, and employment placement. The goal of the program upon completion is every veteran should have permanent affordable housing.

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CAREER

WORK NOW Work NOW (Need Opportunities for Women) offers direct, needed opportunities for women through individual and group sessions focused on functional literacy, training of work-related skills, job seeking skills, grooming, hygiene and work attire, on the job performance skills related to quality of work and work culture and practices, financial literacy and management, attendance and punctuality. Work NOW offers General Equivalency Diploma and continued education and certification programs, Dress for Success is offered in partnership with Assistant League. Most group sessions take place in a classroom like setting and individual sessions are conducted in program staff offices on the main campus. FREEDOM ACADEMY Freedom Academy is a rigorous career development program that teaches vocational and life skills to our participants. Through this program, women follow a curriculum of intensive job skill training, mock interviews, resume building and more to prepare them to re-enter into the workforce. Our Freedom Academy partners include Coca-Cola, SunTrust, and Marriott Marquis and Assisted League of Atlanta providing services in a corporate setting.

DEVELOPMENT

Work Now, Freedom Academy & Troops

TROOPS

Training Reintegration Outreach and Opportunity Program Services (T.R.O.O.P.S.) is exclusively designed to address and meet the employment needs of our

country’s military veterans, and veterans with families who are at risk of or are currently experiencing homelessness.

• Enrollment and assessment • One-on-one case management • Active and ongoing employment search and placement assistance • Employment and career coaching • Financial literacy and planning workshops • Vocational training and industry certification programs • Leadership opportunities • Ongoing support and evaluation (30-60-90 day follow-ups) • Outreach and support at 90-180- 270 post exit from the program

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Many people suering from chronic pain fail to receive adequate treatment. Our first priority is to improve our patients quality of lifeby developinga customized treatment plan specific to you. Our purpose is to work with every woman to develop a road map to recovery by providing wraparound services, to incl de day treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, aftercare, residential treatment, recovery housing, medical and mental healthcare, childcare, career development, and spirituality. 770.642.5500 maryhallfreedomvillage.org The journey to freedom begins with recognizing the need for help and results with a healthy, drugfree, self-sufficient life. While at MHFV, participants identify the reasons behind t eir behaviors nd traumas that led to addiction. Gaining new tools for recovery to live productively and free.

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