Release Date: Nov. 6, 2002
J. B. and Johnelle Hunt of
Fayetteville surprised their daughter, Jane Hunt Hardin of Little
Rock, yesterday with a gift of $100,000 in her honor to help
mothers with substance abuse problems and their children.
The Hunts presented the gift to the
Arkansas Center for Addictions Research, Education and Services
(Arkansas CARES), a program of UAMS Psychiatry, in a ceremony at
the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Tues., Nov.
5.
Mrs. Hardin has been a volunteer
and supporter of Arkansas CARES.
The Hunts have made past gifts to
Arkansas CARES, the Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute and the
Arkansas Cancer Research Center at UAMS. Mrs. Hunt is on the
advisory board of the eye institute.
Arkansas CARES recently received a
prestigious Gold Award from the American Psychiatric Association.
The program offers intensive treatment for drug addiction in
combination with mental health care for mothers and children and
lessons about parenting, finding a job, paying bills, and other
life skills. Its leaders say the comprehensive residential program
is more effective at boosting troubled families into long-term
independence than typical drug treatment, which may consist only
of outpatient therapy, or prison, which forces children into
foster care. Women and their children live together at Arkansas
CARES while the women get "clean" and many learn, for
the first time, how to be good mothers. The program is an
innovative approach to breaking the cycle of childhood abuse,
mental illness, drug addiction, prostitution and crime, poor
parenting, and loss of parental rights.
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Contact:
Leslie W. Taylor
501-686-8998
Wireless phone: 501-951-7260
leslie@uams.edu
Elizabeth F. Shores
501-686-8394
ShoresElizabethF@uams.edu
UAMS
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