Addiction, Treatment and Recovery

$400,000 Grant Received for Science-Based Evaluation
July 29th, 2010 / Programs / John Boop
On May 21st, the Foundation was notified that the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation had awarded Betty Ford Institute a grant of $400,000 to evaluate the effectiveness of the Betty Ford Children’s Program. Working with the independent research organization, Treatment Research Institute (TRI) located in Pennsylvania, the goal of the project is to understand whether, to what extent and how, the Betty Ford Children’s Program disrupts the intergenerational cycle of addiction.  This two-year evaluation research project strives to achieve three specific objectives: Document the degree to...