Addiction, Treatment and Recovery

Welcome to our new newsletter for professionals, Planting Seeds.

All of the Children’s Program staff, whether we’re in Texas, Colorado or California, consider ourselves farmers. Each and every day, in our work with children and families hurt by the insidious disease of alcoholism and other drug addiction, we sow seeds that we hope will take root. Some of the seeds may wash away; others may lie dormant for some time. Every once in a while one of those seeds will grow in a child’s heart – in that small fertile patch that hasn’t been affected by a family member’s addiction. And every so often, a seed will be planted in the heart of a parent or grandparent, the courageous adult who so lovingly brings their “little ones” to the kids’ program for help, hope and healing.

From there, a blossoming begins. Before long the harvest starts to take shape and form. We see ourselves, and you, too, as itinerant farmers. We work so hard at sowing seeds, working the “soil,” and praying for sufficient sunshine and rain. Often we don’t see the harvest—the fruits of our labor. We get busy throwing more and more seeds as so many people desperately need our help.

We ask you to join us in sowing these seeds of help, hope and healing. It’s together that we truly make a difference. May we all, from time to time, experience a bountiful harvest. Keep throwing seeds.

Jerry Moe
Vice-President & National Director
Betty Ford Children’s Program

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