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Each week and during summer camps, children ages six to twelve come to Cumberland Heights for special programs to help them understand what happens in their families when addiction takes over. They share with each other and enjoy the companionship during difficult times in their lives.
Recently, one young girl who comes frequently was asked how she was doing. She replied solemnly, "Daddy is home drinking on the sofa." Without a word several of the children surrounded her and gave her the beloved princess costume to wear for the evening. This is a safe place where children can share such stories and know they will be loved and supported.
This unique program is one of only a few ongoing programs nationally for children of families in addicition and treatment.
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Since its inception, Cumberland Heights has been committed to serving all who come to our doors. Often this may mean finding additional resources to help the family pay for treatment when personal resources and insurance fall short.
The Patient Assistance Fund can enable a patient to remain that fourth and very important week when the family joins in therapy and mutual healing. It serves those from the Middle Tennessee area who are being treated for the first time and are committed to recovery, but lack the financial means to access treatment.
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Gloria's story is similar to that of many other young people coming to Cumberland Heights. The family's resources were stretched beyond helping her, but a family member called with an appeal. At the same time Gloria was facing addiction and desperately needed help, her mother was being treated for cancer. There were no funds left to get the treatment Gloria needed.
Cumberland Heights was able to help through the Patient Assistance Fund. Here we believe chemical dependency is a primary and progressive disease yet can be arrested with treatment. For young people the progression is especially pronounced.
Young people at Cumberland Heights can continue their studies if longer term treatment is needed through on-site River Road Academy.
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Four times as many women die from diseases related to alcoholism as from breast cancer.
Two young women talked about their mother's recent time in treatment at Cumberland Heights. They said their mother wanted to stay clean and sober this time, and she was opening new doors to ideas she never let in before.
During the mother's stay in treatment, the family attended the family seminars. They learned alcoholism is not a choice and is a struggle that goes on for the rest of their lives. The children had tried to hide the drugs in the past, but they learned all they could do was love and support their mother. And all anyone can do is to take it one day at a time.
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