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The Orchid Recovery Center Joins Team Heifer to Fight World Hunger
“At The Orchid, we believe in the power of community in helping to assuage suffering and initiate social change,” explained The Orchid Recovery Center Chief Executive Officer Julie Queler. “Joining Team Heifer allows us to address the most basic needs women have.”
The Team Heifer program operates as an online grassroots effort, allowing “team members” to engage in creative, ongoing fundraising events within their circle of friends, business associates and relatives. Using a web-based interface, participants can recruit others via social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter (follow Orchid Recovery on Twitter).
Funds raised through The Orchid’s Team Heifer program will benefit Heifer International’s unique hunger relief efforts, gifting vegetation and livestock to families worldwide. Heifer International’s program also provides eco-friendly training for families in impoverished countries, allowing them to impart training and offspring to neighboring families in need, in turn. As villages become self-reliant through agricultural commerce, local families can begin to focus on shelter and educational needs.
“Heifer International’s model demonstrates the power of recovery—whether internal or external,” added Queler. “At The Orchid Recovery Center, we’ve witnessed this phenomenon as our alumnae take the healing they’ve received and make a difference in the lives of others.”
Built upon Dr. Karen Dodge’s “relational growth” treatment model, The Orchid specializes in helping female survivors of trauma overcome drug and alcohol addiction through interactive, peer-engaged support. The addiction recovery program also leverages trauma therapies, health regimens and alternative treatments in combination with 12-step traditions as part of a comprehensive rehabilitation center fashioned exclusively for women.
The Orchid’s Team Heifer movement is among a litany of philanthropic efforts the drug and alcohol treatment center has launched in recent weeks. The Orchid’s fundraising efforts span a host of charities benefiting women, including the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN).
Those interested in partnering with The Orchid can participate online at the Team Heifer Orchid Recovery Center page.
About The Orchid Recovery Center
The Orchid Recovery Center provides drug and alcohol addiction recovery services catering to female survivors of trauma. The center’s revolutionary program offers a holistic approach to addiction treatment, inspired by the “relational growth” model pioneered by Dr. Karen Dodge. With an emphasis on community and trust-building practices, The Orchid interweaves traditional 12-step methodologies with alternative therapies in an intensive inpatient recovery experience to help women overcome core issues of alcoholism and drug abuse.
About Heifer International
Heifer International works to end world hunger by providing livestock gifts and ecologically sensitive agricultural training to families worldwide. Assisting more than seven million families around the world since its inception in 1944, Heifer International's humanitarian aid efforts span 50 countries. Heifer International's unique self-propagating model mobilizes aid recipients to "pass along the gift" to families in their communities to collaboratively create local sources of consistent food and income. The nonprofit organization's inspired donation model enables donors to purchase tangible vegetation and livestock gifts at http://www.heifer.org for distribution to families in need.
