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Hansen Foundation Scholarships
The Hansen Foundation embraces RECOVERY, for those who suffer from substance use disorders, their families and friends. The Hansen Foundation Residences, Serenity Estates and Serenity Houses, provide affordable, long-term, comfortable recovery residences and necessary recovery support to assist those in recovery facing overwhelming obstacles. In conjunction with the housing entity, The Hansen Foundation also operates Enlightened Farm, nonprofit organic farm cultivating a sustainable and healing environment for all and The Hansen Foundation Resource Center offering a variety of programs to help individuals in recovery plan, create, invent, improve life skills and make things happen in their lives.
The Hansen Foundation embraces RECOVERY, for those who suffer from substance use disorders, their families and friends. The Hansen Foundation Residences, Serenity Estates and Serenity Houses, provide affordable, long-term, comfortable recovery residences and necessary recovery support to assist those in recovery facing overwhelming obstacles. In conjunction with the housing entity, The Hansen Foundation also operates Enlightened Farm, nonprofit organic farm cultivating a sustainable and healing environment for all, the Enlightened Café, a gathering place for those in the recovery community to share food, music and recovery together, and The Hansen Foundation Resource Center offering a variety of programs to help individuals in recovery plan, create, invent, improve life skills and make things happen in their lives.
PROUDLY SERVING OUR COMMUNITY
Many residents go from receiving intensive residential or daily substance use support to the opposite extreme of less clinical appointments with little recovery community support. A safe, welcoming environment allows clients to access variety of programs to help individuals in recovery plan, create, invent, improve life skills and make things happen in their lives. The Hansen Foundation is a licensee for training for Certified Peer Recovery Specialists in Atlantic and Cape May County for Prevention is Key-CARES – the Center for Addiction Recovery Education Success. We provide the training that satisfies the educational requirement for the Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) credential as determined by the Addiction Professionals Certification Board of New Jersey, Inc (APCBNJ). The training, upon successful completion, provides trainees with the competency in the learning domains created by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) which include mentoring and education, advocacy and ethical responsibility.
The Hansen Foundation provides substance-free social and community-based events with safe environments to support those in recovery. Isolation can be an obstacle to sustained sobriety, so it is imperative that those in recovery are able to learn a new way of having fun and enjoying life in substance-free ways. We offer a combination of clinical and socially focused events/workshops that support recovery through education, stress management skills, holistic approaches to support recovery, social skills, and insight into ongoing knowledge acquisition to maintain sobriety.
Our staff assists with a variety of efforts to help housing residents find employment. We work with the resident to identify their backgrounds, employment strengths and interests. The staff assists with the creation of resumes, holding mock interviews, as well as transportation to job fairs and interviews.
We offer on-job training at Enlightened Café, Enlightened Farm, and with our construction/maintenance crew called Recovery Renovations. Our Solid Roots Employment program and various other positions provide individuals in recovery to work with consistent income so that they can develop their own roots and move with strength, confidence and skill to their next chapter in life. We also partner with several community employers who hire residents transitioning back into the workforce after treatment and sober living. Additionally, our Recovery Renovations teaches residents construction skills as they renovate and maintain our houses.
The Hansen Foundation Resource Center Staff are dedicated to navigating our clients with resources for integrated care. Our goal is to assist people in identifying and overcoming barriers to care; this can include connecting anyone to basic medical and dental care as well as to resources for mental wellness, chronic and serious medical conditions and treatment.
Many residents enter treatment and sober living with pending legal issues adding to the complexity of creating a foundation of recovery. At The Hansen Foundation, we know how to hold the hand of the resident to help them work within the legal system while they clear up issues from their past.
The Hansen Foundation also works with local and recovery community partners to strengthen our support network. By offering a strong network of partners that enhance our path, we can help our clients better connect with other forms of support to avoid relapse.
The Hansen Foundation provides support to those who desire recovery from addiction, however financial barriers sometimes limit those from seeking the help or maintaining successful sobriety. Scholarships for treatment and housing breakdown those barriers. Since 2016, our combined fundraising efforts have provided scholarships for 339 people seeking to change their lives.
Jack
Jack is a proud Hansen Foundation housing alumni. He learned valuable job skills that carried him to a successful trade position that he has today.
Sam
Sam’s life changed the day she reached out to Jennifer Hansen for help. Through the help of The Hansen Foundation, Sam now has a young family and a successful career helping others.
Shirley
Shirley didn’t know anything about sober living before she lost her job in NYC. The Hansen Foundation helped show her just how important the recovery community can be.
Nina
Through the help of The Hansen Foundation, Nina was able to get her kids back. Today, she sees them regularly and is working on gaining custody. (MJBMF Scholarship Recipient)
Carlos
Carlos couldn’t keep a job due to his addiction to alcohol. The Hansen Foundation helped him learn valuable skills for success through our Solid Roots Employment Program at Enlightened Farm.
J.T.
J. T. received a scholarship for treatment and sober living from The Matthew Bee Memorial Fund. Today, J.T. is thriving with a successful career, a wife and a young son. (MJBMF Scholarship Recipient)
The Hansen Foundation and our partners offer merit and needs-based scholarships for admission to addiction treatment facilities.
A scholarship might cover the entire cost of treatment, or it might be a one-time award to help to make treatment more affordable. Either way, it’s worth applying for, because it’ll help reduce the cost of addiction treatment.
It is easy, just apply using the form below. Our staff will be in touch to help you complete the application process and help you find out if you qualify for one of our scholarships.
Just fill out the form below with your contact information and a little bit of information about yourself, or your loved one who needs help.
The money for your Scholarship will be transferred directly to the treatment facility to cover or help cover the cost of treatment.
A scholarship will not affect your medical coverage or other benefits. We work closely with insurers to help you get the best coverage in a way that is affordable to you and your family.
There are no deadlines for our scholarships. You can apply at any time and our team will help you through the application process. It is easy. Apply Today!