#ThisIsFortDodge: Community and Family Resources
“Community and Family Resources is dedicated to proactively assisting individuals, families, and communities achieve healthy behavior and lifestyle through advocacy, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse, problem gambling, and mental illness.”
Addiction, like diabetes and heart disease, is preventable and treatable. Community and Family Resources offers education, treatment, support, and encouragement needed to overcome mental health issues or addictions to drugs, alcohol, and gambling. We also offer education and workplace support for employers.
“Community and Family Resources is dedicated to proactively assisting individuals, families, and communities achieve healthy behavior and lifestyle through advocacy, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse, problem gambling, and mental illness.”
Website: http://www.cfrhelps.org/
About Us: Community and Family Resources (CFR) has been a free standing comprehensive substance abuse provider dedicated to serving families since 1968. Comprehensive Prevention Services began in 1982, and services for problem gambling began in 1997. The agency has been licensed by the State of Iowa to provide Substance Abuse Services since 1978. In 2011, CFR also became accredited as a Mental Health Service Provider by the Division of Mental Health and Disability Services under the Iowa Department of Human Services. In 2018, CFR earned a three-year accreditation from the international accrediting body, CARF, for its crisis stabilization, detoxification/withdrawal management, residential treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, and outpatient treatment programs.
Today, CFR offers outpatient behavioral health services in Boone, Calhoun, Hamilton, Humboldt, Pocahontas, Story, Webster, and Wright Counties. Additional Prevention services are also included in Franklin and Hardin Counties. CFR’s residential treatment facilities, detoxification unit, adult crisis stabilization unit, transitional living/halfway housing, and administrative offices are located in Fort Dodge. Community and Family Resources is focused on integrated and exceptional behavioral health care and prevention services to those seeking help for substance abuse, mental illness, co-occurring issues, or problem gambling.
The agency’s Board of Directors includes elected county officials as well as individuals with a desire to represent their county and CFR’s mission. CFR maintains a Board of Directors with between 11 and 18 members, representing each of the counties based on population, level of service, and interest to serve.