COURAGE TO CHANGE How the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s History of Innovation Shaped the Field of Addiction Treatment and Recovery

1949 1950 DIGNITY AND DOCUMENTING RESPECT EFFECTIVENESS Hazelden Foundation Hazelden reports opens in Center City, serving 156 men Minnesota; AA’s in first 20 months, Twelve Steps and noting 78 percent respect for each “have recovered and patient are core demonstrated marked aspects of care. progress.” 1953 1954 SOBER LIVING SELF-HELP MODEL BOOKS Fellowship Club opens Hazelden enters the in St. Paul, Minnesota, publishing industry by a halfway house for acquiring Twenty-Four men that advances Hours a Day; helps to the concept of sober- launch the self-help living residences. literature genre. 1956 1957 CARE FOR SUBSTANCE WOMEN DEPENDENCE Dia Linn opens in Hazelden coins Dellwood, Minnesota, the term “chemical one of the first dependency,” residential addiction broadening its scope treatment centers to treat all substance designed for women. dependencies—not just alcohol. 1961 MULTI- 1963 DISCIPLINARY TRAINING APPROACH TREATMENT Psychology is PROFESSIONALS integrated into Counselor training treatment, initiating program begins; leads development of the to establishment of multidisciplinary Hazelden Betty Ford “Minnesota Model” Graduate School of emulated worldwide. Addiction Studies in 1999. 1964 THERAPEUTIC 1965 COMMUNITY SPIRITUAL CARE DESIGN Full-time chaplain Major expansion joins staff, solidifying positions patient non-religious units around a central spiritual care as a administration hub; key component of innovative design is multidisciplinary widely emulated in treatment. health care. 1967 1966 RELAPSE FAMILY HEALING PREVENTION Family conferences The first formal are incorporated into aftercare program care, paving the way introduced, advancing for a formal Family the chronic-illness Program, launched in treatment model. 1972. 1972 1969 PROFESSIONALS RESEARCH- IN RESIDENCE INFORMED CARE Program brings Hazelden launches professionals to its first formal campus to shadow outcomes study; leads clinicians and to establishment of patients; Summer the Butler Center for Institute for Medical Research in 1977. Students begins in 1988. 1974 STANDARD 1976 BEARER OUTPATIENT Hazelden accredited SERVICES by Joint Commission Partnership with on Accreditation local hospital brings of Hospitals; Hazelden’s first demonstrates outpatient program to commitment to St. Paul; new level of quality standards care meets treatment commensurate with all needs of more people. of health care. 1982 1981 FIRST LADY OF SPECIALTY CARE RECOVERY FOR TEENS Betty Ford Pioneer House in Center opens in Plymouth, Minnesota, Rancho Mirage, is acquired as a California, bringing specialized treatment unprecedented center for adolescents visibility to addiction, and young adults. treatment and recovery. 1984 RECOVERY 1986 RETREATS DETACHING Renewal Center WITH LOVE opens, welcoming Hazelden Publishing’s guests to an unrivaled Codependent No roster of Twelve Step- More is a New York inspired retreats and Times bestseller, workshops. introducing the term “codependent” into 1994 self-help lexicon. BOLD ADVOCACY Former First Ladies 1996 Betty Ford and BRAVE NEW Rosalynn Carter WORLD lobby together in Hazelden web Washington, DC, to page arrives on the promote treatment; Internet, exponentially Betty Ford Center increasing access to and Hazelden have information influential public about addiction and policy role from this access to help. point forward. 2000 1997 CARE FOR FOR THE KIDS CAREGIVERS Betty Ford Center Betty Ford Center develops a pioneering launches a Health Children’s Program, Care Professionals distinguished treatment program for prevention focusing on return- effectiveness in to-practice and other landmark 2004 study. specific recovery issues. 2006 WEB-BASED 2010 RECOVERY INSTANT SUPPORT ENCOURAGEMENT Hazelden implements Hazelden Publishing My Ongoing Recovery releases its first Experience (MORE®), mobile app, Twenty- a web-based patient Four Hours a Day, portal to continuing introducing anywhere/ care resources. anytime recovery support, motivation 2012 and affirmation. MEDICATION- 2014 ASSISTED A FORCE OF RECOVERY Clinicians develop HEALING AND what becomes HOPE the field’s leading Hazelden and opioid addiction Betty Ford Center treatment protocol, merge to form the Comprehensive Opioid Hazelden Betty Response with the Ford Foundation, Twelve Steps, the nation’s leading COR-12R. nonprofit addiction treatment provider. 2015 MEDICAL 2016 SCHOOL ADDRESSING AN CURRICULUM OCCUPATIONAL Course on Addiction HAZARD and Recovery Groundbreaking Education (CARE) study conducted with launches, a first-ever ABA on substance online curriculum for use disorders among medical students legal professionals worldwide. informs recovery efforts specific to this 2017 population. CLINICAL 2018 COLLABORATION INDUSTRY The Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care REFORM Network forms; In testimony before a first-in-the- a U.S. House field collaboration Committee, president among health care and CEO Mark G. organizations to Mishek makes the improve patient case for stronger outcomes. quality standards in the addiction 2019 treatment industry. GENETICS AND TODAY TREATMENT COURAGE TO Collaborative research project begins with KEEP CHANGING Mayo Clinic to identify The innovation biological markers continues. As science that would predict a further reveals the patient’s response to dynamics of addiction, technology a medication used in allows for increasingly individualized treatment of alcohol care, and outpatient growth makes use disorder. care more accessible to more people, treatment at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation continues to evolve— always leading with the respect and dignity that have set our care apart from the beginning.