Leveraging Dollars through Strategic Partnerships
Our First Major Projects
Some of Our Other Partnerships
Our Reality
Our Hopes for the Future

Leveraging Dollars through Strategic Partnerships

From the Hanley Family Foundation's inception in 1986, it was clear that our best chance to have a positive impact on treating the diseases of chemical dependency was to align ourselves with strategic partners. Today, we continue to build partnerships with others interested in the field of recovery from addiction.

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Our First Major Project

Our first partnership involved the Hanley Family Foundation founders, John W. Hanley, Sr. and Mary Jane Reel Hanley, the United Way of Palm Beach County and the United Way of America. The first stage of the partnership identified the need for a world-class treatment center in southeast Florida and helped form a board of directors to promote a new West Palm Beach rehabilitation facility.

The second stage involved a three-way partnership involving St. Mary's Hospital of West Palm Beach, Hazelden Foundation (a practitioner of treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence) and the Hanley Center Foundation (a community-based group). These partners combined forces and built and operated an 88-bed, non-profit, chemical dependency rehabilitation center. To date, Hanley Center has treated more than 26,000 clients and has now embarked on a major expansion of facilities and services. The Hanley Family Foundation has provided several grants to Hanley Center over the years to support its activities.

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Some of Our Other Partnerships

Over the years, we've participated in many partnerships. Here's a snapshot of a few of these successful endeavors.

In 1998 a partnership with Casa de Recuperacion Para Alcoholic led to the creation of a safe house for Hispanic chemical dependents in West Palm Beach, Florida. Our grant was for bricks and mortar. The residents provide operating expenses as they develop career skills and gain employment. The success of this project was so great that we made a second grant in 2003 for a second safe house in southeast Florida.

Another recent multi-partner project that bids to be successful is Hanley Hall, in Vero Beach, Florida. This residential treatment center started as a request to help a struggling center called AlcoHope. With guidance from the Substance Abuse Council and the United Way of Indian River County, a group of community leaders persuaded officials of Indian River Memorial Hospital to permit construction of a 20-bed facility on their grounds. As men and women receive treatment there today, plans to double the capacity of this center are beginning to unfold.

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Our Reality

Not all prospective partnerships are successful. Some grant applicants, and even some grant recipients, falter because of unexpected community opposition, loss of a key leader, poor decisions by the organization's leadership, or the failure to complete a necessary capital campaign. Because of lessons learned in the past, the Hanley Family Foundation conducts substantial due diligence into many aspects of a proposed project or grant applicant before funding is committed.

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Our Hopes for the Future

The Hanley Family Foundation has been involved with a range of partners, and likely will remain involved. Our partners include the Caron Foundation, Betty Ford Center, Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependency, Johnson Institute, American Society of Addictive Medicine and others. In the future we'd like to work toward:

• A successful program that trains youth to avoid the complexities of life related to the use of illegal drugs and indiscriminate use of alcohol and tobacco.
• A society that understands that alcoholics are suffering from an identifiable and treatable chronic disease.
• Medical schools that properly train students to treat these diseases and make treatment a prominent part of curricula.
• A legal framework in our nation that protects the rights of the chemically dependent.
• A society in which "managed care" cannot deny afflicted employees and their families treatment for chemical dependency.
• A nation in which clergy receive instruction to deal with addicted men and women.

Please understand – the Hanley Family Foundation does not lead each of the multiple efforts in these important areas, but it operates as a part of an informed coalition helping to make progress in these areas.

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