Community & Family Resources - Story County (S High Ave, Ames) - Ames, IA

Community and Family Resources is a pro-active organization dedicated to assisting individuals, families, and communities achieve healthy behavior and lifestyle through advocacy, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse and problem gambling.

Since 1968, CFR has a long history of helping people learn healthy behaviors to prevent addictions and achieve an improved quality of life while maintaining abstinence from addictive behaviors.

Community & Family Resources
1619 S High Ave
Ames IA 50010
Tel: 515 232-3206; 800 286-3205

Prevention

Tobacco Prevention and education services are aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth and adults; promotion of youth and adult cessation; policy; and eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke through the work of local coalitions.

Substance Abuse Treatment

CFR provides client centered inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment services for both adolescents and adult populations. CFR strives to provide the appropriate services to enable individual make and maintain the positive life changes that they desire to achieve.

Detox Services

CFR understands the detoxification process is rarely an easy one. Highly trained medical staff are supervised by our Medical Director and are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week to monitor this process.

Gambling Treatment and Education

Compulsive gambling is just as real and devastating as addiction to drugs and alcohol. CFR has been providing gambling treatment and education for over a decade. Our treatment professionals have all received specialized training in working with compulsive gamblers and their loved ones.

Agency Objectives

1. Ensure services and programs provided by CFR meet the current and emerging needs of individuals and communities in a fiscally responsible manner.

2. Provide stewardship and oversight of funding, programs and services; including outcomes and financial performance.

3. Take proactive steps to achieve financial stability and ensure long term sustainable growth.

4. Assess and address infrastructure issues to align with organizational and program/service needs.

5. Pursue relationships and collaborations that support CFR's work and priorities.

6. Improve and increase the image, profile, impact, and influence of CFR throughout the community.

7. Provide information and education on issues impacting CFR and its clientele.

It is the objective of Community and Family Resources to provide our customers, which includes clients, funders, and other agencies, with services that promote a healthy behavior and lifestyle, through advocacy, treatment, and prevention of substance abuse and problem gambling.