Our Partners and Advisors
At Be Free, we believe strongly in the power of partnerships to achieve the meaningful, sustainable recovery support solutions we seek. Our success depends on relationships.
Ron Hill
Parent and Board Member
"I am so excited to find that Kansas City has somebody’s passion as Lou’s about building Be Free, about really understanding that we need a community to help sustain recovery journeys."
Sharon Weber
The Haven at College
The Haven at College is the nation’s most respected collegiate recovery support provider. They were scheduled to begin providing services at the University of Missouri Kansas City for the Fall Semester 2020.
Bethany Andell
Savage Brands
Savage Brands of Houston, a for-profit corporation is one of the nation’s leading private sector branding, messaging, marketing, and culture-building agencies. They provided $50,000 services grant to Be Free to work on these elements.
Brandy Izquierdo
The SAFEProject (SAFE)
SAFEProject is a national nonprofit working a collaborative, multi-pronged, and non-partisan approach to end the nation’s catastrophic addiction epidemic. SAFEProject combats the epidemic in 4 groups, SAFE Campuses, SAFE Communities, SAFE Workplaces, and SAFE Veterans.
Hendree Jones
UNC Horizons
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Our Partners
The Fletcher Group
The Fletcher Group (FGI) is a national nonprofit funded by the Health Resources Services Administration, a division of HHS. FGI is home to the Rural Center of Excellence for Recovery Housing and provides no-cost technical assistance (TA) to expand the quality, capacity, and accessibility of recovery housing in rural communities across the United States. FGI will continue to support the efforts of Be Free with technical assistance, including house manager training, program model development, policies and procedures, best and promising practices, NARR standards, Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR) training and support, suggestions regarding data collection and outcomes, and sustainability planning.
The SAFEProject (SAFE)
The SAFEProject (SAFE) is a national nonprofit working a collaborative, multi-pronged, and non-partisan approach to end the nation’s catastrophic addiction epidemic. SAFE combats the epidemic in four groups, SAFE Campuses, SAFE Communities, SAFE Workplaces, and SAFE Veterans.
First Call
First Call provides clinical, educational, and prevention services to individuals and families in Greater Kansas City impacted by substance use disorders. Formerly called the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, First Call was founded in 1958 to serve the Kansas City metro area.
One of Be Free’s co-founders, Susan Whitmore was until recently the President and CEO of First Call. First Call’s family programs, How to Cope and Caring Kids, are important programs for Kansas City recovery and need funds to expand.
Be Free is an advocate for funding to expand these programs geographically across the metro area.
Savage Brands
Savage Brands of Houston, a for-profit corporation is one of the nation’s leading private sector branding, messaging, marketing, and culture-building agencies. They provided $50,000 services grant to Be Free to work on these elements.
The Haven at College
The Haven at College is the nation’s most respected collegiate recovery support provider. They were scheduled to begin providing services at the University of Missouri Kansas City for the Fall Semester 2020.
COVID has delayed implementation, but the Haven at College continues to be an important advisor to our work.
Connecting Your Loved Ones To Us
Are you looking for assistance or resources for an individual who is struggling on their road to recovery?
Making a commitment to recovery is saying, “Yes,” to a lifelong journey of discovery and growth. There are ups and downs, forks in the road, and difficult choices to be made. If you know someone who needs us, please fill out our contact form below and a representative will be in touch.