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
How To Become A Partner
Our Partners
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
UNC Horizons
UNC Horizons provides world class empowering and transformational interdisciplinary care to women and children affected by substance use disorders. What began with a handful of patients in a single clinic is now a robust program with the full support of the University of North Carolina, one of the top research universities in the country. Now, 250 women are touched each year – more than 5,000 since the program started – by Horizons’ integrated prenatal care and substance use disorder treatment, trauma-informed recovery practices, inpatient and outpatient treatment, career counseling, housing assistance, case management, family therapy and a five-star child development center.