Profile of Miracles Inc.

Miracles, Incorporated is a faith-based, private, non-profit substance abuse prevention and treatment agency. Miracles was founded in 1992 by MaryAnn Mroczek and Rhonda Walker as a grass-roots endeavor to provide residential substance abuse treatment services to women/women with dependent children at or below poverty. Miracles, Inc. expanded services to include a prevention program for children, residential intermediate and reintegration treatment for women with children, intensive outpatient treatment for men, women and families, strengths-based case management program, transitional housing for addicted women with a history of homelessness and mental illness, and a permanent supportive housing program.		Mission Statement: "Substance abuse destroys families. Miracles, Inc. provides services to prevent and treat substance abuse and fight poverty, thus creating positive change for individuals, families and the community."

Miracles, Inc. envisions a world that understands the erosion of the family caused by the disease of addiction and the importance of maintaining a ‘safety net’ for individuals and families that can not afford substance abuse treatment. The cornerstone of substance abuse treatment is the belief that all families and communities have unique talents and gifts, which can be utilized in the recovery process. With adequate resources, understanding, research and implementation of best practices, this bio-psycho-social-spiritual disease can be conquered. We underscore the impact of social injustice, racism, poverty, abuse and inequality as underlying factors in the development of social environments, which breed addiction and futility. We encourage and support all efforts, local and state, community and national that support an understanding of the disease of addiction as a Public Health Issue.

'Circle of Life' Philosophy-The most effective approach in dealing with at risk children and addictive family systems is by completing a comprehensive assessment, which is the guide for effective treatment planning and individualized interventions that are meaningful to the consumer. Each individual/family bring their own unique life experience into the treatment process, including family system, ethnicity, gender, culture, biology, and other psycho-social-spiritual beliefs and attitudes. The evaluation process includes the building of client and counselor rapport with an attitude of respect and individual freedom (self-determination). As a result, Miracles, Inc. recommends the least restrictive environment be used in the treatment of addiction whenever possible.
We maintain that each individual has a complex circle of interaction/eco systems which may facilitate or inhibit growth. A basic elemental truth is there are opportunities within the internal and external environment to support healthy change. Supporting and advocating for the expression of freedom through choice is central to sustained recovery. Miracles, Inc. programs are a temporary part of each client’s circle of life to provide needed services until self-sufficiency is achieved. However, we acknowledge and respect that we are not central to the process of change for a family. The individual/family is central to this process of change from which all other systems are involved (interact). We believe substance abuse is a response to a disease process that is sustained and created by the use of mood altering chemicals that negatively impact brain function and as a self-harming coping tool for dealing with life’s challenges. Over time, the adaptation to foreign chemicals creates brain dysfunction. The interference of normal neurology activity in the brain results in an uncontrollable drug craving and a drug seeking cycle.