Our Mission

The Family Foundation, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization committed to the needs of at-risk youth who would benefit from a therapeutic environment to achieve educational goals. By sponsoring programs and developing facilities that address this concern, and by expanding accessibility to care through financial assistance, we support families seeking lasting recovery.

Our Values

• The 12 Steps
• Supporting teens and young adults on the path of recovery
• Restoring families
• Fellowship
• Rigorous honesty
• Quality of care
• Integrity

Our Vision

• acquire recognition at local, regional, and national levels
• assist quality assurance projects at FFS and Betton House
• develop programming that supports families in crisis
• expand financial aid program
• develop financial aid endowment
• a long range capital campaign for facilities development

Our History

The Family Foundation incorporated in 1984. Throughout its history it has administered a successful financial aid program that assists students attending the Family Foundation School. In 2006, the Foundation partnered with Betton House, a sober dorm for students attending college in the area of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 2007, the Foundation recommitted its activity to a revised mission by hiring its first full-time executive director. Steps are currently being taken to expand the Foundation's financial aid program, to assist in quality assurance efforts and to create a long range capital campaign to develop facilities.

Our Affiliates

The Family Foundation School has guided thousands of troubled teens toward responsible adulthood with character education that includes the 12-Step program of recovery and its spiritual principles, rigorous academics including special academic support where needed, psychological counseling, and a strong and experienced faculty and staff.

Betton House is a "sober dorm" for young adults, 18 to 24, who have completed rehab, a wilderness program or therapeutic high school, and are seeking guidance and support for their new lifestyle as they make the transition to college. Betton House is not a treatment facility, but a student dormitory where you'll find a group of peers who, like you, are successfully dealing with substance abuse, gambling addiction, anger, ADD or ADHD, ODD, OCD, mood disorders or depression.