Expertise
- Private Addiction Services
- Addiction Aftercare
- Addiction
- Drug rehab
- Recovery Solutions
- Addiction Help
- Sober living
- Structured living
- Rehabilitation
- substance misuse
Summary
FAMILY DRIVEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS
Empowering Families & Loved Ones to Overcome the Cycles of Substance Abuse After Treatment
Whether you have just experienced a substance abuse crisis ( SUBSTANCE ABUSE TRAIN WRECK ) or in the process of rebuilding after a life-changing substance abuse trauma, your family deserves healing and happiness . The ēdge team works with families to effectively navigate the life long recovery process. Our proven, best-practice, outcome-based life skills program helps families unlock their full potential and achieve happiness.
Over 25 years of executive management experience including 20 years of experience in the behavioral health industry as Vice President, with a focus on client acquisitions, strategic program development, overall operations, and profitability of a facility. Tod is committed to using ethical principles in the client acquisitions process, program development, public relations strategies, operations management and overall business methodologies.
Tod is passionate about addiction recovery. He became involved the way many people do – after seeing a loved one struggle with addiction. Watching someone he cared about struggle with his/her addiction broke his heart, which is why he began volunteering with We Care America. While there, he learned as much as he could about recovery.
While at We Care America, he met Jocelyn Whitfied , director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA). She inspired him to become even more involved in the field, which led to a role as the Vice President of Pacific Hills Treatment Centers/Covenant Hills Treatment Center. He turned his dedicated volunteer work into a career and had a greater opportunity to make an even bigger difference. He spent the next decade growing Pacific Hills and helping countless people overcome their addictions.
Tod has worked closely with leaders like Dr. Amen of the Amen Clinics, Terence T. Gorski, president of CENAPS and clinical director of its Relapse Prevention Certification School, leaders of Celebrate Recovery, executives at Betty Ford/Hazelden and many other treatment providers.
Tod was a successful businessman for years before joining Pacific Hills and has spent the years after he left helping treatment centers streamline their process and become profitable and more effective. However, he has recognized that there are gaps to the effective treatment equation: quality treatment, affordability, accessibility , post treatment and the continuum of care post treatment.
Throughout his career, Tod has seen how big a challenge addiction can be, both for addicts and for the people who love them. He also knows how amazingly effective rehab and treatment can be. He has seen people completely turn their lives around after going through addiction treatment, and he wants to make that option available to anyone who wants it.
During his time at Pacific Hills, Tod served as an advisor to many patients and families. People would reach out, ready to get help and beat their addiction, but not able to receive the required help. Tod found that only a small percentage of the people who reached out for help were able to overcome the barriers to treatment (knowledge, finances, willingness, commitment, grit, effective support, etc). He saw firsthand how heartbreaking and desperation people became when they knew they need help but did not have the resources to access it. He felt called to work with patients and families to figure out how to overcome the issues preventing them from getting the help the deserved.
As an addiction recovery professional, Tod understood the importance of maintaining full capacity at treatment centers. Because there was no lack of demand, he instead focused on finding ways for families to enter treatment. As a result, he developed a deep familiarity of the many different strategies for those seeking treatment and used it to help fill his center.
When you work with Tod, you are working with a seasoned professional who has chosen to focus his talents and energy on helping families.