Addicted To…? Need Help? Help For Someone You Love? Liberation Programs (LPI) is a private, nonprofit substance abuse prevention and treatment organization serving more than 2,000 individuals and families annually throughout lower Fairfield County CT since 1971. LPI’s mission is to empower people and their families to be free of the disease of addiction by providing targeted solutions that restore lives and strengthen our community. Alan J. Mathis & Reverend Dale Rosenberger join us today on the air 10:20am eastern.
Liberation provides services for youth, adults and families that include two inpatient treatment programs, outpatient and intensive outpatient services, health education for older adults and people living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses, treatment and resources for adolescents and their families, education and prevention efforts in the community, and permanent supportive housing for families.
Alan J. Mathis
Alan J. Mathis joined Liberation Programs in 2006 and under his leadership the agency has increased the number of people served by 38%, reduced wait times for treatment, and expanded access to wrap around social services including a transitional employment program and increased access to primary medical services through partnerships with community health centers. Working with the Board of Directors, the agency developed a permanent supportive housing complex in Norwalk for women and their children. Mr. Mathis is a frequent speaker in the community and his on-going column, Here Where We Live, can be read in the Norwalk Hour. Prior to joining Liberation Programs, Mr. Mathis served as President and CEO at the Lower Eastside Service Center providing housing, primary medical, addiction and mental health services, and Director of the Narcotics Rehabilitation Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. He is a graduate of Kean University, NJ with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and earned a Master’s of Science in Public Policy and Management from the Averall Harriman College at the University of NY at Stony Brook. As a Sloan Fellow, he studied public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.
Reverend Dale Rosenberger
Rev. Dale Rosenberger is the Senior Minister at the First Congregational Church of Darien. He is a valued community partner of Liberation Programs and someone who deeply understands and supports Liberation’s mission of helping people achieve lifelong recovery from addiction. He is an honoree and keynote speaker at this year’s Spirit of Hope Benefit, Liberation Programs’ signature event. A native of Michigan, Rev. Rosenberger earned a B. Phil. in psychology from Thomas Jefferson College of Allendale, Michigan in 1975 and his M. Div. from Yale University Divinity School in 1979. Dale has served local churches in Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, Cape Cod, and two here in Connecticut. Dale has authored three books, the first on spiritual authority, the second on how to do Christian outreach, and most recently, a practical theology of shared intimacy for couples. Dale has led 12 Habitat for Humanity short term mission work trips building homes with the poor, resulting in 86 homes in seven different Latin American lands.
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