First Call provides clinical, educational and prevention services to individuals and families in the Greater Kansas City area impacted by alcohol and drug addiction.
The agency also operates a 24-hour, seven days a week crisis call hotline (816-361-5900).
Founded in 1958, First Call is a key catalyst for building capacity among 400+ Greater Kansas City area substance abuse, health care, behavioral health and support providers.
It is the mission of First Call to reduce the impact of alcohol, drugs and addiction by providing quality resources to individuals, families and the community.
Shatterproof is a national organization committed to protecting our loved ones from addiction to illicit and prescription drugs, and alcohol, and ending the stigma and suffering of those affected by this disease.
Shatterproof’s ultimate goal is to end addiction. Over the next 20 years we will focus on three specific, measurable goals:
- Reduce by 50% the number of Americans addicted to alcohol and other drugs (more than 22 million in 2013).
- Reduce by 50% the number of Americans who die from alcohol and other drugs (more than 135,000 per year).
- Reduce by 50% the societal cost alcohol and other drugs (estimated in excess of $415 billion per year).
The High Sensitive Person is website dedicated to providing resources to HSPs and parents of HSCs. The site is run by Elaine Aron, who began researching high sensitivity in 1991 and continue to do research on it now, also calling it Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (SPS, the trait’s scientific term).
The site contains several self-tests useful for providing more information about your worldview and the possibility that you are an HSP.
Heartlight Ministries
Heartlight Ministries exists to do 2 things:
First, we provide a safe haven of hope for 56 struggling teens at our residential counseling center located in Longview, Texas. Our atmosphere of relationships creates an arena of change for teens and parents lost in a broken world.
And second, we offer help and direction for parents of all teens through our Parenting Today’s Teens radio program, our books, parenting resources, and seminars and conferences….all dedicated to offering effective and practical ways for parents to counter the influence today’s culture is having on their child.
In short, parents and teens need us—now more than ever. That’s why we exist.