Hanley Foundation’s mission is to eliminate addiction through prevention, advocacy, treatment, and recovery support.
Pillars of Our Mission
To ensure our programs and service efforts reach the people who need them most, Hanley Foundation’s mission features four primary focus areas: Prevention, Advocacy, Treatment, and Recovery Support. Operating under these pillars, our team develops deep relationships with key community partners. Together, we build programs, create services, and drive funding support for prevention and treatment programming for schools and families throughout Florida.
Prevention
Hanley Foundation’s prevention initiatives aim to delay the age of an individual’s first use of alcohol.
Prevention Programs
Advocacy
We work with key thought leaders to destigmatize substance use disorders and drive prevention efforts.
Treatment
Saving lives. Changing outcomes. We leverage our two nonprofit treatment programs and facilities to treat mental health and substance use disorders.
Treatment Programs:
Hanley Foundation’s Lifesaver Scholarship Program provides quality substance use treatment to more than 500 people every year through the generous support of our donors.
Recovery Support
Providing the tools to heal and the freedom to grow, we create spaces for connection and understanding. We provide these groups to the community at no cost.
Programs:
Why Hanley
Addiction touches millions of Americans annually. The statistics demonstrate a clear call to action, and Hanley Foundation is proud to rise to the occasion. Through our mission, we’re actively working to reduce the harm of substance abuse by providing prevention programming, education, treatment and recovery support and services, in addition to funding treatment scholarships for those in need.
- There were more than 107,000 drug-involved overdose deaths in 2023, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids.
- Deaths from synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) continue to rise and were involved in 74,702 overdose deaths in 2023.
- More than 46 million people over the age of 12 meet the criteria for having a substance use disorder in the last year.
- 94% of people with a substance use disorder did not receive any treatment in 2021.
- Nearly 23% of full-time college students meet the medical criteria for substance use disorders and addiction.
- Children and teens who drink before age 15 are 6X times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than those who do not drink before age 21.
- Prescription drug abuse is the most rapidly increasing drug abuse among teens
Guiding Principles
Hanley Foundation deepens understanding of the causes, symptoms, effects, and responses to substance use disorders through broadened exposure to evidence-based training.
Hanley Foundation believes reducing youth substance use supports healthy personal and community development.
Hanley Foundation believes that every individual and family deserve a chance to find recovery.
Hanley Foundation facilitates access to quality treatment with a full continuum of care and expectation of recovery.
Hanley Foundation focuses on cultivating healthy communities, families, and children through evidence-based prevention education, training programs, and best practices.
Hanley Foundation champions evidence-based youth prevention education and collaborates with and empowers other stakeholders.
Hanley Foundation focuses on supporting programs and social norms that are positive in nature and promote positive behaviors.
Hanley Foundation believes in closing the empathy gap and expanding acceptance through elevating societal understanding of substance use disorders as treatable diseases.
Hanley Foundation believes that knowledge and fact-based advocacy are the keys to changing societal understanding and action surrounding substance use disorders.
Hanley Foundation advocates for legislation that will improve equitable access to care and evidence-based youth prevention education.
