Since inception, the Ed Keating Center and Jean Marie House have always been programs based on 12 step recovery.  Our founder, Jack Mulhall, was a dedicated member of AA and believed that abstinence is the best way to achieve and maintain long term sobriety.  We have been helping alcoholics/addicts this way for 25 years.  Our Alumni network is large and strong.  These men and women and their families continue to be of service to our three facilities and genuinely call this place "home".  Our three facilities combined have the capacity to serve 200 people at one time. 

Currently our Board of Trustees is in the process of considering turning our 12-step based sober living program into a medically assisted treatment (MAT) facility.  We are not here to debate medically assisted treatment, nor are we saying that it is bad.  We are simply saying that there also needs to be places like the Ed Keating Center and Jean Marie House.  There needs to be places that offer an abstinence-based solution as well.  If this vote passes, the EKC and JMH programs will change completely.  We will lose Alumni support and 12 step recovery support.  A number of the employees will feel forced to resign due to the fact that they themselves practice abstinent based 12 step recovery.

WE MUST TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION NOW!  We are hoping to show our Board of Trustees, by way of this petition, that changing our 25-year program into something it was never meant to be will have a profound impact on so many lives.  The employees, residents and Alumni are proud of who we are and how we began.  Jack Mulhall left his legacy in our hands, and we will fail him if we go this route.

In signing this petition, you are supporting the continued legacy of an abstinence-only, 12 step based program.