Addiction is a family disease. Lakeside Families Anonymous meets there every Wednesday evening. The McShin family council, Families 4 Recovery, works hard educating the community and families about the disease of addiction.

Heidi E.

While incarcerated and awaiting trial, I met Hannah Newsome a former staff member for the McShin Foundation who facilitated the Riverside Regional Jail volunteer Substance Use Disorder classes. Hannah began to share with me her experiences. Hannah not only shared her experiences she also brought materials and DVDs showing people who were successful in long-term recovery [...] The material and information she would share helped to explain the purpose of the peer-to-peer concept and alternate pathways to recovery. For the first time I heard the words Hope Dealer. Not knowing fully understanding what these words meant and their true value I suspected that they were giving me my first glimpse of real hope for my situation.

Frank L.

Ever since coming to McShin, I have had a completely new outlook on life. It has shown me so many different ways that I can have fun time being clean, and that I don’t ever have to use drugs again. It has shown me the pathway I use for my recovery (which is the program of Narcotics Anonymous). Without the NA program and McShin, I don’t know where I would be at in life. I would probably be in jail or prison. If not that, I would probably be dead! It has given me the opportunity to have a great connection with my family – one that I have not had in many years.

Dylan K.