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Unlocking Ashley’s Future Campaign
We’ve been helping people discover life beyond addiction. This campaign will ensure we can keep opening those doors for generations to come.
Give Now:
Accelerate Research to Advance SUDs Treatment
Enrich the Patient and Family Experience
Enhance the Environment of Care
Increase Our Impact through Scholarships
What Is A Life Worth?
Everything.
At Ashley, we believe in a future in which Substance Use Disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery are accessible to all who want it and where effective treatment profoundly improves the lives of all patients, families, and communities.
In 2022, more than 48 million people in the United States suffered from alcohol and drug Substance Use Disorder (SUD).*
Why Ashley?
In 1983, Father Martin and Mae Abraham began treating those suffering from SUD with a dignified and holistic approach. They removed the stigma and shame typically associated with SUD treatment and identified alcoholism as a disease —not a moral failing. This visionary method has since transformed the field of SUD treatment, research, and patient care. Within two years of opening, Forbes Magazine ranked Ashley as one of the country’s Top Ten SUD treatment facilities.
More than 40 years later, Mae and Father Martin’s legacy continues on Ashley’s 147-acre campus, where we believe in a future in which SUD prevention, treatment, remission, and recovery are accessible to all who want it. Our comprehensive services provide individualized compassionate care that fosters hope and empowers individuals to reclaim their lives from the grips of SUDs.
Unlocking Ashley’s Future
Through our capital campaign, Unlocking Ashley’s Future, we’re expanding access to care, strengthening family connections, creating a state-of-the-art research center, and building spaces that reflect the worth of every life we serve.
“I am very grateful for my time at Ashley and the support I received in the years since I left Ashley as a patient. When I came to Ashley, my life was very chaotic, and while at Ashley, I was able to find peace and begin to feel like myself again. During my time on campus, the staff and counselors were so kind and helpful, and I knew that Ashley was behind me and wanted me to succeed. I am committed to the Unlocking Ashley’s Future Campaign so other people struggling with substance abuse can access the help they need and benefit from the care Ashley provides.”
Accelerate Research to Advance Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Because a life is worth better answers.
Through the Unlocking Ashley’s Future Campaign, we seek financial support to:
Build a Research Center: Very few SUD treatment centers have any research component, let alone a dedicated facility and staff. This campaign will allow Ashley to be an industry leader in advancing SUD medicine by building a Research Center on our campus. This physical plant will serve as a hub of research, innovation, and thought leadership for the field of SUD treatment.
Ashley is already at the forefront of research, and over the past three years we have created an infrastructure for our research program, including:
Establishing relationships with world-renowned institutions like The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, along with companies such as FitBit and Trac9, in order to focus on biometrics and clinical data.
Collecting and analyzing data that will help us discover improved treatment modalities at all levels of care, including detox, residential, partial hospitalization programming, intensive outpatient, and outpatient.
Continuing to publish our research findings in peer-reviewed academic journals to inform and shape the future of SUD treatment.
Because Every Life Is Worth Understanding
Our Research Manager Jami Barney shares how a dedicated research building will allow Ashley to expand innovation, improve outcomes, and deepen our understanding of what makes recovery possible — one life at a time.
Enrich the Patient and Family Experience
Because changing one life can restore an entire family.
At Ashley, we seek to form lifelong connections with patients and their families. Our research shows that the longer the engagement with patients and families, the more favorable the outcome; as such, we have a goal to provide direct engagement for one full year following treatment. We know Ashley is only the first stop on the journey to recovery; once patients leave our campus, they have the opportunity to become part of a robust alumni program that includes regional and virtual meetings, home groups, and one-on-one connections.
Establish a Family Services and Alumni Program Center
Total commitment from the family — partners, parents, caregivers, children, and other relatives — makes a significant difference in lifelong recovery. It takes participation from an entire support system for a loved one to get well and stay well. Renovating a previously purchased 5,000 sq. ft. private residence adjacent to campus (currently known as Namvary House) will allow us to expand our Family Services and Alumni programming to provide comprehensive education and long-term engagement.
Unlocking Support for Every Loved One
Our Vice President of Clinical Services, Jennifer Aguglia, shares how our Family Services and Alumni Program Center will create a dedicated space for connection, education, and continued healing — because recovery doesn’t just change one life, it transforms every life it touches.
Enhance the Environment of Care
Because a life is worth dignity, safety and compassion.
A nurturing environment is a crucial component of recovery. Restful, peaceful, and beautiful facilities promote focused healing. Our historic 147-acre main campus in Havre de Grace, Maryland, overlooks the majestic Chesapeake Bay. This beautiful setting is the perfect location for patients to experience total immersion in our holistic treatment programs. Alumni often recount Ashley’s physical surroundings as part of their healing journey.
While Ashley’s Endowment Fund provides more than $2 million annually for basic maintenance, critical renovations and enhancements are needed to preserve our campus and continue to provide the ideal setting patients need to heal their mind, body, and spirit. These necessary capital repairs and renovations include:
Patient Room and Bathroom Renovations
We want all Ashley patients to have a clean, safe, and comfortable environment while in treatment. In total, we need to renovate 45 patient rooms and 33 bathrooms, along with purchasing new furnishings.
Elevator Replacement/Installation
In Bantle and Noble Halls, respectively, to ensure our facilities are accessible to all.
Grounds Upgrades
Building activity courts to provide a space for entertainment, exercise, and community outdoors.
HVAC Upgrades and Maintenance
COVID-19 highlighted the importance of indoor air quality. Our HVAC system is in dire need of an upgrade to ensure a healthy, safe, and comfortable environment on campus.
Unlocking Spaces That Heal
Through campus renovations and accessibility upgrades, we’re creating an environment designed to comfort, restore, and inspire. Ensuring every person who walks through our doors feels seen, supported, and safe.
Increase Our Impact through Scholarships
Because a life is worth more than a price tag.
Through the Unlocking Ashley’s Future Campaign, we seek to grow the Scholarship Fund to offer financial support to more individuals while also expanding the Fund to include access to Family Services. This investment will ensure quality Substance Use Disorder treatment and education is accessible to as many individuals and families as possible, fulfilling a vital component of Ashley’s mission.
Scholarship Funds to Support
- Ashley Scholarship Fund
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship Fund
- Emerging Adults Scholarship Fund
- Family Services Scholarship Fund
- Janel Claire Hudson Women’s Scholarship Fund
- Mae Abraham Legacy Women’s Scholarship Fund
- Stephen Zanardelli Room and Board Fund
Unlocking Access, Unlocking Futures
With your support, Ashley is unlocking new possibilities by expanding access to care so more individuals and families can step through the door to lasting recovery. Because every life is worth everything.
Ways to Give
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Check
Send check (payable to Ashley Addiction Treatment) to
ASHLEY INC
PO Box 641219
PITTSBURGH PA 15264-1219
Phone
(410)-273-2234
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Please email BMalatesta@Ashleytreatment.org
Donor Advised Fund or Family Foundation
Ashley’s Tax ID number is 52-1126145
Legacy Giving
Learn more about Legacy Giving Here.