NAU faculty partners with local substance abuse treatment facility to assist families

Only 1 percent of substance abuse treatment facilities in the U.S. allow parents in treatment to keep custody of their children, despite research that proves successful recovery hinges on holding families together.

To address the issue in Flagstaff, Marca McCallie, a licensed therapist and a Northern Arizona University doctoral student in psychology, co-founded Sage Home residential treatment center in 2017 to assist people in recovery keep their families intact.

In 2018, McCallie collaborated with Rita Wright, assistant clinical professor in NAU’s Department of Social Work, and Emery Eaves, assistant professor in the Northern Arizona University Department of Anthropology, to apply for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS). Read more ….