Caron Facts
Caron is a nationally recognized non-profit provider of alcohol and drug addiction treatment. Caron has more clinical programs to meet the specific needs of each patient regardless of their age, gender, or severity of their addiction than any other treatment center in the United States. With experience in treating co-occurring disorders, Caron offers the most comprehensive treatment programs for adolescents, young adults, adults and their families. All of Caron's programs are staffed by full-time professionals to ensure each patient receives an individualized treatment team, consisting of a psychologist, addiction counselor, medical staff, and pastoral counselors. Caron treats people with chemical addictions of every type: alcohol, drugs such as heroin, cocaine, marijuana and prescription medicines; as well as substances such as inhalants.
Caron offers medical detoxification, residential assessment programs, gender-separate primary rehabilitation, relapse treatment and extended care for adults, young adults and adolescents; outpatient care; educational programs for family members and others whose lives have been impacted by addiction; and student assistance services. Caron has nearly 450 dedicated and well-trained employees.
Patients Served (FY 7/1/08-6/30/09)
- Residential Addiction Treatment Services: 814 adult; 214 young adult; 242 adolescent
- Extended Care Treatment Services: 112 adult; 185 adolescent
- Breakthrough at Caron: 595
- Family Treatment Participation: 416 adult; 226 young adult; 246 adolescent
Individuals Served at Regional Locations:
- Caron Counseling Services: 770
- Caron Renaissance: 894
- Caron New York: 7,700
- Caron Philadelphia: 500
- Caron Bermuda: 58
Student Assistance Services - 285 schools in 10 states, including Washington, D.C., London and Bermuda
Lives Touched Through Student Assistance Services:
- Students: 61,299
- Parents: 2,735
- Faculty Members: 2,309
- Project Connect (Tobacco Cessation): 3,000
- Kids of Promise (education regarding issues related to substance abuse in the family): 7,000
Facilities
- A 110-acre campus in Wernersville, PA
- Outpatient services in Wyomissing, PA - Caron Counseling Services
- Residential Primary and Extended Care services at Caron Renaissance in Boca Raton, FL
- Regional Offices in New York City, Philadelphia, and Bermuda
Beds
258 on Wernersville campus:
- 93 adult residential
- 24 Young Adult Male Program
- 16 Young Adult Female Program
- 21 adolescent male primary
- 12 adolescent female primary
- 13 young women's extended care
- 24 young men's extended care
- 15 women's extended care
- 28 men's extended care
Off-campus Beds
- 21 Breakthrough at Caron program
- 135 Caron Renaissance
Financials (FY 7/1/08-6/30/09)
- Total Unrestricted Revenue: $58.8 million; Total Expenses: $54.2 million
- Annual Charity Care: $8.8 million - this is equivalent to 16.9% of Caron's net patient revenue
- Total Gift Income: $7 million
History
Founded in 1957 by Reading industrialist and recovering alcoholic, Richard J. Caron, and his wife, Catherine, who opened their home to people needing shelter and help with recovery. They subsequently purchased the property it now occupies. In 1983, Chit Chat, as it was known, was renamed Caron to honor its late founders. Caron is one of the first drug and alcohol treatment centers in the country, and the first in the U.S. to establish a residential codependency treatment program.
Alumni
Major metropolitan areas: 5,600 alumni in recovery in the Philadelphia region, 10,000 in the greater New York City area, and 5,100 in the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area.
Location - main campus
Wernersville is in Berks County, west of Reading, Pa. It is 1.5 hours from Philadelphia, 2.5 hours from New York City, and 3 hours from Washington, D.C.
Memberships
National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers
Accreditation
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
