Your gift to Caron's Annual Fund for patient scholarships can help individuals and their families start on the road to recovery, giving them hope for a brighter future free from alcohol and drugs.  All gifts for patient scholarships, whether large or small, directly go toward the cost of treatment.

Last year (FY 2006-07) Caron provided more than $7.7 million in charitable services to adolescents and adults - patients who desperately needed treatment, but did not have the financial resources to pay for it.  In addition, 1,512 patients received scholarship funding.

Below are several testimonials from recipients of patient scholarship funds.  You can see just how much of an impact your gift will have on the lives of individuals and families who come to Caron for help.

"I would like to express my deep gratitude to all of you for your incredible generosity.  Without the scholarship I would never have been able to get the help I so desperately needed here at Caron.  My time here has given me a second chance at living my young adult life.  The knowledge I have gained and the experience I have had is the foundation for my new beginning."

-Mark D.

"I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the scholarship to attend the Caron Adolescent Treatment Center.  This has been a life changing experience. I now handle things differently.  The program helped my relationship with my family/parents, school, and most of all, myself."

-Jackie R.

"It is hard for me to believe that simply two words - thank you - could be sufficient to convey the depth of my gratitude.  The scholarship your contributions made possible is the only reason I was able to be here.  And if I had not come, I fear this disease might have taken my life."

-Michael K.