is a non-profit agency
with teaching
communities throughout California,
Arizona and New Mexico.
Amity Foundation is dedicated to the inclusion
and habilitation of people marginalized by addiction, trauma, criminality, homelessness, incarceration,
poverty, racism, sexism and violence.
Amity is committed to research, development, implementation and dissemination of information regarding community building.
Remembrance, Resolution, Reconciliation,
Restoration, Renewal
The Amity Foundation
provides an array of services
based on the Therapeutic
Community model in a
variety of physical settings.
In general the services
provided for Amity participants contain
individual and
group therapies that are specialized according
to the
actual setting and recipient of the activities.
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Amity Foundation is pleased to announce its award of a Federal Grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) to create an Offender Reentry Program (ORP) for Women returning to the community in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Full
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Our Almas de Amistad and La Entrada projects have moved to 609 Gold Ave. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
These are federally funded outreach center in downtown Albuquerque that provides cost-free, gender specific substance abuse treatment and related social services to minority women.
Almas de Amistad
505.246.9300
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Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Program, the first correctional facility of its kind in an Asian country, illustrates the international impact of Amity Foundation and the United States Therapeutic Community (TC) initiative. Shimane Asahi began operating in Asahi Town, Hamada City, Japan in October 2008. Dedicated to the genuine rehabilitation of prisoners and their reintegration into society, developers of Shimane Asahi looked to the United States and Amity Foundation as a model for using prison therapeutic community methodology to reduce recidivism.
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Recognized nationally and internationally for their personal dedication and professional expertise in TC methodology, Rod Mullen, President and CEO, Amity Foundation, and Naya Arbiter, Principal, Extensions LLC, are among the 200 invited specialists participating in the IV World Federation of Therapeutic Communities Institute: The future of the Therapeutic Community in the Changing World. Full
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Ray Clarke, Board President of Dragonfly Village and Southwest Regional Vice President of Amity Foundation, has been nominated to attend the 97th Arizona Town Hall: Arizona’s Government: The Next 100 Years. Full Story >
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Amity Foundation is very proud to announce our participation in the making of Lifers: Reaching for Life Behind the Walls.
This is a very provocative film about the personal experience of participants in our Amity prison program,
that are serving life sentences. It takes the viewer into
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