Phoenix House Career Academy Managing Director Herman Lozada recently attended the meeting of Community Board 13 Queens to report on the dangers of synthetic marijuana, often known as K2 or Spice.

On April 24th, Phoenix Houses of Texas will host the annual 2012 Triumph for Teens Luncheon at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. With David Feherty as the keynote speaker, the event will support life-saving recovery programs in Texas.

In his opinion piece The Antithesis of Charity: Investing in Our Future by Keeping Our Promise to Veterans, Eli Williamson, Co-Founder and President of Leave No Veteran Behind and a veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, discusses how “keeping our promise to our returning veterans and investing in them so that they can positively impact our nation’s future is not charitable…it is simply the smart thing to do.”

The Phoenix House AmeriCorps Program held their annual Completion Celebration on January 20, 2012 in the Bronx, recognizing volunteers from their Class of 2011.

Phoenix Houses of the Mid-Atlantic recently opened its inaugural Partial Hospitalization/Day Treatment Program, a structured 30 hour per week program designed to bridge the gap between outpatient services and residential programs. This initiative is one of many changes that Phoenix Houses of the Mid-Atlantic has undergone in the past year and is reflective of the organization’s mission to serve all of those in need of services.