• Build and expand health care facilities.  Our campus exceeds 90 acres including Lake Serenity, wooded areas, and historic structures.  Clinical facilities all need updating and restoration to keep pace with hospital innovations and expansion.
• Help patients who need added days of residential care.  In the world of alcohol and substance abuse, detoxification, and healing, research has shown a clear correlation between the length of stay in a rehabilitation center and the long-term success of the patient’s recovery.  Insurance carriers, however, do not reimburse behavioral health and substance abuse programs as generously as they cover a patient’s medical and surgical needs.  The Patient Extended Care fund provides for this gap.
• Provide continuing education opportunities for our drug and alcohol treatment staff.  Inaugurated in 2006, the Brighton Hospital Addiction Fellowship is America’s first clinically based addiction fellowship program.  It increases the quality and quantity of medical staff and supports the vision of the hospital as a national center of excellence and an innovator in alcohol and drug treatment and education.
• Help collaborative research programs with leading medical and nursing schools.  Funds are needed to sponsor research programs while they develop the resources needed to apply for extramural grants from government agencies and foundations.
• Provide scholarships for our youth drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.  Through regional partnership, the Teen Drug Rehab Program enables more teens, ages 13-17, and their families to get the help they desperately need.  Scholarships provide assessment, intensive outpatient treatment for three months and aftercare.
• Fund and continue a variety of other programs, such as our clergy recovery series, our 30-day residential treatment series, our halfway house expansions, the restoration of our 1939 chapel, and the relocation and expansion of the gift shop and bookstore, all which keep our hospital a leader in drug and alcohol treatment, and the rehabilitation center of choice over other highly regarded chemical dependency hospitals.

Ways to Contribute

Contribute to Projects Needing Support

Contribute to the Tree of Hope

Contribute at our Fund Raising Events

Contribute as a Volunteer

How can income from your charitable trusts or other gifts of charity help in the fight against addiction?   

The Brighton National Addiction Foundation (BNAF) seeks your charitable gifts and trusts to support its fight against all forms of substance abuse.  Dedicated to the mission of Brighton Hospital, one of America’s oldest and most experienced substance abuse treatment facilities and the first to be licensed in Michigan, the Foundation offers ways for individuals, corporations and grant makers to invest in our national leadership through charitable trusts.  Income received through your trusts and gifts allow us to continue to be a leading source of hope through prevention, patient care, aftercare, education and research. By establishing a charitable trust for the BNAF, you can play a pivotal role in the fight against chemical dependency.  There are many philanthropic opportunities available for you to be part of the solution.