History of CARA

In 1995 CARA became a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and began providing acupuncture detoxification services at the Chemical Dependency Center for Women (now Strategies for Change). Since then CARA has added nutrition education, targeted nutritional supplements, healthy meal preparation, and several mind-body integration techniques. CARA's services are now provided at the Sacramento County Probation Department’s Boys Ranch, Kaiser Permanente's Chemical Dependency Recovery Program, and New Dawn Treatment Centers. Our national conferences in 2007 and 2009 spawned an international organization of like-minded professionals that became its own nonprofit called Alliance for Addiction Solutions. At this time CARA is developing an online school for continuing education of professionals.