Santa Clarita’s Action Family Counseling is offering one person a free treatment at one of their several intensive outpatient treatment programs, officials said Thursday.

Action Family Counseling is granting a randomly selected person, or a friend or family member of that person, free treatment on April 20, said Scott Quashen from Action Family Counseling.

To be eligible for selection, residents are being asked to “share” and then “tag” someone in Action Family Counseling’s Facebook post.

“We decided to use social media to save lives,” Quashen said.

The beauty of this post stems from how one will be selected, through being tagged in a loved one’s share of the post, Quashen said. Rather than people simply entering their own name to “win” something online, we have created a system in which will spread love and awareness to those in need.

“We believe that people suffering from addiction and alcoholism being tagged in a post like this may be a factor in pushing them into getting help, which may ultimately save their lives,” Quashen said. “Not only will one person be randomly selected for free treatment on April 20, but every person who is tagged in another’s post will know that they are not fighting this battle alone, and that others love them.” 

As of Thursday morning, the post has been shared over 50 times.

To enter yourself, or someone you know into the contest, visit their Facebook page here.

Contact them through email here or message for more details. For crisis calls, or inquiry about our Programs, call (800) 367-8336.

About Action Family Counseling 

Action Family Counseling has drug and alcohol residential treatment locations in Santa Clarita, Piru, and Bakersfield; Intensive Drug and Alcohol Outpatient in Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Ventura, Pasadena, and Bakersfield, Action Family Counseling is here to help you.

Action Family Counseling’s primary goals are to maintain abstinence, stabilize co-occurring illnesses, and increase quality of life. We support and reinforce change in behavior patterns so that adolescents and adults, or clients and their families can fully indoctrinate the philosophies and principles needed to remain abstinent and stabilized for life. 

Action Family Counseling accomplishes this by providing an effective treatment approach developed by the Department of Health and Human Services that includes a multi-disciplinarian personalized approach by a treatment team. Once a patient is identified, we provide an initial screening and assessment, which allows us to properly diagnose and place patients in the appropriate treatment setting.

Once a patient completes our intake process to our residential program he or she receives 24-hour crisis management, individual counseling, group therapy, family education and counseling, treatment planning, routine and random toxicology screening, pharmacotherapy and medication management, education about Alcohol and Other Drugs and mental health issues, self-help and support group orientation, case management services, and discharge service planning with a transitional service plan to our Intensive Outpatient treatment program to ensure a continuum of care.