It is quite obvious that George Farnsworth is helping John Schmidt get off to a running start. The evocative photos all come from Farnsworth's site.
Until Schmidt can actually get a permanent physical facility/location for his TC, however, he is still stuck doing a lot of referral work.
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About UsUntil our new facility is completely up and running we can only offer those in need a carefully researched referral to an existing facility that seems to match their specific situation. There can be no guarantees, of course. Experience shows that most addicts leave any rehab facility within too short a time -- they invent excuses about not liking the food, or the beds, or the staff. Even those who stay for 90 days or more often go back to abusing drugs or alcohol within a short time.
For these reasons we must charge a nominal up-front referral fee for our time and expertise.[/list]
MCTC and its staff as well as residents with a little bit of clean time know the importance and difficulty of your coming to us and asking us for help. We recognize the sincere task being accepted by you if you agree to our terms so that you can change and become real people as opposed to what came to us for your interview. You are known to us. You are transparent, as there isn't one person here that is not an ex-addict, ex-convict, ex-whatever.
Staff at MCTC is not here for salary. We don't get one. We are here because we understand the necessity of not just placing you in an environment where you can help yourself but being here to allow you to draw from our experiences while going through this process as well as after you graduate — return to the world that brought you here to begin with. We exist in order that you may learn right living as well its components we are here to make sure that when you leave that you have internalized our thoughts and attitudes toward behavior and personal discipline — the same ones and perhaps your new twists on our old ones that have kept us clean ranging from 10 to 38 years each. Being clean is not such a challenge, but you just don't pick up staying clean. Knowing that the reasons you have to accomplish this is a daily final exam — fail it and you might just die or worse. MCTC exists to teach life skills to allow you not to just have several trades, but we make sure that when you leave us you have adequate funds for an apartment and a car with residual money in the bank to avoid the undue stress brought on by emergencies should they occur. Prior to leaving you will have enough therapeutic interaction with your peers and staff that you should be your own best friend. Should you just go through the motions not to worry you can still graduate. Just work and remain the shell you were when you joined us and see with time who suffers for this extreme stupidity. Let us share with you as we have so many before you the practical time-proven methods that allowed us to become mature adult human beings. Apply yourselves as we have — as people have in the program models we used in our development of MCTC and either leave or stay. YOU WILL HAVE A LIFE YOU ONLY DREAMED OF BEFORE.
No one gets rich working at MCTC. If anything the truth is our staff, our administrators don't have and won't have any salary for their long days and frustrating hours.
Their pay is
your sobriety, your freedom from social as well personal oppression in all its forms.
Required to make it here is a willingness — a need to change along with the ability to care for your peers as you would have them care for you. We also require that you admit to and take responsibility for your errors and apply yourself every day is if it is your last day.
That said, call us and make an appointment. You will be amazed at the results.
MCTC recognizes the responsibility of its residents as ex-offenders in the rebuilding of areas of society damaged by the action and inaction of its residents during their years of drug addiction, alcoholism and other forms of subsequently destructive behavior. We offer as matter of course Community Interaction Programs through which our residents assist seniors in their difficult activities such as shopping, cleaning, and cutting grass to name a few. The reward received for this is unique. Those who were harmed by or afraid of our people or who simply have no one else but the government to rely on learn to see us as we are — people who made errors — serious errors in many cases who are willing to make amends by admitting our idiocies and working through positive means to demonstrate that our change is something we live — our change is heartfelt. All we want is the chance to have the privilege to earn the acceptance, if not the trust, of those with whom we are fortunate enough to interact. As a matter of policy all senior citizens from the areas in which our buildings are located are welcome to join us for dinner nightly Monday through Friday night from 5-6:30 during our house meal time.
