Who we are...

Mission: GOAL Project is a Global coalition of professionals and volunteers that promotes and supports 12 step recovery from the disease of addiction.  GOAL also works toward lessening addiction related problems including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and human trafficking.

Vision: Establish five to ten global centers for the purpose of training and counseling people affected by addiction and people who work with them.

History: GOAL began in 1992 as a Russian Project with the Soviet-American Conference on Alcoholism, a New York-based organization, and The Coalition for Addictive Diseases of Southwestern Pennsylvania, the forerunner of C.L.E.A.R. (the Coalition for Leadership, Education & Advocacy for Recovery), a project of the non-profit, charitable Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation (PFL).

Important: GOAL is a Christian faith-based non-denominational NGO. GOAL is affiliated with the International Substance Abuse and Addiction Coalition (I.S.A.A.C.), the O.P.O.R.A. Center, and the International Center for Health Concerns (I.C.H.C.). GOAL has worked cooperatively with the South American Missionary Society (SAMS), World Witness, Presbyterian Church USA, The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), Samaritan’s Purse, Worldwide Lab Improvement, Blessings International, Prison Fellowship International, The United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), The Egyptian Ministry of Health, SARAH Network in Kenya, and the New Partners Initiative of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the U.S. Agency for International Development (NPI/PEPFAR/USAID).

What we do...

• We respond to the invitations / requests from local church groups, government agencies, NGOs and missionaries.
   

• We recruit, screen and train volunteers for short and long term mission training trips.
   

• We train local indigenous leadership in the disease concept of addiction family systems, starting and maintaining 12-step meetings, and prevention of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS.
   

• We assist and resource seminaries and mission-sending agencies.
   

• We translate books into native languages.
  We collect, purchase, and ship requested treatment and prevention educational materials.
   

Where we are...

Africa
The SARAH Network in Kenya
Substance Abuse Recovery And HIV/AIDS

Romania
The ACRA / St. Dimitrie Project
Association in Romania of Counselors in Addictions

Russia
The OPORA Center
OPORA is a Russian Word for “Support”

Central America
The Belize Prison Project

Central Asia
The Tajikistan DAP Project
Drug and AIDS Program

Why your support is needed...

G.O.A.L. Project is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We raise funds from individuals, churches, foundations and government agencies to support in-country treatment and prevention programs, such as the St. Dimitrie Outpatient and Training Center in Romania, the SARAH Network in Kenya, and the Belize Prison Project in Central America.

GOAL responds to invitations from countries such as Uganda, Belize, Tanzania and others as funds become available. GOAL seeks scholarship funds for addiction training for applicants who qualify, based on financial need. However, fiscal responsibility and accountability are essential for on-going support.

How you can help...

• Volunteer a portion of your time and talents. If you have experience in recovery or addiction certification, fill out an application on our website.

• Then, join a short-term volunteer mission team, or become a long-term missionary to assist, or begin an in-country project.

• Host a training event in your church or organization.

• Provide grants to support educational materials and training.

• You can support our efforts by visiting our website and shopping for GOAL, online.

• Make tax-deductible contributions on-line or send checks to:
  
            809 Franklin Avenue
            Aliquippa, PA 15001

For more information contact GOAL

Call: 1-888-229-3045 Email: mail@goalproject.org
Website: www.goalproject.org

GOAL Board of Directors:

The Rev. Dr. Robert D. Hughes, President

Karen Plavan, Ph.D., Vice-President

J. Joseph Beckey, CSJ, Secretary

Mary Theresa (Terry) Webb, Ph.D.
Charles B. Jarrett, Jr. Esq.
Michael Znachko
John Malone
Jay Gilmer, Esq.
Lewis El
The Rev. Chip Taylor

GOAL Advisory Council:

Fred H. Bentzel, II
John Blevins, Ph.D.
The Rev. Cress Darwin
Noel Ilogu, MD, ASAM
David John Powell, Ph.D.
The Rt. Rev. Henry Scriven


GOAL Executive Director:

Grace A. Kizzie, ACSW

NOTEWORTHY:

In December 2006, the GOAL Project was awarded a million-dollar, three-year grant from the U.S. New Partners PEPFAR Initiative for its SARAH Network in Kenya.
     GOAL has also received grants from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Benevolence Fund and the Church Periodical Club, along with many individuals and churches.
      GOAL has partnered with:
• the Episcopal Partnership for Global Missions (EPGM),
• the Florida-based NET Institute,
• the International Substance Abuse and Addiction Coalition (ISAAC,
• World Witness,
• the Orthodox Christian Charity,
• Gateway Rehabilitation Center and
• the Community of Celebration in Aliquippa, PA.

Take a stand and make a difference
by supporting GOAL

Visit our website: www.goalproject.org
 

Global Outreach...

Africa: The GOAL SARAH Network in Kenya

In the spring of 2006, the Anglican Relief and Development Fund (ARDF) awarded SARAH a grant to train clergy and begin the preparation of a Kenyan Prevention curriculum, and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church provided small grants to help sustain SARAH. On December 1, 2006, the U.S. PEPFAR’s New Partners Initiative selected a GOAL project proposal for supporting the SARAH Network to build on the work that GOAL/SARAH had begun in Kenya, supporting the SARAH Network NGO and nine grassroots projects. GOAL provides overall oversight to SARAH, manages the USAID grant, assists with institutional strengthening and leadership training, and provides training for 12-Step support groups.

Plans: For 12-Step support groups, addiction training and care for HIV-positive widows and orphans.


Russia: Russian/OPORA Projects

In 1997, GOAL helped to organize a conference in Moscow initiating World Witness, the Missionary Board of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, to train Russian trainers to lead basic addiction training groups. OPORA has also started over 100 12-step recovery groups. OPORA now has set up a program to train addiction counselors and a prevention training program for social workers.

GOAL has been sending joint GOAL/OPORA teams of trainers to lead basic addiction seminars throughout Russia and the former Soviet Republics since year 2000. Teams have helped establish both AA an Al-Anon in cities such as St. Petersburg, Volgagrad, Chebyskary, Sablino and Izhevsk.

Plans: GOAL/OPORA continue in a close working relationship.


Romania: The ACRA / St. Dimitrie Project

In 1998, Dr. Webb was invited to teach a course on addiction to the psychology and social work students at Babes-Boyal University. She taught a basic addiction course in 1998 and 2000. On her first trip, Dr. Webb realized the need for a long-term missionary group to help stabilize their fledgling AA and Al-Anon. Floyd Frantz, a licensed addictions counselor, joined Dr. Webb in the fall of 2000 in Constantia. Floyd helped stabilize their AA program, founded the St. Dimitrie outpatient clinic, now an OCMC project, and hired two psychologists who had been trained by GOAL’s own Dr. Webb. The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) continues to answer the call by bringing the Gospel to all nations. Their work with the St. Dimitrie Project has been invaluable.

Plans: The St. Dimitrie Project is currently helping over 150 people reclaim their lives and is directly responsible for reducing the death rate at the tuberculosis sanitarium by 300%. Support is needed to expand upon those efforts.

Central America: The Belize Prison Project

Mike Znachko initiated the BELIZE PROJECT in 2004. He acts as the strategic coordinator in starting and maintaining 12-step recovery groups (Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous and Emotions Anonymous) for inmates at the Belize Central Prison in the country of Belize, Central America.

All 1,400 (men, women and teens) are enrolled and involved in physical, mental, and spiritual programs. Over 400 inmates are involved in Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Emotional, Teen (Alateen) and 12-Step Recovery programs. This program now includes a full-time substance abuse Rehabilitation Center.

Over 200 members of the Prison Staff consisting of Counselors, Security Personnel, and Prison Management have received 16 hours of addiction awareness and recovery training. Through the efforts of Mr. Znachko and GOAL, in less than three years the reality of “recovering a country” has emerged with the training of social workers and government officials.

Plan: Investigators have begun to develop a much needed Half Way House.

Central Asia: The Tajikistan DAP Project

In 2004, GOAL received a request from the Drug & AIDS Program (DAP) to lead a 12-step support group training in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Heroin drug trafficking from Afghanistan passes through Tajikistan in route to other Central Asian countries. Tajik men find menial labor employment in Russia and bring back HIV--infecting women and children.

Also in 2004, Dr. Webb and Katja Savina (the director of the outpatient Zebra Clinic in Moscow and consultant for OPORA training) led a week-long training seminar in Duanbe. GOAL has also supported an OPORA staff member to lead Co-dependence Training in 2005. In January 2005, a GOAL team helped stabilize the fledgling AA, NA and Al-Anon groups that began in 2004.

On behalf of the GOAL Project,
“Thank You” for your time, patience and cooperation.


With YOUR support we can make a difference.

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