About Us
Leland Family Ministries is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit
faith-based organization that provides services to juvenile
and adult offenders, addicts and their families. The interdenominational
ministry is located at 550 E. Davidson Street, Bartow, Florida
33830. The service provides programs to residents of Central
Florida regardless of age, religious preference, socioeconomic
status, race, ethnicity, gender, or physical ability and assists
them in finding resources and information to deal with the
incarceration or drug problem of a loved one. The service
is a community outreach that aims to strengthen families and
empower them to overcome a loved one’s drug addiction
or redirect the lives of the incarcerated while imprisoned
and the successful reintegration upon release.
The goal of Leland Family Ministries is to be
an effective whole provider of faith-based family services
to those needing support and resources. Initially operating
as a Juvenile Justice outreach program, Leland Family Ministries
has expanded to open the first Florida Chapter of Mothers
Against Methamphetamine (MAMA). The “Just Say No”
drug campaign has not worked and drug abuse among teens has
skyrocketed. The MAMA approach combines the family and faith
components to address the meth problem. Successful experience
has taught the ministry that faith, family, and local involvement
is key to restoring meth addicts, successful prevention awareness
programs and community improvement.
Libbie Combee and Dr. Mary Holley during her visit. |
With the separation of Church and State, it
is difficult for law enforcement and various agencies to go
beyond the protocol of the system and laws of the land. This
organization acts as a liaison between the two. Faith-based
substance abuse treatment has shown to be far more effective
than traditional programming as it aims to heal the whole
person rather than just target the addiction. Leland Family
Ministries leads families to the power that the Lord Jesus
can give to them to face what is ahead and to overcome. Increasing
or establishing the Christian faith facilitates the successful
recovery from addiction and through God’s people He
can help change addicts and families forever!
In response to this emerging community need,
Leland Family Ministries’ MAMA chapter has also established
a Teen Recovery and Support Group and Awareness Education
for 10 to 17 year olds in Polk County. The youth team has
raised and will continue to raise awareness of the lethal
dangers of “meth” to the region’s adolescents
as well as provide support and assistance to addicted methamphetamine
teens and their concerned families with a youth faith-based
program. This two-prong approach is aimed to reduce initiation
of methamphetamine use by young people and aid those snared
in its clutches to escape with help from their family and
faith. The awareness goal is to prevent use and early initiation
of this deadly drug by developing healthy consciousness of
the dangers and harmfulness of methamphetamine use.
Please contact us if you need help or want to
help your family or community. If you are unable to do anything
more than pray, we gladly need your prayers! God bless you.
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