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In the News (Mon 4 Jun 12)

  
 Orchid-Recovery
The Orchid Recovery Center for Women was founded by Julie Queler in September 2004.
The Center's ideology is based on the research of Dr. Karen Dodge and stresses the importance of promoting "relational growth", which is a treatment modality that fosters personal growth through the encouragement of a high degree of interdependence and trust among women during the treatment process.
She is also celebrating her 15th year in sobriety, and feels that the practice of yoga is of immense benefit to addicted individuals in treating the whole being.
www.orchidrecoveryforwomen.com /staff-biographies.html   (820 words)

  
 Volunteers hit hard by tragic news
But as the volunteers drifted into the Laura Recovery Center on Monday to await word on the latest ominous development, they stressed that they were clinging to hope.
Many who went to the center, at East Spreading Oaks and South Friendswood Drive, gathered in small groups among the yellow ribbons and pictures of Laura to listen for news Monday morning.
Jars were set up at the Laura Recovery Center for donations to help the Crouch family with funeral costs.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/97/04/22/laura-scene.html   (618 words)

  
 CMN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Thomas Enlow, a neurologist at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, diagnosed Laura with Myasthenia Gravis, a chronic and sometimes fatal neuromuscular disease characterized by weakness and the abnormally rapid fatigue of muscles.
Enlow decided that her best chance would be with a thymectomy, the surgical removal of the thymus gland, which produces an antibody that interferes with the normal transmission of nerve signals to muscles.
Laura now spends her spare time doing a lot of art work, not taking naps.
www.neo.rr.com /Childrens_Medical_Center/philanthropy/cmn00/burge.html   (214 words)

  
 Siena College - Center for Counseling and Student Development
The Center for Counseling and Student Development (CCSD), a department within Student Affairs, strives to help students cope more effectively with personal, emotional and situational barriers to learning; improve students' adjustment to unavoidable stress; integrate students into the College's academic and social environment; and contribute to their personal growth and development.
Thus, the primary mission of the Center for Counseling and Student Development is to provide students with psychological support and guidance toward finding more effective coping strategies through counseling and supported by psycho-educational programming and consultations.
Thus, the primary goal of the Center for Counseling and Student Development is to provide students with psychological support and guidance toward finding more effective coping strategies.
www.siena.edu /studentaffairs/counseling_center.asp   (1334 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
When Bob Smither's daughter Laura was abducted and murdered back in 1997, he and his wife founded the Laura Recovery Center, which helps families search for their missing children.
And, one of the tools that is -- that we use -- is the Laura Recovery Center manual, which was written by the volunteers that searched for Laura.
I know when my Laura was missing, the fact that people cared and put their own lives on hold to search for her, just meant everything in the world to us.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0206/15/cst.06.html   (1180 words)

  
 Bob Smither - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He served on the Board of Directors of the Armand Bayou Nature Center, an organization committed to preserving habitat along the Armand Bayou.
In 1997, Smither and his wife Gay founded the Laura Recovery Center for missing children in Friendswood.
Additionally, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Houston Regional Amber Plan, a community notification system that has saved the lives of abducted children.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Smither   (501 words)

  
 Outpatient Substance Abuse Center - Lasting Recovery
Prior to forming /establishing Lasting Recovery in 2004, Dr. Saalinger was in private practice for 23 years, specializing in, chemical dependency, depression, trauma and anxiety related issues for individuals and their families.
Rudolph is an addiction specialist in Private Practice in Sorrento Valley and on the faculty of UCSD in the Psychiatry Department.
Laura Miller, LCSW, CEAP, SAP, is a lecturer, and psychotherapist, recognized for her work in the area of interpersonal relations and couples counseling with families in recovery.
www.lastingrecovery.com /staff.html   (487 words)

  
 My May 2006 Journal by Robert Cooke
Gayle Smither, mother of murdered Laura Smither and co-founder of the Laura Recovery Center, has been working to establish a state recognized missing children day.
The Laura Recovery Center has invited me to attend the event.
Laura Recovery Center has been working with the State of Texas to make a state recognized missing children's day.
www.rachelcookesearch.org /journal_may2006.html   (378 words)

  
 WhoWon.com ... The Internet Source for Motorsports News and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Laura Recovery Center has been instrumental in searches for Tabitha and keeping her name and picture in the minds of all.
The Center formed in 1997 shortly after 12 year old Laura Kate Smither, was abducted near her home in Friendswood, Texas, aims to work cooperatively with law enforcement and community groups, as a private citizen response team, focusing on the search of missing children, and freeing law enforcement to do their investigation.
The Laura Recovery Center Foundation was formed to honor the personal and professional sacrifices made on behalf of Laura, and works to address the immediate response necessary in the event of child abduction.
www.whowon.com /RF_Results.asp?TrackID=512&StoryID=149534   (462 words)

  
 Elizabeth Smart - Politics
She was in the same bedroom with her and pretended for at least another two hours to be asleep before telling her parents (Ed Smart and Lois Smart).
Soon after Smarts abduction, a massive community search effort, organized by the Laura Recovery Center, started searching for her.
Up to 2000 volunteers a day were dispatched to the area surrounding her home trying to find any trace of the missing girl.
www.popularq.com /articles/Politics/General/Elizabeth-Smart   (354 words)

  
 Writing in Recovery
Laura Trice, M.D. is dedicated to the well being of individuals in recovery and making a difference in the world.
Laura has facilitated programs with Federal inmates, Medical Students individuals, as well as private and academic groups on both coasts.
Laura Trice, M.D. is the author of How to Work Any 12-Step Program, a simple step by step over view of how 12-Steps works and the science that supports the 12-step approach.
www.lauratricemd.com /index.html   (531 words)

  
 Drug Rehabilitation Center Staff Orchid Recovery Center
Copyright 2005 Orchid Recovery Center for Women Drug Rehabilitation and Alcohol Rehab Center.
Drug Rehabilitation at Orchid Recovery Center for Women is a drug treatment and alcohol rehab program which offers women a substance abuse treatment and alcohol treatment approach that is uniquely focused on the recovery needs of the female.
We provide an atmosphere of love and hope for recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism, specializing in women's drug treatment.
www.orchidrecoverycenter.com /rehabilitation-staff.aspx   (960 words)

  
 Laura Recovery Center
The following information is from the NCIC Missing/Unidentified Person File Report for 2000, Washington, D.C.; National Crime Information Center, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice, January 2001.
For the fifteenth time in the eighteen years since the passage of the Missing Children's Act in 1982, the number of missing persons reported to the police increased.
This is a positive development, the first time in 16 years since the passage of the Missing Children's Act in 1982 that there has been a significants reduction in the number of missing persons reported to the police.
www.lrcfoundation.org /stats.html   (831 words)

  
 2004 We the People Projects
Staff and curricular programming in the Center for the Study of Democracy, in collaboration with Historic St. Mary's City.
A four-week summer institute for twenty-five school teachers on nineteenth-century African American literature and culture, centered on the themes of slavery, literacy, and freedom.
Laura Kamoie, American University, Washington, D.C. An investigation of the agricultural, industrial and commercial activities of three generations of the Tayloe family of Northern Virginia between 1700 and 1830, illuminating the changing society and economy of Virginia gentry.
www.wethepeople.gov /projects/2004grants.html   (7770 words)

  
 Welcome to Texas Center for the Missing
Texas Center for the Missing is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing support for families and the volunteers searching for their missing children.
Founded by Doreen Wise after the four-month disappearance and tragic loss of her son, Gabriel, the organization is driven to help keep children safe.
Information submitted to Texas Center for the Missing is confidential and will never be sold or traded.
www.texascenterforthemissing.org   (255 words)

  
 Laura Recovery Center
The Laura Recovery Center exists to prevent abductions and runaways and to recover missing children by fostering a Triangle of Trust among law enforcement, community and a missing child's family.
To offer the Laura Recovery Center Manual to citizens faced with a missing child incident.
The Laura Recovery Center - for missing children - is a member of
www.lrcfoundation.org   (211 words)

  
 Off the Kuff: Libertarian candidate in CD22
The engineering consultant is known for the tragic case that involved the kidnapping and murder of his daughter Laura Smither.
Smither and his wife, Gay, helped found the Laura Recovery Center, a nationally recognized center that helps search for missing children.
The center also serves as a national advocate for laws to keep children safe.
www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/007054.html   (428 words)

  
 Turning Tragedy Into Hope - Crime Justice & America - May 2004
Laura Kate Smither, age 12, was abducted near her Friendswood, Texas home on April 3, 1997 --- her body was found 17 days later.
If a child goes missing, their organization can set up a command center, distribute flyers, coordinate media coverage, help local authorities with topological, aerial and satellite maps and a sexual offender database, and send out their own search and rescue team including certified tracking dogs and experts in crime scene preservation.
The Jimmy Ryce Law Enforcement Training Center in Arlington, Virginia, authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1997 and administered by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, helps Law Enforcement personnel learn how to deal with abducted children.
www.crimeweek.com /cja/0504missing.html   (1431 words)

  
 Missing Children - Klaaskids Search Center
Your child that has fallen prey to a kidnapper who can disappear at a mile a minute, so there is not a moment to lose; missteps are not an option; and equivocation can cost lives.
The KlaasKids Search Center offers a highly trained search manager to assist in organizing a community search effort on behalf of a missing child.
The Search Center will respond to child abductions when we are contacted by a family member of the missing child or by the jurisdictional law enforcement agency.
www.klaaskids.org /search_center.htm   (333 words)

  
 Runaways and Missing Children
Dedicated to the protection and recovery of missing, abused and exploited children and at-risk adults.
Assists in the location and recovery of missing or abducted children.
Under the law, that information must be entered into the National Crime Information Center, a computerized database of victims and criminals maintained by the FBI.
www.focusas.com /Runaways.html   (2835 words)

  
 Account for Danielle's search still has $24,000 (What about money promised to Laura Recovery?)
And they are writing a $5,000 check to the Laura Recovery Center, which coordinated the search for Danielle.
I still hurt for the parents of Laura Smithers who is the namesake of the organization.
Laura was abducted and her body found months later.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/656916/posts   (6113 words)

  
 Gulf Coast E-news
"For over 30 years, Galveston Arts Center has been a cornerstone of the downtown historic district," said Clint Willour, director of the center, urging the board to restore funds for Artwalk that were cut off when an application for three-year funding was submitted one day late.
Volunteers at the Laura Recovery Center in Friendswood celebrated the rescue of Elizabeth Smart of Utah, who was kidnapped from her home eight months ago.
The center oversaw the search effort, which set records with thousands of volunteers in the field daily.
www.guidrynews.com /03GCEN/07203March13.html   (2173 words)

  
 The Online News Station
The Laura Recovery Center personnel were deeply touched by this gesture, and the live auction winner was delighted with their winning bid!
The Laura Recovery Center is a recognized charity of the Shell Houston Open, participating in the Birdies for Charity.
All members of the public are invited to support the Center's work by making a pledge in the Birdies for Charity Pledge Drive.
www.guidrynews.com /06April/09306Laura.htm   (416 words)

  
 The Official Laura Davis Website
This is Laura Davis and I'd like to welcome you to my site.
I started LauraDavis.net as a way to build a community of people who are interested in healing themselves, their relationships, and the larger world.
Laura and her mother, Temme, who reconciled with each other after a very painful seven-year rift.
www.lauradavis.net   (466 words)

  
 Internet Alcohol Recovery Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Based on a lecture given by Laura F. McNicholas, M.D., Ph.D. to the medical students of the University of Pennsylvania on October 4, 1995.
Time course - on set within 5 minutes, plateau in about one-half hour and remain there fro 4-6 hours; recovery may take 24-48 hours.
Chronic effects - not known in man, but in experimental animals, including non-human primates, there has been long-lasting, if not permanent, destruction of CNS serotonin pathways.
www.uphs.upenn.edu /recovery/consumers/library/McNicholasLaura.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Orchid Alcohol Treatment and Drug Rehab Center for Women Expert Treatment Staff
He is a specialist in the psycho-social aspects of addiction and has served as the Chairmen of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Hospital.
Orchid Recovery Center for women drug rehab center provides comprehensive services for recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism, specializing in women's drug treatment.
Orchid Recovery Center offers drug rehab and alcohol rehabilitation residential treatment programs based in Florida.
www.orchidrecoverycenterforwomen.com /staff.aspx   (926 words)

  
 The Center for Divorce Recovery - Our Associates - Laura A. Harwood
Laura Harwood earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.
Her training has included work in residential, inpatient, partial-hospitalization and outpatient settings.
Harwood is a provider for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois PPO and Humana Health Care Plans PPO.
www.divorce-recovery.com /harwood.htm   (249 words)

  
 Classic Planet PDF - Elizabeth Smart just one of many PDF poster children reported missing
ElizabethSmart.com features a pair of PDF-based posters and various other resources in PDF, including a Child Safety Kit, a set of volunteer forms and a "Bulletin for Game Hunters," the latter to elicit search support during hunting season.
What the Elizabeth Smart recovery demonstrated, in addition to the family's perseverance despite the odds, was the value of an informed, alert public.
Laura Recovery Center for Missing Children - Summary for 2002 [PDF: ]
www.planetpdf.com /mainpage.asp?webpageid=2653   (600 words)

  
 KOMO : National Groups Help Search For Local Teen
The experts are offering their help in the mysterious Nov. 5 disappearance of the Oak Harbor teen.
The Laura Recovery Center for Missing Children in Texas and Klaas Kids Foundation out of Florida came to Whidbey Island to teach a group of volunteers about the finer points of a search.
The lead volunteers will take the information they learn from the experts and share it with up to 200 other volunteers who will be part of the giant search for Elaine all weekend.
www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=34798   (301 words)

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