My Proposal: Genius Hour Problem The problem is that there are too many adolescents that suffer from addiction and are limited to their resources for any type of recovery. These adolescents are limited to government funding rehabilitation programs or behavior programs. Being government or state-funded these facilities are restricted on their methods of treatment and their funding comes from government or state requirements that must be implemented in their form or method of treatment. Rehabilitation is narrowed to just a few subjects which would be the using of such substance, behaviors, and abstinence of such substances. These don’t even scratch the surface of the real issue and very few centers have any type of support system set up after the discharge of a person after in-patient treatment is completed. There are some programs set up to spread the awareness of drug and alcohol abuse to youth one that you may be familiar with is D.A.R.E, as well as red ribbon week. These program...

 Over the past week and a half, I have had many encounters with recovering addicts.  It's easy for me to contact addicts in all stages of recovery. I belong to a fellowship that is based on recovery and I myself am a recovering addict. I chose to base my project on adolescents that suffer from addiction. And at the time I felt like I had plenty of resources to complete this project and hopefully reach at least one person with the message of we do recover. I am very passionate about recovery and I would like to give back to the communities in which I have taken from. My plan for my "Genious Hour" was to video interview addicts that have a desire to change their lives. I was wanting to get not only adult but also youth that could speak about their story and help others relate through their life story and combine the message that an addict can lose the desire to use and find a new way to live. I know that with my own personal recovery I can relate to life stories I have hear...