Cornerstone Recovery Inc

I give Cornerstone Recovery Inc. 5 stars. My son and family entered the program in a state of panic and disarray. The program introduced us to the 12 step recovery process and provided meetings, training, adventures and professional counseling to guide us and our son through the program. My son is now sober for 4 years and my marriage is back on track. All things don't always end up rosy as addiction is a deadly disease. We saw much heartbreak during our 4 years fully engaged in the program. You will get what you put into the program. I highly recommend Cornerstone. They saved our son's life.

In the summer of 2011 my family was absolutely crazy. My fifteen year old daughter had been using drugs. Her grades dropped and she was failing school. She was acting out and was completely uncontrollable. We discovered Cornerstone Recovery in the fall of that year and the healing began in our family. It was a rough start, but the counselors and the group really supported her. Meanwhile, I attended the parent meetings and "Climbers" and learned new parenting strategies and began my own recovery too. She participated in one of the Wilderness trips, which was a real turning point in her life. This program was a real godsend for our family and her. Today she has been sober 3-1/2 years, graduated from high school, works and is attending college. I truly believe that it saved her life.

When I came into Cornerstone Recovery I was broken. I was 19 years old, and had "successfully" been kicked out of college, and was facing criminal drug charges. I was finally able to find a place that I felt as though I belonged with Cornerstone. The unconditional love that was given to me was unbridled in my life, and I finally started to feel as though I could get better. My dad was in prison, my mom worked 2 jobs just to provide for us, and so I truly had no direction until I got to this program. Today as I write this I look back with 6.5 years sober, a beautiful wife, a loving "functional" family, and a great career. I would not be the man that I am today without this program. Thank you Cornerstone for everything that you have enabled me to become .

We have 2 children adopted from Eastern Europe who experienced family trauma & spent many years in orphanages. As teens they became heavily involved with drugs and alcohol. By the time we understood what was really going on, we were in a very bad place.

Cornerstone saved our family and our sanity as parents. I sincerely believe that one or both of my children would be dead if we had not found this program. We had tried so many things prior to Cornerstone - including years of intensive counseling - nothing but this program and the parenting tools they advocate worked. Our situation is not perfect today, but collectively as a family and individually we are all in such a better place.

We're forever grateful to Kirk, Lily, James, Scott and the rest of the amazing Cornerstone staff. Lily Kugler is an amazing counselor and all around saint!!!

Thank you Cornerstone!

Cornerstone Recovery Gave me another chance. I came in at 15 and i had been beaten and bruised by life and i didn't think i had another way out from my drug addiction. While in the program I lost friends, family members and every time life threw me another curve ball i had someone from the group there to hold my hand and tell me i would be okay. The staff and fellow clients at Cornerstone helped me see that i had another chance at life and even though life could be rough I would be able to get through it sober and with a head held high. I am now 19 years old and have recently celebrated almost 3 and half years sober. I'm working and saving up money to travel the world because it was a dream that I never thought was possible. The staff and my fellow peers have done nothing but support me and love me through my hard times. I'm beyond grateful for this program they gave me my family back, and i believed that i had burnt those bridges beyond repair. Cornerstone gave my father another chance at life as well. When we came in he was so shut off and gave anyone and everyone a cold shoulder and now i see him smile and meet everyone with a warm heart, a smile and open arms. Cornerstone helped change my life and my families life, we wouldn't be where we are emotionally, spiritually, or physically if it weren't for this program.

Dealing with my son's addiction is difficult, if we had not found Cornerstone it may have been near impossible.

What makes this organization great, is the people; the dedicated counselor's and staff, parents looking for answers and others opening their arms and hearts to new comers, and the kids. We spent four years in the program and during that time became part of the Cornerstone family. I've been able to share things about myself with this family, that I wouldn't feel comfortable sharing with my own family.

We participated in all aspects of the program; hosting kids, guys and girls nights, attending functions, softball, satellite, camp-outs, Friday fitness, Sunday bike rides and Awakenings. All of this helped me learn more about myself and make positive changes in my own life. Kids come and go in the program, but I've witnesses those that stay and work the program can change their lives for the better.

A special element of the program is the Adventure Learning Program (ALP), the kids that participate in this learn that they can do things they never thought possible. You can see the transformation as they build self esteem, achieve goals and find happiness without drugs or alcohol.

Through this program I was able to realize that I couldn't beat my son's addiction for him, ultimately he has to find his own willingness to beat it. Because of this program, I was able to find hope that one day my son may choose to be sober. The gift I was given by this program is peace. The credit for this gift goes to the counselors, parents and kids of this program.

I am truly thankful to Cornerstone. When I first started coming to cornerstone my sole purpose was to get my stepson “fixed”. I didn’t think I had any problems…well ones I needed help fixing except him. He was ruling our house, all our time was consumed with either dealing with him, trying to determine what and why he was doing what he was doing and how we could get him back on the right path and out of a life of drugs and theft. Fortunately what I learned was that his life lesson were not my responsibility and all my frustrations, fear and sadness for him and for my husband who so desperately missed and wanted a relationship with his son were nothing to do with either of them but all related to my own baggage. All of which impacted how I reacted or didn't react to the things going on in my house. After working through these items with my sponsor I was able to find my own voice and gain some self-esteem which I never realized I was missing because I was living in so much ego thinking I had everything under control. Now I am able to better let others take care of their own responsibilities without getting involved as well as love myself for who I am and set clear boundaries for what I need to live a healthy life. I am not perfect and neither is everything I deal with but I no longer feel like I live on a roller coaster and enjoy being able to have serenity even if the addicts in my life are in their addiction or not. I could not have done this without the help and love of the Cornerstone group. I will be forever grateful to this program, the staff, the teens and parent group.

Cornerstone helped us bring sanity back to our home. We thought we were doing the right things for our kids, but instead were enabling them and their addictions. By working the program, and continuing my own AA program we were truly able to do the right things for our family. It is parent driven recovery and the parent group and counselors have been awesome. We met people with similar circumstances, and learned to talk to others and enforce personal boundaries. I have formed some of the best relationships of my life, and restored sanity to my daily life. Thank you Cornerstone!

In 2007 when our son was out of control my wife and I were at our wit's end. We had no idea where to turn and everything we did seemed wrong. A friend told us to "check out a place called Cornerstone, heard it's good" On our first visit we knew we were in the right place. The "parent driven recovery" theme, the parent support group and working the 12 Steps got us off our heels and put us back in charge of our family. Cornerstone saved our marriage and our family. Our son still struggles (and will for the rest of his life) but he keeps trying. I learned to support him in his recovery and send him on his way and not enable him in his addiction. For his part he learned and accepts this as part of the consequences of his actions. I no longer ride an emotional roller coaster with the ups and downs of his recovery and live my life in the serenity and confidence that I'm making the right decisions thanks to the Cornerestone Program and family.

From chaos & hopelessness, to peace & hope, God is at work in this program so blessed to live in Houston, this recovery program is unique in the way it helps families, as a parent initially seeking help for my kid, who didn't want help, transforming my life was the catalyst of change, my restoration of sanity, love of self, self esteem, eventually my kid sought help, they went out of their way to help us financially, please support this life changing recovery program

Our family will be forever grateful to Cornerstone Recovery for the support given to our family. We had two daughters in the program over a 4 year span and the outcome is that we have good relationships within our family that we would never had dreamed of because of this program. Cornerstone can be life changer for the better if you allow it.

Cornerstone’s Adventure Learning Program (ALP) is amazing. I’ve seen first hand how it has changed lives. From “Friday Night Fitness”, to Sunday night mountain biking in Memorial Park, to Wilderness trips in the Rocky Mountains, this program builds self esteem and heals and strengthens bodies. And it is a ton of fun!

If we had never been introduced to Cornerstone, I truly believe that I would be telling you how our daughter died of drug addiction. Though in recovery myself, I was in so much denial when it came to my child. She had seen what addiction and alcoholism had done to her father and me. Surely there was no way she would take part in activities that would have such devastating consequences that she had seen firsthand. Wow, what I had forgotten was this is a disease. It’s not something my daughter chose – this deadly disease chose her!
Additionally, in the beginning I did not participate with the parent program. I had my AA program and support group and she had her Cornerstone Program and friends, and that was just fine with me. What I came to learn was that Cornerstone is ALL about Parent Driven Recovery. When I started participating with the Parent Group, of course my daughter did not like it at first. I was now putting boundaries in our home. Cornerstone showed me how to be the parent my daughter NEEDED, not the one I thought she wanted. After a small amount of time passed, this small amount of participation with other CS parents paid great dividends with me and my daughter’s relationship!
We came to Cornerstone 6 years ago. My daughter is clean and sober and is an entirely different young woman than she was 6 years ago. There is so much love and respect for each other in our home. The entire family dynamic has changed with recovery being first for each of us.
I will ALWAYS feel indebted to Cornerstone and all of the staff! I tell everyone I know, “Alcoholics Anonymous restored my marriage. Cornerstone not only restored our Family, it gave this family unity and love like was never present in our home before!”

My family found out about Cornerstone Recovery in 2008. I thought my son was just "experimenting" with drugs, but soon found out he was using regularly and dealing. I learned that the only difference between using and addiction was time. With the help of a positive peer group for my son and a separate peer group for my husband and I we were able to learn new tools to help us parent in a much more effective manner. We were able to get on the same page and parent as a team. We were able to reduce the chaos and replace reacting with anger with responding with love. The group helped my son and saved my marriage.

Our family was in chaos, living in fear, anger, resentment and didn't know what to do when we learned our daughter was an addict. This program has taught me to live with addiction. I learned I don't always get what I want--my daughter to stop being an addict and living the life I want for her--but I learned how to face challenges and be stronger and a better for having faced those challenges. The Cornerstone family is a place of hope and support to get you through the rough times and taught me how to laugh again and take care of myself. I am so thankful for Cornerstone.

My journey with Cornerstone began in May of 2009 when we finally took our blinders off and came to the realization that our daughter had a real problem. We had no idea what to do or where to go but thankfully found Cornerstone and attended our first meeting. Our daughter refused to go but we went anyway and got enough from our first visit to give it a whirl. I was fearful of the parent group at first and while I did attend meetings every week I was hesitant to get involved. I did however become very involved with getting to know the kids in the group and listening to their stories and their needs. I was amazed at how candidly they talked about their addiction and how much confidence they had in trusting me with their past. I soon began to realize that I needed to be more involved with the parents and began to get to know them as well. I felt a lot closer to the parents because I already knew their kids and while I couldn't share with them everything I knew I could express to them how great their kids were. My daughter had a very up and down road to travel before she finally found true recovery and has since Awakened (graduated) from Cornerstone and has over four years of sobriety today. After a couple of years in our son came into the program as well and since we already had a lot of experience it was much easier getting him in and working on his recovery. He too has had a rough ride but has over 3 years of sobriety behind him. In the meantime, I have worked hard to give back to the program and help others that are coming in to Cornerstone in hopes to smooth their path. I have served on the Parent Committee twice and now am a Co-Parent Coordinator for The Woodlands group. I was talking with another parent last night about how I just can't imagine where I would be without Cornerstone and how much it means to me. As one of our alumni continues to remind us, "We came for our kids, but we stayed for ourselves. Nothing compares to the parent driven approach.

My wife and I brought our 13-year-old son to Cornerstone in 2008 this was almost 8 years ago through counseling meetings retreats healthy choices and honesty our family had a real chance to be healthy and stay together. we live a life of recovery and have shared this in many ways. we only want to give to others what was given to us. Hope was by far the greatest gift. I have been around recovery since 1/21/83.

Cornerstone has been the most hands on active accountable group I have ever been a part of. If u want hope come and be a part of!

Cornerstone gave me the ability to deal with the addiction that ruled my house. It saved me from the misery that I was feeling while watching my kids spin out of control. Going to my first meeting was the best thing I every did. I have seen and been part of several programs in the recovery community and Cornerstone is special.

The Cornerstone program is effective because it targets so many different areas of the teens' life and allows for enough time to be able to make a sustainable change. The combination of family involvement, positive peer influences, and individualized treatment encourages the teens to continue to be involved in activities and pushes them to grow. Staff is available to the teens and families for extended hours throughout the week. The commitment from everyone involved in the organization shows that there is a true passion for recovery here.

Cornerstone saved my son, and it saved my family. While my son learned to live a sober life and gain tools to help through the rest of his life, I learned how to parent an addict and regain control of my home and my own life. The parent group gave me a solid foundation of hope, knowledge and support. The teen group gave my son a sober peer group that accepted him but held him accountable for his choices. If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to save a child. Cornerstone was that village of parents, teens and counselors working together to bring recovery to families and heal them.

The lives of thousands of people have been affected by the positive impact of Cornerstone Recovery. Out of all of the alternative peer groups in the greater Houston area, it affords teens and families a truly unique recovery experience. There is no secret to their success rate and there's noting "magic" about it. It's simply born of a desire to maintain the highest levels of care through accountability, transparency, integrity, and honesty.

Although not perfect, I find this organization and it's staff to be unfailingly mission oriented. The staff that I've encountered there are truly dedicated to the point of going above and beyond what I would expect of a 12-step based self-help program.

Cornerstone is also unique in their approach with families. They combine traditional clinical services with adventure based activities to truly create amazing opportunities for healing and growth.

I would highly recommend this organization to any family in need.

Cornerstone not only helped my using Teen but also myself and her siblings who were also affected by her using. Cornerstone went above just teaching my Teen how to have fun inside recovery and helped build up her self-esteem as well. Which is why it also worked for my daughter that did not use. It also helped me learn how to parent my using Teen in a much more effective way and helped learn how to set boundaries in my own life. For the first time I did not feel as if I was fighting this battle on my own but I had a whole team of people helping guide me through the process all the way from Counselors to other Parents and teens in the group. I always felt that my teen was the first priority and it was not just about how much money they could get out of me. Which was not my experience in other programs we had tried before Cornerstone.

My recovery started in 2004 by being introduced to the outreach activities Cornerstone provides. I felt loved and accepted by my peers and believed wholeheartedly that the staff and counselors cared about helping me. The counselors worked just as hard for my recovery as I did. They were honest, loving, compassionate and held my feet to the fire. They advocated for me and my recovery with my parents and did not give up on me. I've had the privilege of being involved with Cornerstone Recovery for the last 10 years. Cornerstone gave me the tools necessary to build a foundation for my recovery. That foundation that I built within the 2 years I spent in Cornerstone has enabled me up to succeed long after I graduated the program. I celebrated 10 years at the beginning of 2015. Many of the teens I went through the Cornerstone program are still sober as well as part of my support group. The organization has grown and develop to meet the needs of their clients over the years. There is a high level of commitment to honesty, integrity and growth that each staff member and counselor has to help teens and their families.

Cornerstone was key in transforming my son and my family! What started as our worst nightmare (addiction) ended up our greatest blessing (recovery and healing). Through this program, my son not only got sober, he learned how to live life and still have fun without drugs and alcohol! Today he is in college, has healthy self-esteem and is working toward a bright future. As a parent, this program helped educate me about the disease of addiction/codependence, and taught me how I could make some changes to be part of the solution and not part of the problem! It’s the guidance of this passionate and dedicated staff, in combination with the clinical components, the adventure learning opportunities, the alternative peer group, and parent & teen meetings that make Cornerstone one of the most comprehensive and effective recovery programs available! And the love. There’s lots and lots of love.

I have personally seen Cornerstone Recovery make a difference in the lives of families in Houston. The staff is dedicated to what they do and the organization offers a surprisingly wide range of services from counseling to wilderness activities and practically everything in between! I would definitely recommend Cornerstone Recovery to any family in need.

Cornerstone is one of the best programs that I know of that facilitates true change in families that are in need of it. One of the hardest things to do as a therapist is to be able to work with a family through a crisis and help them move into a lasting and sustainable new way of living. I've personally experienced Cornerstone affecting that change in the lives of the families that the staff works with. They work to keep families invested for 2-3 years, offer different avenues to seek recovery (12-step support, group therapy, wilderness and adventure learning), and focus on the family system as a whole, not just the individual with the presenting issues. The commitment level of the staff goes above and beyond normal expectations. They are talented in meeting a family where they are at and guiding them through the process of change, as well as at taking a treatment team approach when assessing the families' needs. I would highly recommend this program to any parent or teen in need of support through early recovery.

I have been privileged to support Cornerstone as a volunteer for several years and have the highest regard for their leadership and staff, as well as much love for and fellowship with their client families. I have also been fortunate to meet and know several of their dedicated and positively-engaged board members. Throughout the organization there is integrity, accountability, honesty, transparency and genuine love for the children and families they treat. Every word spoken and every act performed serves the mission of bringing hope and healing to those who seek treatment in this exemplary program. With luck, I will be able to continue as a volunteer for years to come and continue to witness the miraculous transformation of addicted teens into strong, proud, sober and honest young adults. If you can afford to give of your time or resources, I can recommend no better organization. It has been a blessing to me to serve.

"The Program" is basically Kirk Campbell. He is the visionary and the one that motivates and keeps the ball in motion. The company itself has a history of overworking their employees, to which almost every counselor that has left, says leaving ultimately was the best thing they did. The program requires total commitment from the family in order to achieve success. This is a good thing. However, over working young counselors in the field leads to burnout rates high in industry, and is sad because they will not go back into this field. Also, The BOD shows absolutely NO control or accountability to the President. She implements and pursues her own personal objectives and disguises them well behind her academia background. She talks the program but does not live it in her own life. She gossips about employees and clients, and her leadership skill is marginal. She is a brilliant woman, she just should stick to her skill set.

My wife found this group called Cornerstone. I went and what struck me about the meetings was the others who kept quiet and listened to the person sharing. It gave me the courage to speak too. I started sharing more and things began to make sense. I learned the principals of the recovery program. I kept a steady pace of going to meetings and tried to learn from my mistakes. Successfully completing my stepwork gave me the courage to keep going. Our daughter's recovery spurred mine. Our daughter entered the outpatient treatment program and made her own way to the meeting place every day. This was a very important step in her recovery; she needed to learn how to take care of herself. She graduated from a sober school she had enrolled in, and did a fine job too. Her true self was finally making itself known. She went on the Wilderness Trip with Cornerstone. When she returned, I arrived at the airport and was looking for her when I heard her voice and turned to see her running at me - full tilt. She hit me at full speed, almost knocking me over. I have seldom felt as good in my life as when she hugged me. My Real Daughter was shining through.

"I was so depressed that I walked around every day and wanted to kill myself. When I got in Cornerstone, it took the focus off of thinking like that. Cornerstone is a miracle and there is nothing like it anywhere else. I am so grateful that I found it, because there are kids out there who won't find anything like it. I have a relationship with my parents now. I can walk around with my head held high. I'm not alone, and I'm not depressed. Cornerstone is a miracle, and I'm so grateful."

STEVE'S STORY: Cornerstone is a blessing. They gave my son, Dan, structure, guidance, direction, and love. When held accountable for his actions, he realized the consequences. The big one was losing Cornerstone. The thought of not being with his friends and counselors made him reconsider quitting. Without Cornerstone, I think Dan would be in jail or dead. He was on a horrible path, and they showed him an alternative way. He has the knowledge and tools to face anything. I am proud of the man he has become. I thank God that Cornerstone was there to help him change. DANIEL'S STORY: At first I came to meetings, but that was all. I pushed away love and the program. The result was that I got high. I was powerless over my disease. I came home and physically assaulted my mother. I wound up downtown, bloody and bruised. That's what it took for me to ask for help. Cornerstone loved me at my worst, and loved me til I could love myself. They taught me how to be honest, how to really love someone. I have peace. I respond instead of react, and I know how to Love, and know without a doubt that I am loved. That is what living is all about, and Cornerstone Recovery gave me that.