Austin Founder Lions Club

The Sobering Center

  • 18 Jul 2019
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • TSBVI, 1100 W 45th Street, Building 603, Austin TX 78756

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:
  • make your meal selection (if any) at the next step
  • make your meal selection (if any) at the next step

The Sobering Center

July 18,2019


 Christine Hassall
Introduced by Lion John Nyfeler

The Sobering Center Austin provides a safe environment for publicly intoxicated individuals to sober up and, when appropriate, initiate recovery

The Sobering Center Austin is for persons who meet the legal definition of intoxication. Individuals may only be referred and transported to the facility by law enforcement or emergency medical services. It is not a place where friends or family members can bring someone to sober up.

About our speaker: Christine Hassall is a manager at The Sobering Center, where she began work in March of this year. Her job there is to help connect clients to treatment. Prior to that she was program director for Right Step, Austin, an outpatient substance abuse facility.

Christine relocated to Austin 10 years ago from Scotland where she spent 16 years as a family practice physician. She became interested in addiction mainly because she saw her patients were not receiving the help they needed. She retrained to gain expertise in the addiction field and opened methadone clinics for her patients.

When she relocated to Texas, Christine realized her passion was in counseling and she was active in that field for seven years before taking on her current position.

Christine is the proud mom of three children. She has two sons who are Eagle Scouts and she spends her spare time volunteering with the Scouts. Christine also enjoys walking her dog on Austin’s wonderful trails.


Featured Lunch Meal $12:

Lasagna
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Chocolate Cake


Optional Lunch Meal $12:
Chef Salad

Meals provided by Manny Sifuentes, manager at Cafe del Rio, a business staffed by the Texas Commission for the Blind.
    
Please register by 5 p.m. on Tuesday

We order meals based on your reservations and must pay for them even if you do not show up.
If you need to change or cancel your reservation, please call 512-441-1555.

 Drive slowly on Campus! 
Remember that the speed limit at TSBVI is 10 mph.

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