The goal of the Robert Sundance Family Wellness Center programs is to provide community healing and wellness for generations to come. Through its multiple programs the Robert Sundance Family Wellness Center can address the unique emotional, mental, spiritual, cultural, social, and physical needs of those American Indians and their families, especially those dealing with recovery from substances abuse.
The Robert Sundance Family Wellness Center's mission is to provide quality Substance Abuse Counseling, Mental Health, Educational Health and Dental, Housing, Economic Development and Social Services to American Indians that reside in the greater Los Angeles area. This mission extends to groups and to individuals for these services, the RSFWC places high regard to cultural, tribal, spiritual and personal values and preferences of its American Indian clients, constituents and community members. The RSFWC is committed to serving them with respect and dignity. It is particularly committed to advancing the conditions of American Indian women, the homeless, impoverished, sick and subgroups of the American Indian community that have been greatly under served, and whose values and contributions have no received full recognition.
The Robert Sundance Family Wellness Center's mission is to provide quality Substance Abuse Counseling, Mental Health, Educational Health and Dental, Housing, Economic Development and Social Services to American Indians that reside in the greater Los Angeles area. This mission extends to groups and to individuals for these services, the RSFWC places high regard to cultural, tribal, spiritual and personal values and preferences of its American Indian clients, constituents and community members. The RSFWC is committed to serving them with respect and dignity. It is particularly committed to advancing the conditions of American Indian women, the homeless, impoverished, sick and subgroups of the American Indian community that have been greatly under served, and whose values and contributions have no received full recognition.
Social Services
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Senior Services
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The Robert Sundance story demonstrates that one man, notably one from the fringes of society, can change "the system." Robert was an American Indian from the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota who was introduced to alcohol at an early age. After spending nearly twenty-five years on skid rows across the American west, drunk, homeless, stricken over 250 times with DTs (Delirium Tremens), and illegally arrested nearly 500 times, Sundance decided to reform the system that unjustifiably incarcerated homeless street alcoholics.
Alcohol killed most of his drinking friends and counterparts, and it certainly could have killed him. His eventual "Sundance Court Case" led to radical reform of the process of arrest and conviction of public inebriates, and it helped create the process of alcoholic rehabilitation. No other single individual had done more to improve the American system of justice in regard to public Alcoholism.
Alcohol killed most of his drinking friends and counterparts, and it certainly could have killed him. His eventual "Sundance Court Case" led to radical reform of the process of arrest and conviction of public inebriates, and it helped create the process of alcoholic rehabilitation. No other single individual had done more to improve the American system of justice in regard to public Alcoholism.
