ABOUT

CRESCENT MOON

CENTER

A Place for Healing

Through Horses & Art

Crescent Moon's program is hosted by the Solano Land Trust at Rush Ranch in Suisun, CA, a 2070 acre nature preserve of rolling marshland hills. It is a land rich in cultural history, once home to the Patwin Indians. It primarily serves the needs of people who live in Solano County and the Greater Bay Area, but accepts participants from other counties and beyond. 

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OUR MISSION

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Crescent Moon Center’s mission is to build a community of support around individuals recovering from substance use disorders by: 

(1) offering equine-assisted learning and expressive arts programs; 
(2) creating a lens of discovery into addiction; 
(3) embracing diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our organization; and
(4) advocating for change in the public’s perception

of substance use disorders.

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OUR VISION

Crescent Moon Center is a program for people who have exhausted their resources trying to maintain sobriety, or who have not been able to take advantage of costly recovery programs and/or who are searching for new and creative ways to enhance their sobriety.

We offer a bridge for people working on recovery, a bridge that helps avoid relapse, a bridge to a meaningful and life-fulfilling engagement with community.

OUR WHY

Crescent Moon offers arts and equine programs designed to integrate with one another, each providing a unique lens of self-discovery.

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Through co-creative expression and equine-assisted learning, Crescent Moon Center offers an experiential approach to recovery, one that is based on learning through personal observation and interactive experience. This experiential approach is followed by reflection, integration and application of newly learned perspectives. 

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Our multi-cultural co-creative educational programs are for people who have exhausted their resources trying to maintain sobriety, those who have not been able to take advantage of costly recovery programs, or those who are looking for new and creative ways to enhance their recovery. 

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Crescent Moon bridges the gap between residential and outpatient programs, and sober living homes. We provide support for reintegration into meaningful personal relationships and employment.

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GET

INVOLVED

You may have heard about, or known someone whose life has been touched by opioid, alcohol or other drug addiction - whose addiction has resulted in the loss of friends, family, work or, worse yet, resulted in the loss of a loved one.

Action can and must be taken to prevent substance use disorders from compromising lives. More programs and a community interested in helping those affected are needed to support long term recovery after treatment ends, or if treatment is unaffordable. This is our mission. 

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Together, we can be a moving force in creating an environment where recovery can become a dynamic, engaging, transforming and exciting process - and accessible to everyone.​

Crescent Moon Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law.

"HOW WE RESPOND TO THIS [ADDICTION] CRISIS IS A MORAL TEST FOR AMERICA. ARE WE A NATION WILLING TO TAKE ON AN EPIDEMIC THAT IS CAUSING GREAT HUMAN SUFFERING AND ECONOMIC LOSS? ARE WE ABLE TO LIVE UP TO THAT MOST FUNDAMENTAL OBLIGATION WE HAVE AS HUMAN BEINGS: TO CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER?"

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- Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A. Vice Admiral

U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General (2016)