Here is what one of the Wizard's Union Institute pals had to say about All About Receiving Cash during the early begging campaign:
"Dr. Audrey Olsen Faulkner, MSW, Ph.D., ACSW, Social Work Professor with the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in a letter to Diane Mirosh date August 30, 1993. “This letter is being written in support of the request of the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre (for) funding from the Government of Alberta…
My professional assessment is that the AARC is a model program, grounded in research on addictions and on adolescent development. It owes much of its success to an ongoing clinical research focus, to excellent selection and training of both professionals and peer counselors,"
The following are accounts of the situation at All About Receiving Cash by DavidPablo Escobar-Grant with regard to the staff at the time of M. Dr. Olsen Faulkner's sales pitch:
"We were chronically short-staffed at the time, and new peers needed to hit the ground running."
"We went through several "clinical" workers, adults who applied to work at AARC, and came with pretty good credentials. They usually had a limited grasp of the process, and often clients could sense this, which made it difficult to trust the clinical. We didn't have time to get outside people up to speed, and they would either sink or swim quickly."
