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Livengrin Family Therapist Alicia Schreiner-Orr with Ed Mondillo

Attorney Allen Toadvine and his wife, LuAnn, with Livengrin’s VP of Business Development Sue Bright and her husband Rick

Board Member Bruce Murray and wife, Ginny (AMICare Founders) and son Glenn

Board Member Julie Negovan with husband Mark Board Member Mike Astringer lets Andrew Blacker try out his motorcycle

Independence Lodge Sober Living Founder and CEO Bryan Kennedy with a couple of our local heroes

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Livengrin Patient Care Coordinator Dana Curran with Gianna Kirlin

Livengrin CEO Rick Pine with District Judge elect Mike Gallagher, Board Member Pam Janvey and PA State Rep. Gene DiGirolamo

Livengrin VP for Development Scott Blacker with Ruth Arneo and Mitchell Rubin

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Mike Astringer with Alicia Schreiner-Orr and Ed Mondillo Kids have a blast on the slide

Livengrin Quality Improvement Associate Kristy Naughton with daughter Hannah Rush

Courtney Jones Moore, daughter Molly, and Kelly Moore enjoy the festivities

Riders eager to take off from the Bensalem campus

Ride Committee members Bryan Kennedy, Micki Kaisinger, Cheryl Jennings, and Scott Blacker

Enjoying the refreshments are Livengrin staff member Rob D’Onofrio with Sarah Taylor and Kathleen Murray

Emilie House Co-founder Micki Kaisinger and Livengrin Director of Detox and Utilization Review Cheryl Jennings with Bensalem police officers

Ride attendees Rachel Parello, Jen Marra, and Shannon Karby pose for the camera

Riders take off on their scenic route around Bucks County

Anne Marie Serpico, Amber Evans, and Ride Committee member Sue Davies man the raffle table

Pam Janvey with Scott Blacker

For more information, contact: (215) 638-5200 x 1011Giving the Gift of Recovery for Life

Livengrin Foundation • 4833 Hulmeville Road • Bensalem, PA 19020

Joe DeMaio with son (and future rider) Vincent Sue Bright and Cheryl Jennings enjoying the picnic

Livengrin supporter Mark Daley of MDC Contractors with Rachel Salmon

Sarah Stecker with daughter Rebecca

Livengrin Webmaster, Ryan Roth tries to get on the good side of Sweet Pea Ice Cream staff

Clinical Outreach Representative and Bicycle Ride Chair, Dave Alfe finishes the inaugural R4R bike run

The gang from Emilie House squeeze for a photo: Carina Trainor, Ryan Kaisinger, Patrick Kaisinger, Mike Kirlin, Micki Kaisinger, Kate Entrican, and Sam Kaisinger

Livengrin Development Associate, Maureen Coulter (ground) with fiancé Tim Rudderow, Jr. and Ride donors Tim and Judy Rudderow

Attendees letting us know what they thought about the event (thumbs up!)

A young rider takes in the live music of the band, The Mixxtape, offered at the event

Emilie House co-founder and Ride donor Gary Kaisinger with Max Martini See you next year!


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On Sunday, May 31st, Livengrin hosted its 11th Annual Ride for Recovery motorcycle and bicycle run and picnic, and it was a huge success! Thanks to our participants, sponsors, alumni, friends, and families, we were able to exceed our goal, raising more than $110,000 for patient programs and charity care—ensuring that thousands of patients and their families receive effective and affordable treatment.

A total of 152 motorcyclists and six bicyclists of all ages and walks of life took a tour of the region, and over 1,000 Ride supporters joined us for the afternoon family picnic.

We also raffled off chances to win a Harley Davidson Softail Slim motorcycle. Our winners:

1st-Maureen Fossil, Holland, PA2nd-James Lombardo, Hamilton, NJ3rd-Drew McHugh, Edgewood Park, NJ

Coverage by the Bucks County Courier Times, CBS Philly, and other print, broadcast, and internet media spread the word about the Ride and its purpose to bring awareness to the public about recovery and stigma.

Alcoholism and drug addiction is a growing crisis

in our community, affecting 2 in 3 local families. It is through support from our local families, businesses, and communities that Livengrin is able to provide help and hope to those struggling with the disease.

This event was made possible by our generous sponsors, including Innovative Risk Solutions, Joseph Jingoli & Son, Parx Casino, USA Architects, and the Haugland Family Foundation.

The Ride Committee, comprised of both Livengrin staff and community volunteers, committed months to planning, fundraising, and organizing to deliver a safe, fun, and inspiring event. They include: Micki Kaisinger & Cheryl Jennings (Co-chairs), Sue Bright, Dana Curran, Bryan Kennedy, Ryan Roth, Maureen Coulter, Scott Blacker, David Alfe, Renee Arnao, Kristy Loughridge, David Romero, Kate Entrician, Ralph Miller, Alicia Schreiner, Scott Fleming, Bobby Bruner, Rick Bright, Gary Bradshaw, Gary Kaisinger, and Jim Skudris.

Thank you to all of those who contributed to the Ride’s continued success and helped to advance the mission of Livengrin Foundation!

Livengrin’s 11th Annual Ride for Recovery Raises Money & Awareness for Addiction & Treatment

Motorcycle raffle winner Maureen Fossile with Chuck Kinsing



Parx and Livengrin Team Up to Fight Gambling AddictionParx Casino, a hub of entertainment in Bensalem, PA, will be donating $75,000 over the next three years to help Livengrin develop its new Gambling Addiction Recovery Program. We are excited to commence this partnership, effective immediately, to provide successful and affordable education and treatment to those suffering from this disease.

With this investment, Parx Casino is continuing its tradition of philanthropy and service to the local community. Parx recognizes the rising problem of gambling addiction, which often accompanies addiction to alcoholism and drugs. By joining forces with Parx, Livengrin will expand and improve its current Outpatient Program for problem gambling, addressing a growing need in our area.

Livengrin Spruces Up Detox FacilityThanks to a generous grant from TD Bank Foundation, Livengrin has renovated five rooms in our detox, providing a more welcoming environment for our incoming patients. We gutted the bathrooms, painted the walls, and purchased new beds, bedding, and decorations. We are now revamping our admissions area, creating a brighter and warmer space while also accommodating new patients’ and families’ privacy concerns. Livengrin’s goal is to not only provide excellent service throughout each patient’s continuum of care, but to also create a setting that offers comfort to patients and families during the initial admitting process, which is always a very trying time.

This spring, we received grant awards from the Austelle Foundation, based in Montgomery County, and the Norman Raab Foundation, based in Bucks County. Austelle provided a partial scholarship for a military veteran to seek treatment in Livengrin’s First Responders Addiction Treatment (FRAT) Program. The Raab grant came from the Foundation’s Philanthropy Today program, which is a student-led giving club offered to a selection of public high schools in Bucks County. A student group from the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology toured the campus and learned about Livengrin’s mission and programs, reinforcing the importance of service and philanthropy to these young leaders. The students awarded the gift to be used for our charity care program.

Save the DateSaturday, October 10, 2015

Our annual community appreciation event, Back to Livengrin Day, has been scheduled for this fall on Saturday, October 10th. Hundreds of alumni, families, and community members join Livengrin for a fun-filled day of food, rides, fellowship, and an open 12-Step meeting. Mark your calendars!

New Grants from Austelle

and Raab Foundations

Support Veterans and Charity Care


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Board Member Joe Jingoli, Jr. Helping the Livengrin Community Today and Tomorrow

Prominent New Jersey contractor Joe Jingoli, Jr. was first introduced to Livengrin Foundation several years ago through the Foundation’s Vice President for Business Development Sue Bright and her husband Rick, who was serving as chair of Livengrin’s Ride for Recovery Corporate Sponsorship Committee at the time. Inspired by the mission and the passion of the organization’s staff and alumni, Joe has become one of Livengrin’s unsung heroes, joining the Board of Directors and raising tens of thousands of dollars every year for the Ride. In addition, Joe founded “The Farm Team”, an innovative non-profit that partners with Livengrin to provide a firm foundation for those in early recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.

“Recovery is very important to me. Providing direct scholarships to people who really want it –the options of inpatient treatment can change a life. It changes the family,” he said.

Along with his brother Michael, Joe took a fourth-generat ion regional construction company and built Joseph Jingoli & Son into an international

firm doing business in 10 states and three countries. The company specializes in real estate development and design, pre-construction and construction services, site development, and transportation infrastructure. Projects include the new Bucks County Courthouse and Garage in Doylestown, and various large-scale educational, health care, industrial, and retail facilities.

Joe’s success in the business world has enabled him to make a significant impact in the local recovery community. The Farm Team is “a way for newly sober people to see the benefits of recovery, to work a day job on a farm. We help them with a scholarship to Livengrin, and the job helps them pay to live in a recovery house,” he explained.

“It’s hard (for someone new in recovery) to get a job and keep a roof over their head. Over time, we help these people identify specific skill sets to find work. The Farm Team brings in Livengrin Alumni who have experienced the consequences of addiction, such as legal fees and fines. We help with job career placement. The support network includes grants to treatment and counseling,” he said, providing a strong level of support to Livengrin Alumni in their first few years of recovery.

Joe summed up the reason for his continued commitment to Livengrin: “I believe that, dollar for dollar, Livengrin is the best return for our families. The support it provides for recovery in the greater Bucks County community is at the highest level.”

Joe lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with his wife, Shannon.

Joe Jingoli, Jr. has made a true impact on the recovery community

“Providing direct scholarships to people who really want it can change a life. It changes the family



Hometown Livengrin Booster Gene DiGirolamo: The “Father” of the Drug and Alcohol Movement in PAA lifelong resident of Bensalem, Bucks County, State Representative Gene DiGirolamo is serving his 11th term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Over the past 20 years in Harrisburg, DiGirolamo has been a vocal advocate for access to drug and alcohol rehabilitation, individuals with special needs, and the improvement of student athletics statewide.

For the 2015-16 session, he is serving a third term as the majority chairman of the House Human Services Committee, a position where he can effectively continue his advocacy of issues relating to drug and alcohol treatment and prevention, physical and intellectual disabilities, and individuals with mental illness.

Five years ago, Rep. DiGirolamo authored legislation to increase funding for drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and to establish a separate state cabinet agency, the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, to streamline drug and alcohol treatment services in Pennsylvania. The legislation was signed into law as Act 50 of 2010. In addition, DiGirolamo authored Act 148 of 2012 to create methadone death and incident review teams in cases where methadone was either a primary or secondary cause of death.

Rep. DiGirolamo has received numerous accolades from the drug and alcohol treatment community for his efforts, but one award in particular stands out. In 2000, he received the Standish Forde Hansell Award for Excellence in Leadership from Livengrin Foundation.

While he appreciates the public recognition, Rep. DiGirolamo is most proud of his son, who has 16 years of long-term recovery from an addiction to heroin. In 1999, his son was a patient at Livengrin while DiGirolamo was serving in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. It was in Harrisburg where DiGirolamo met Deb Beck from DASPOP (Drug and Alcohol Service Providers of Pennsylvania). After sharing his story with her, they began working together to get help for people needing treatment—which meant changing the culture in the state capital.

“After a couple of months, my son relapsed and came back to Livengrin. Rick Pine, Livengrin’s CEO, called me and

recommended that my son try a change of scenery in a new treatment center in Florida. As a parent suffering with an addicted son, we jumped and helped him relocate to Florida. Everything clicked,” he said. Besides treatment, DiGirolamo’s son lived in a halfway house and recovery house in Florida.

“He got a job. He rode a bicycle to work. He settled in the community and met his wife and they are a very happy family today,” he continued. Livengrin was an essential part of the younger DiGirolamo’s recovery, providing education and support, and “planting the seed” prior to his relocation to Florida and his ultimately successful recovery.

Inspired by his own personal experience, DiGirolamo and Deb Beck from DASPOP continued working tirelessly to change hearts and minds in Harrisburg in order to increase accessibility to and funding for drug and alcohol treatment.

“Once you can get their mind to understand that it’s a disease, and (it won’t be solved by) putting addicted people in jail, you’ll change their thinking. It’s not just bad decisions,” he said. “Slowly, I changed the (Republican) Caucus. People started seeing it (addiction) as a disease.”

In recent years, Rep. DiGirolamo has worked to add millions of dollars to an “emergency residential treatment fund” for those in need and fighting to expand Medicaid in PA.

Livengrin Foundation has been a beneficiary of Rep. DiGirolamo’s leadership in many ways, including the construction of our Residential Houses on campus in 2011. While his accomplishments are numerous, he knows that there is still much to be done. He plans to continue to spread awareness about the disease of addiction and to guide resources to much-needed rehabilitation programs, so that individuals and families can receive life-saving treatment.

Gene Girolamo used his leadership to increase access to treatment for thousands of families

Julie Negovan joined the Livengrin Board of Directors in 2009 because she felt drawn to the mission. “I love being involved with the recovering community and am inspired by those who are able to overcome such a devastating disease. By being on the Board, I feel like I am able to help out in some way. I’m also excited to be on the Executive Committee for the first time this year, leading the Board to help Livengrin achieve its mission.” Julie has helped to raise funds for the Ride for Recovery and Annual Gala, and is on both the Development and Strategic Plan Committees, helping the organization to strategize for the future.

Julie is an attorney at Spruce Law Group, LLC, in Philadelphia. She focuses her practice on construction, energy, health care, class actions, mass torts and complex commercial litigation. In addition, she has extensive e-discovery experience, including project management, litigation holds, forensics and production.

She represented an international wind turbine manufacturing company in multiple commercial suits across the country, including managing its e-discovery effort in the EU and U.S.

in connection with litigation involving claims in excess of $100 million. She has represented contractors, developers and owners in all facets of construction litigation, and has defended many medical institutions and their members in civil suits.

She is a frequent author and speaker on legal issues. She was named a 2006 Lawyer on the Fast Track by American Lawyer Media and a 2005, 2006 and 2007 Pennsylvania “Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine. More recently, Ms. Negovan was named to Best Lawyers® 2014 (Commercial Litigation) and to Super Lawyers® 2013 and 2014.

In addition to her service at Livengrin, she is vice chair of the Board of Directors of Bucks County Choral Society, a 150-member volunteer choral organization providing fine arts performances in Bucks County. She is also a Republican Committee Woman for Warwick Township, Bucks County.

Julie Negovan, Esq. A Rising Star at Livengrin

4833 Hulmeville RoadBensalem, PA 19020

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