America’s Best Racing in partnership with Stable Recovery has produced a multi-part video series hosted by Lindsay Czarniak taking viewers behind the scenes to learn about the Stable Recovery program and those impacted by this powerful initiative.
The second installment explores the recovery process for Joshua Franks, who experimented with drugs and alcohol starting at age 10 and went to prison at age 25. Franks spent 10 years incarcerated and subsequently was in and out of the prison system for several years and homeless while battling addiction. Franks joined the Stable Recovery program in 2022 and discovered accountability, purpose, and joy for life through caring for horses.
“I was tired of living the way I was living, I wanted to make it,” Franks said.
Christian Countzler and Frank Taylor of Taylor Made Farm co-founded Stable Recovery to help those fighting addiction. Recovering residents attend the School of Horsemanship at Taylor Made Farm and join a peer-driven therapeutic community with a focus on securing equine-related employment. In a little more than two years of operation, the Stable Recovery program has 105 graduates that have reconnected with 1,600 family members, with 70% sobriety at six months and 100% sober and employed at graduation.
The first installment of the America’s Best Racing series focused on the journey of Edward “Boomer” Jones.
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