Set in the rolling hills of Southeast Georgia, Pine Woods Retreat, as depicted in these renderings, will provide an individualized and holistic approach to Recovery, addressing the physical, mental, social, vocational and spiritual needs of adults who are Learning to Live with mental illness.

The brain diseases referred to as "mental illness" are common. They affect 20% of the population. The most serious forms of mental illness affect approximately 5% of the adult population. Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives. The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.

There is a tremendous unmet need for Recovery and Rehabilitation Programs for people who suffer from mental illness. Between 70 and 90% of people with these diseases can live independent and productive lives if they receive proper treatment and support.

The development of Pine Woods Retreat began when families who needed such services for their loved ones could not locate available services. Those families, with substantial input from their loved ones in need of treatment, designed Pine Woods Retreat based on, and with the assistance of, the successful program currently in existence at Rose Hill Center, in Holly, Michigan. They also received substantial guidance from professors at the Medical Schools of Emory, Harvard and other major universities and treatment facilities.