Generation Found

Eight people stand in a circle indoors with arms around each other’s shoulders, sharing a moment of unity. One person holds a microphone, and the background includes a whiteboard and beige walls, suggesting a classroom or community space.

Generation Found is a powerful story about one community coming together to ignite a youth addiction recovery revolution in their hometown — co-directed by Greg Williams, an addiction health strategist, storyteller, and person in long-term recovery, and Jeff Reilly.

Devastated by an epidemic of addiction, the city of Houston, Texas, faced the reality of burying and locking up its young people at an alarming rate. And so in one of the largest cities in America, visionary counselors, law school dropouts, aspiring rock musicians, retired football players, oil industry executives, and church leaders came together to build the world's largest peer-driven youth and family recovery community.

Independently filmed over the course of two years, Generation Found takes an unprecedented and intimate look at how a system of treatment centers, sober high schools, alternative peer groups, and collegiate recovery programs can exist in concert to intervene early and provide a real and tested long-term alternative to the "War on Drugs."

Free admission! The film is presented as part of "Recovery in Community," a three-part film series sponsored by Student Disability Services and Cornell Health’s Skorton Center for Health Initiatives.

Part of our "Recovery in Community" film series. Courtesy of the filmmaker.