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When he’s not spending time with his wife and children or building a new piece of furniture, you can find Adam managing the operations, compliance and staffing as the COO of Asana Recovery.
A typical day for Adam involves morning meetings with the Operations team, Clinical team, and Leadership team to go over all of the day to day activities and make decisions on what needs to be done. He works with them to identify what is working well, and what isn’t and how it can be addressed and improved. He then spends the rest of his day reporting to the accrediting bodies, updating licenses and working on projects that will help the business grow and be a defining force in the industry.
Adam was led to work in this field due to a long history of providing services to others, so it was an opportunity to bring all of his past experience together and still be able to be of service to others. He loves that the industry is still a young industry, so there is a lot of opportunity to bring innovation and growth, which can have a huge impact on the individuals that come to Asana Recovery. He loves getting to see a client come in at their lowest, and see them invigorated by life by the time they leave. He uses his strengths of understanding all of the regulations and compliance issues that regulate this industry and building systems to track and manage all of the moving parts for his position. He also specializes in recruiting and screening staff members to fit with in our culture.
The most inspiring part of his job is seeing the clients graduate from the program with a new lease on life and getting to understand the true meaning of happiness and mindfulness.
Adam started his career working for a large treatment provider prior to Asana Recovery, where he was in charge of the facilities and community impact. This included generating awareness and dispelling the myths of Not in My Back Yard.
When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife of 18 years and his three teenage children. He loves opportunities to learn more through traveling and hearing of other’s stories. He also enjoys flying and has been working on his pilot’s license for the past few years. If he could travel anywhere in the world, it would be to Saigon in Vietnam. He has previously been to Hanoi, but would love the chance to see southern Vietnam and try more amazing food, meet great people, and enjoy the weather. When he has time, he also loves taking on new projects, like building furniture.
Adam takes a lot of inspiration from Elon Musk. He admires how much ambition he has and how he refuses to accept the norm. He believes in science, art and the advancements of the human race. He preaches and practices evolution, which is something Adam admires.
When we asked him to describe himself in three words, Adam’s answer was honest, reliable, and earnest. This is exactly how those around him view him, and what makes him such a great part of our team!
His advice for anyone looking into working in this field is to have an extreme amount of patience and empathy. He believes to work with individuals in recovery, you need to be able to listen, without providing advice and you need to be able to show empathy and sympathy even if what you are hearing is completely crazy.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to