OUR MISSION
"Our Mission at Matthews Hope Foundation is to restore the fullness of life to each client we serve.
Our unique and highly effective Care Model significantly reduces relapse and overdose death and
guides our clients into full long-term recovery of their physical, emotional, and spiritual sense of self
and ultimately results in the redemption of their relationships with their loved ones and their creator. "
"Our Mission at Matthews Hope Foundation is to restore the fullness of life to each client we serve.
Our unique and highly effective Care Model significantly reduces relapse and overdose death and
guides our clients into full long-term recovery of their physical, emotional, and spiritual sense of self
and ultimately results in the redemption of their relationships with their loved ones and their creator. "
What’s in the name “Matthew’s Hope”? Here is the story that grew into a greater divine mission:
Matthew refers to Matthew Glenn Wedekind, a brilliant and gifted young man who passed away at the young age of 24 because of a slip and fall accident related to a previous head injury. He became an opioid addict as a result of opioid pain prescriptions over a 7-year period of time as a result of several Ice Hockey related shoulder injuries as a teenager that required extensive shoulder surgery and a severe multiple head trauma injury with severe headaches and seizures when he was 21. Matthew struggled with his opioid addiction but was in recovery at the time of his death. Matthew’s father, Larry Wedekind, is determined to leave a legacy in honor of his son – a legacy of Hope for long term ABSTINENCE-BASED sobriety and recovery using evidence-based microcurrent neurofeedback and long-term Recovery Support Teams post-discharge from detox/Rehab Centers for the 22 million Americans with Substance Use Disorder (SUD).
Hope is in the empowerment fueled by the wisdom and God-given determination Larry has gained as a father who lost his son after battling his son’s disease of opioid addiction for over 7 years. It is also gleaned from the lifetime of experience Larry has in the healthcare field and as CEO of IntegraNet Health, a Population Health management company based in Texas. Larry is therefore uniquely qualified to lead the charge in bringing to market an evidence-based Abstinence-based solution to the death and despair that the current opioid crisis has wrought upon the individuals, families, communities, and our society at large. Larry is one of only a few healthcare professionals who has years of experience in the Provider, Payer, and Policy sides of healthcare. Larry is a determined and committed triple threat to the opioid disease epidemic and he is aggressively using all of his extensive knowledge, relationships and experience to eradicate this devastating disease.
On several occasions over a 5 year period, Matthew had discussed that he was going to die young; telling his father that he (Larry) would outlive his son. This caused Larry much consternation, but Matthew was absolutely sure of this fact and convinced his father that it would indeed happen, although Matthew had no idea how or when. While having dinner together at Matthews favorite Asian restaurant the night before he had his accident and died, he told Larry that he was going to start attending Tallowwood Baptist Church in Houston and find a Christian woman to marry and have kids, but that Larry and his wife DeDe must be prepared at any time to help his future wife parent his children. Larry assured Matthew that he and DeDe would do all that was necessary to be good grandparents and to be there for his wife whenever needed. Matthew hugged his Dad as they said their goodbyes outside the restaurant and Matthew then shocked his Dad with the statement that he had been given a very important message in a dream the night before. “ My early death is necessary for you to accomplish a very special purpose in your life that God has for you, and you will only be able to accomplish it after I die. I don’t know when or how I will die, but it will be way before you do Dad. You will know your special mission after I die and God will give you the strength to accomplish it.”
And the next day Matthew was dead.
Through all the haze and fog, drowning in a sea of confusion, anger, and the hopelessness of coming to grips with the loss of his younger son and then having to help his older son through his personal grief from losing a dear brother, Larry realized through his grief and suffering that his God-given mission was to protect others from a similar fate and to eradicate opioid disease from America.
A Mission much too impossible to do alone. Larry realized that only through God’s divine help, leading, grace and mercy would this Mission and Vision take place and be fruitful. Larry did rebel for several months as this realization of God’s seemingly impossible expectations took hold of him and he realized that while nobody may be immune from the devastation of opioid addiction, it didn’t mean they could not be saved. There is hope for a broken life and a fractured family to be reclaimed through the divine grace of redemption. Larry uniquely understands healthcare delivery at all levels and now understands addictive disease from a parent’s perspective. Furthermore, through extensive research, he understands what is missing in our opioid disease care model and how to coordinate and deliver the interventional care needed to produce long term abstinence based recovery and sobriety. He also understands the policy initiatives needed to eliminate addictive opioid demand and the supply chain that fuels it.
Larry sits on the Board of Directors of the Goodman Institute; a healthcare and tax policy Think Tank, and writes healthcare policy articles of importance to the country.
Matthew refers to Matthew Glenn Wedekind, a brilliant and gifted young man who passed away at the young age of 24 because of a slip and fall accident related to a previous head injury. He became an opioid addict as a result of opioid pain prescriptions over a 7-year period of time as a result of several Ice Hockey related shoulder injuries as a teenager that required extensive shoulder surgery and a severe multiple head trauma injury with severe headaches and seizures when he was 21. Matthew struggled with his opioid addiction but was in recovery at the time of his death. Matthew’s father, Larry Wedekind, is determined to leave a legacy in honor of his son – a legacy of Hope for long term ABSTINENCE-BASED sobriety and recovery using evidence-based microcurrent neurofeedback and long-term Recovery Support Teams post-discharge from detox/Rehab Centers for the 22 million Americans with Substance Use Disorder (SUD).
Hope is in the empowerment fueled by the wisdom and God-given determination Larry has gained as a father who lost his son after battling his son’s disease of opioid addiction for over 7 years. It is also gleaned from the lifetime of experience Larry has in the healthcare field and as CEO of IntegraNet Health, a Population Health management company based in Texas. Larry is therefore uniquely qualified to lead the charge in bringing to market an evidence-based Abstinence-based solution to the death and despair that the current opioid crisis has wrought upon the individuals, families, communities, and our society at large. Larry is one of only a few healthcare professionals who has years of experience in the Provider, Payer, and Policy sides of healthcare. Larry is a determined and committed triple threat to the opioid disease epidemic and he is aggressively using all of his extensive knowledge, relationships and experience to eradicate this devastating disease.
On several occasions over a 5 year period, Matthew had discussed that he was going to die young; telling his father that he (Larry) would outlive his son. This caused Larry much consternation, but Matthew was absolutely sure of this fact and convinced his father that it would indeed happen, although Matthew had no idea how or when. While having dinner together at Matthews favorite Asian restaurant the night before he had his accident and died, he told Larry that he was going to start attending Tallowwood Baptist Church in Houston and find a Christian woman to marry and have kids, but that Larry and his wife DeDe must be prepared at any time to help his future wife parent his children. Larry assured Matthew that he and DeDe would do all that was necessary to be good grandparents and to be there for his wife whenever needed. Matthew hugged his Dad as they said their goodbyes outside the restaurant and Matthew then shocked his Dad with the statement that he had been given a very important message in a dream the night before. “ My early death is necessary for you to accomplish a very special purpose in your life that God has for you, and you will only be able to accomplish it after I die. I don’t know when or how I will die, but it will be way before you do Dad. You will know your special mission after I die and God will give you the strength to accomplish it.”
And the next day Matthew was dead.
Through all the haze and fog, drowning in a sea of confusion, anger, and the hopelessness of coming to grips with the loss of his younger son and then having to help his older son through his personal grief from losing a dear brother, Larry realized through his grief and suffering that his God-given mission was to protect others from a similar fate and to eradicate opioid disease from America.
A Mission much too impossible to do alone. Larry realized that only through God’s divine help, leading, grace and mercy would this Mission and Vision take place and be fruitful. Larry did rebel for several months as this realization of God’s seemingly impossible expectations took hold of him and he realized that while nobody may be immune from the devastation of opioid addiction, it didn’t mean they could not be saved. There is hope for a broken life and a fractured family to be reclaimed through the divine grace of redemption. Larry uniquely understands healthcare delivery at all levels and now understands addictive disease from a parent’s perspective. Furthermore, through extensive research, he understands what is missing in our opioid disease care model and how to coordinate and deliver the interventional care needed to produce long term abstinence based recovery and sobriety. He also understands the policy initiatives needed to eliminate addictive opioid demand and the supply chain that fuels it.
Larry sits on the Board of Directors of the Goodman Institute; a healthcare and tax policy Think Tank, and writes healthcare policy articles of importance to the country.