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Anne Burnett Young was recently hired to lead the Young Adult and Relapse Recovery programs at Cornerstone of Recovery, a drug and alcohol treatment center in Blount County.

The Fountain City resident and Newport native comes to Cornerstone, founded in 1989 and today one of the leading treatment facilities in the nation, from Peninsula Lighthouse -- an outpatient program affiliated with Peninsula Hospital -- where she served as program director since 2003.

Prior to that, she held a variety of positions within the Peninsula organization, including helping to establish Peninsula Village -- a residential program for adolescents -- when she first entered the recovery field as a substance abuse counselor in 1986.

In addition, Young serves on the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Advisory Council, appointed at the discretion of the governor and meeting regularly with the state commissioner of mental health and disabilities. She chairs the East Tennessee region of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network and is a community trainer in Suicide Prevention. One of her passions, she said, is co-occurring care -- the treatment of the mind, body and soul -- and Cornerstone, she believes, is on the cutting edge of such treatment, thanks to Cornerstone Integrative Health Associates, an alternative pain management clinic located in Alcoa.