Our Founder

Our Founder, Tony Rassini, is 53-year-old man, father of four, grandfather of two. He currently is totally broke and has spent the last seven years of his life living in other peoples’ basements and extra bedrooms. He has relocated across the country five times in an attempt to find a career and constant income to support him and two of the four children who are still minors. Tony has been married three times, all of which have failed.

Tony is not an professional author and he has not written a book before his current publication, “Dad, It’s Time to Tell the Truth”, which serves as the basis for the ‘Our Family Plan’ program and the inspiration to develop  the 4 Family and Child organization.

To let Tony tell you himself, read the following:

   

My name is Tony Rassini I was born in September 1956 in Detroit,  Michigan.

 

This is my story . . .

 

My life growing up in a blue collar Italian family was simple, fun, and family driven for many years. Sunday’s were church and  then dinner at Nonna’s every Sunday, and summer vacations with extended family every year.

 

My life, until I turned 12 years old was little league baseball, football, and basketball.  Playing everyday with the same kids you went to kindergarten with all the way through high school.  

 

In 1968, my life changed dramatically when I was molested by a family member and it went on for four, long and painful years

 

On December 3rd.1986, at 2:30am sitting in my room I had an 1/8th of on ounce (street term 8 ball) of cocaine on the mirror, I had been on a 4 day binge no sleep, no eating. My nose so damaged from chronic use that it was bleeding profusely and I could not get the drug in my body.

At that moment, I reached under my bed and pulled out my 38  pistol, cocked and loaded, put it in my mouth I wanted to die but could not pull the trigger. I put down the gun and picked up the phone, I called a life long friend, “‘Hello,’ she answered. ‘I’m calling to say good-bye,’ I said flatly. ‘Where are you going?’ she asked. I said nothing.”

By the grace of my higher power she knew something wasn’t right and talked me into coming over, I did.

That evening was the deepest bottom I had ever hit at that point in my life. Not knowing the next bottom will include my kids…….

 

I stayed clean & sober for the next 12 1/2 years until July 1998,what began was an 11 year relapse which, combined with my marriage to an extremely educated and intelectual genius led me and all four of my kids through a living and yet silent hell.

 

By April 2009 I was completely empty in Mind, Body and Spirit did not even know it, until my son Nick called from jail and demanded the truth….