| Saturday, Feb. 23: COA Open House |
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On
Saturday, February 23 from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, City of Angels NJ, Inc.
will host its 4th annual Open House at the Dwier Center (392 Church
Street, Groveville, NJ).
This
inspiring, educational - and free - event features a great lineup of
speakers including Dr. Karl Benzio from Lighthouse Network, who will
discuss how addiction affects the brain; Dr. John J. Blette, who will
describe evidence-based interventions for offenders; Justin Sabatino
from Recovery Compliance Inc., who will discuss personalized compliance
programs for recoverees; and keynote speaker L.A. Parker, who will talk about his journey of recovery to a successful career in journalism.
Many community groups and
treatment centers will be on hand to provide details about their
services, including Summit Behavioral Health, The Retreat, Seabrook
House, Livengrin, Addictions Victorious, Nar-Anon, Narcotics Anonymous,
Young People in Recovery, Celebrate Recovery, Launching Point, and many
others.
Refreshments will be provided by Groveville's best Italian restaurant, Family Nest.
Don't miss this
once-a-year opportunity to learn about new approaches to addiction
recovery and new resources for recoverees and their families.
For details about this event, including speaker times and bios, please click here. To watch videos of some of last year's speakers, click here.
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Sunday, Feb. 24: Art Retreat at COA
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From 2:00 to 5:00 pm on Sunday, February 24,
Red Tent Today will host an Art Retreat at the Dwier Center (392 Church Street, Groveville, NJ).
The Art Retreat is a spiritual
experience where participants use paints, pastels and other media to
create visual representations of their thoughts and feelings. It's also
just a lot of fun! No need to be an accomplished artist to join in...all
are welcome from the trendsetters to the "creatively challenged".
This event is limited to 15 people. There is no charge. If you would like to attend, please email CityofAngelsNJ@hotmail.com to reserve a place.
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Free Tax Help for Recoverees |
Have you claimed your income tax refund this year?
City of Angels NJ's Treasurer, Cathy Levine, has generously offered to provide free assistance filing state and federal income tax for any recoveree with at least six months in sobriety. Cathy is a certified public accountant (CPA) and for many years has run an accounting business.
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| Tidbits |
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COA hosts support group meetings
for both addiction sufferers and their families every day of the week
at the Dwier Center (392 Church Street, Groveville, NJ). This includes
12-step meetings, a Sunday night Spirituality Meeting and the popular
Sunday morning family support group, The Breakfast Club. To check out our online calendar, click here.
The COA website now offers an Addiction News Feed
with the latest studies, reports, new and other info on addiction. It's
updated in real time with the top 30 articles. To read the feed, click here.
New videos are up on the COA YouTube channel. To watch, click here.
Join COA's Pinterest community! To visit the boards, click here.
Keep
current on COA activites - join the COA group on Facebook! COA news is
posted first on Facebook, and this page often has photos not available
elsewhere. Click here to visit.
City
of Angels NJ, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides many
services to addicts and their families including interventions, recovery
support, Family Program, counseling services and more. All of our
services are provided at no charge.
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