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EARLY MORNING RECOVERY 21ST GROUP CELEBRATION
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EARLY MORNING RECOVERY
21ST GROUP CELEBRATION
50 ESCHER STREET
(BASEMENT) REAR
TRENTON, NJ
JUNE 16, 2012
8:30 – 11:00 AM
FOOD, FUN, & FELLOWSHIP
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Recovery Weekend XXVII Speakers Wanted!!!
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Speakers Wanted!!!
Do you have experience and a working knowledge of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions?
Would you like to share the experience, strength, and hope of your journey through the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions?
Sign up today and join us at
Recovery Weekend XXVII
Sept. 28 through Sept. 30, 2012
Contact:
Michele S. 
(609) 731-5192
Ted T. (609) 647-8174
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Recovery Weekend XXVII
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Recovery Weekend XXVII
Sept. 28 through Sept. 30, 2012
YMCA Camp Ralph S. Mason
23 Birch Ridge Road Hardwick, N.J. 07825
$ 115 per person early bird
Free t-shirt included
$ 120 per person after August 30th
(No personal checks accepted after August 30, 2012)
There is a charge for day visits. Please call for info
Lodging, meals, canoeing, boating, fishing, archery, riflery, nature walk,
NA MEETINGS, and new this year “Zip Line”
Please bring with you: bedding or sleeping bag, pillow, clothing, toiletries.
Optional: flashlight, folding chairs, fishing gear, etc.
We are staying in SPRUCE LODGE again this year.
Make check or money order payable to CAASC
Mail to: Capital Area Recovery Weekend
P.O. Box 649
Trenton, N.J. 08605
Contacts: Michele S. (609) 731-5192
Ted T. (609) 585-8055
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Mission & philosophy
The mission of The Bridge Way School is to offer a strong academic program to students in grades 9–12 who are in recovery from substance abuse and/or addiction that allows them to focus on learning in an environment in which sobriety is required and supported. We believe that a sober school that incorporates 12-step principles is a key component on the continuum of treatment and recovery management.
While the paramount objective of The Bridge Way School is to provide a meaningful and challengingeducational program, we recognize that our students need time during the school day to develop tools and strategies for maintaining sobriety. These combined objectives will help our students succeed on the life-long road to recovery as they continue to live, work, and play in their communities.
Finally, The Bridge Way School strives to empower students to continue their road to recovery beyond their attendance at our school as they continue onto another secondary school, college, or career.
Welcome to The Bridge Way School– Philadelphia’s first recovery high school.
We are accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and provide a challenging academic program for students in grades 9 – 12 in an environment that requires and supports sobriety utilizing 12-step principles.
The Bridge Way School may be right for you if
you have at least 30 days of sobriety
you are actively working a recovery program
you seek a strong college-preparatory program that recognizes individual learning styles
Summer Session from July 9 – August 17
Offering summer credit-recovery courses, sober outdoor activities including horseback riding, certified clinical recovery supports and professional drug testing. For more information.
An Insider’s Perspective
Charlie Hugo, a young adult sober since the age of sixteen, talks about his experiences attending a recovery high school and later college. Attending a recovery high school allowed him to build lasting relationships with others, facing similar problems. “Treatment alone isn’t enough.”
Watch the video, an »insider’s perspective on recovery education.
The Bridge Way School
4101 Freeland Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19128
267-437-2194
About us
Horizon High School is an emotional growth, recovery high school. This means that although there are aspects of the program targeted at teens in recovery, anyone that needs an alternative to a traditional high school setting is welcome.The classroom setting is small, in order to promote an individualized curriculum and to allow for students' needs. Horizon High School's guideline for enrollment is to maintain a student-teacher ratio of five to one. Currently Horizon has a part time counselor, full time teacher and part time director. As more students enroll, more staffing will be considered. Our student population varies and is usually between 6-9 students.
To maintain an engaging and educational atmosphere, Horizon High School incorporates guest speakers and field trips. Generally, an outing is planned every week. Speakers who highlight many topics of interest, particularly related to recovery, make occasional presentations.
Since our creation, we have served over 60 young people. Today many of these are enrolled in colleges and colleage universities, employed, or in the military.
Curriculum
The Horizon High School curriculum integrates interest groups and differentiates students based upon their career goals and academic needs. Institutional approaches focus on discussion and hands-on rather than busy-work. However, there are classes that students need to take, both to fulfill credit standards and to have a traditional classroom experience in preparation for post-secondary career or vocational goals.
Our History
In March 2004, 6 individuals (mostly parents with kids in recovery) got together for coffee at SunPrint on Odana Road, to discuss the concept that one of us (Shelly Dutch) described as essential for teens struggling with alcohol and drugs: recovery schools, where our kids could go after getting out of AODA treatment. We started doing research and found there were about 20 around the country, with most in Minnesota. Another member of the group had intimate knowledge of the local school system and advised that attempting to charter would probably not succeed. That November we received a $10,000 gift from a family, which was enough to start up. In December we incorporated, got all the paperwork together, hired a young teacher and in late January 2005 opened operation with 5 students in a church basement. Soon we had 9. And as they say, the rest is history.
For more information, contact:
Traci Goll, Director
608.335.0387
ttgoll@tds.net
Or write to:
Horizon High School
P.O. Box 45045
Madison, WI 53744in
5005 University Ave
Suite 130
608.442.0935
The Hansen Foundation's objective is to help recovering addicts by assisting those in need to access treatment. The Hansen Foundation owns and operates three Serenity Houses, supportive sober-living houses in South Jersey. The Serenity Houses treat each resident as an individual with her or his own unique circumstances in order to help them sustain a life in recovery.
The Hansen Family
Through their own family struggles during Jennifer's 10-year battle with drug addiction, Roger, Edwina, Jennifer and Erika Hansen recognized the need to address the lack of affordable, long-term residential treatment facilities in their community for people seeking to change their lives through recovery.
The Hansen Foundation was formed to support Jennifer's dream to open such a facility, hence, the Hansen House in Galloway Township, New Jersey was born. Hansen House for Men opened its doors in 2004. Hansen House for Women opened in 2006. Hansen House is currently owned and operated by Hendricks House of Vineland, NJ. For more information about Hansen House, click HERE.
Erika, Roger, Edwina & Jennifer Hansen
In 2007, the foundation established its first Serenity House, a restorative sober-living residence for women in Absecon, New Jersey, and in 2011, Serenity House Meadows in Pleasantville, New Jersey opened, as well as The Randy Scarborough House for Men in Somers Point, NJ (a division of Serenity House).
For more information about Serenity House and The Randy Scarborough House,
visit website HERE.
By Join Together Staff | June 29, 2012 | 4 Comments | Filed in Addiction,Drugs, Government, Healthcare, Legal & Treatment
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is extremely uplifting for the substance abuse field, according to A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, CEO of the Treatment Research Institute and former Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Dr. McLellan, who served on President Obama’s healthcare reform task force, notes the debates and research around the ACA produced two startling facts. “First, unaddressed substance use now costs mainstream healthcare upwards of $100 billion annually, particularly in areas such as ER and trauma care, but also in the treatment of virtually every chronic illness,” he said.
Dr. McLellan added that because of the severity and complexity of their conditions, the 23 million ‘addicted’ Americans are disproportionately costly – but it is the 40-45 million Americans with lower severity but still significant ‘harmful substance use disorders’ who comprise the largest burden of illness and cost to healthcare.
“The second realization produced in the ACA debates is that while there is provision to treat ‘addiction’ in specialty care programs(though clearly more coverage is needed) there had never been healthcare benefits or reimbursement options for those with ‘harmful substance use,’” he noted. “Thus, one of the historic aspects of ACA is the requirement that care services for the full range of substance use disorders be part of the ‘essential benefit design’ in all health plans.”
Dr. McLellan called this “the beginning of a new era in prevention, early intervention and office based care for patients who are not addicted – but whose drinking, smoking, and use of other substances is harming their health and compromising the effectiveness of the care they are receiving for other illnesses and conditions.”
The Supreme Court on Thursday largely upheld the constitutionality of the Obama Administration’s health care law. The mandate was upheld as a tax.
Hi!
Thanks for your invite to join your group with such a key mission! We'd love to pair with you to do some outreach if that's something you might be interested in. We are a structured sober living program that is unique in our mission (to genuinely help addicts to regain a MEANINGFUL life through activism, responsibility, and compassion), our long-term emphasis (absolute minimum stay with us is 6 months but most clients stay 1 year and our program is designed to last up to 3years), and our dedication to healing the whole person rather than solely treating the disease. We require clients to secure part-time and then full-time employment while with us (once they are medically and psychologically ready) and we also emphasize strong sober social competence. We do cater exclusively toward professionals (or former professionals) and students. Please let us know if we can be of any assistance to you as (with a goal as broad as ours), we can use all the teamwork we can get : )
I will absolutely post information on our program onto your page! I will also keep you posted on events- we host an annual International Treatment Center Cooperative Conference (ITCC) and would be glad to keep you informed of impending dates and programs. We are located in two states with 3 properties around Vero Beach, FL and one in Alexandria, VA (outskirts of DC). Thank you again and I look forward to continued correspondence
Best,
Lauren Ashley
GRR Intern
tiptonl@thegrr.com
843.283.8068
