Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Hello All,

Attached are the April 2016 Calendars.  Some highlights for this month include:

·         PRCC is moving!! We will still be located in the same building, but now you will enter through the first door (previously the Senior Center).  Our official move in date is Friday, April 1st so come by and visit us next week!
·         NEW!!! LGBT+ group entitled Pride and Awareness: Breaking Borders will be meeting everyWednesday from 3-4:30pm starting April 6th .
·         We have also added an additional Latinos in Recovery group meeting on Mondays from 1:30-3pm.
·         First Friday Series: Cross Systems Advocacy on Friday, April 8th from 12pm-3pm
·         Gateway to Work with Jack Land April 11th to April 15th from 10am-1pm each day
·         Volunteer Appreciation Dinner : April 14th, 4:00pm-7:00pm (please see me or John Carlson for an invitation or if you would like to donate)
·         Anger Management with Dr. Ijoy every Thursday from 3:30pm-5pm
Best regards,


JodyAnn Newell, CRS
Volunteer Coordinator
PRO-ACT/Philadelphia Recovery Community Center
1701 W. Lehigh Ave., #6
Philadelphia, PA 19132
Phone: (215) 223-7700 x 106
Fax: (215) 223-7707
Email: jnewell@councilsepa.org
www.councilsepa.org
www.proact.org

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1st East Coast Recovery Specialist Training
April 11 - 15, 2016
New York City, NY
pre-registration online thru PayPal or register at the door! 
 
International Recovery Institute training's provide the theoretical basis and ethical standards for services offered by Recovery Specialists.
Recovery Specialist is defined as an individual who provides one on one client and family services within a treatment setting and/or client's home community or travel and has completed the training offered by IRI and received a Certificate of Completion.  Common titles for the role of the Recovery Specialist may include: Sober Coach, Sober Companion, Personal Recovery Assistant, Transport (Safe Passage), Family Support Specialist, Case Manager, Direct Care Staff, etc.
Recovery Specialists work with client's and their families who suffer from substance abuse, addiction, mental health and eating disorders, process addiction and many other co-occurring issues.
The training provides an International Recovery Specialist Certificate of Completion by The International Recovery Institute as well as NAADAC approved CE hours to be utilized towards state and national credentialing certifications. Each training provides 40 CE hours with an optional 6 CE hours for 6 weekly consultations. NAADAC Approved Education Provider # 151526
Training objectives include increasing ethics, professional skills and knowledge of a Recovery Specialist.
Training outline includes topics such as:
  • History of addiction & mental health fields 
  • History of Recovery Specialists
  • Ethics
  • Role & Responsibility of Recovery Specialist 
  • Providing Safe Passage (transports) and many more  
New York City Event Lunch Sponsors:

Lindner Center                                           Transcend Recovery

Thank You to our
2016 National Sponsor

Presenting Sponsors
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Sunday, April 3 - Breakfast with the Angels 

You're invited to an Applebee's® Flapjack Fundraiser Breakfast to support City of Angels 

$8.00 per person
WHEN: Sunday, April 3, 2016
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

WHERE: Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar
333 State Highway #33
Hamilton, NJ 08619
Buy your tickets online ahead of time for quick seating when you arrive! Click here to purchase.
New on COA Recovery Radio
 
Last week's "Living Clean & Sober" is all about 
staying sober in college. The College of New Jersey - TCNJ - has just opened a sober home for students.They're one of just 3 collegiate sober living programs in the state of NJ.

Chris Freeman and Joe Hadge from TCNJ came
 into the station, and talked with show hosts 
Johnny and Ken about the college's new sober 
home, and how it can help TCNJ students with 
addiction issues maintain their recovery. 

Click here to listen to the show.

For more "Living Clean & Sober", click here.

Tune into the latest "Families and Recovery" for Gina and Carl's story, "Journey of Recovery". Ride the river of denial, smell the stigma of addiction. Welcome to the family. Why did my son have to have this disease? Hear about the hardest decision of their lives. Listen as MaMa Bear and PaPa Bear come to understand they need to go in the opposite direction. But it doesn't come so natural....

Click here to listen to this show. 
For past episodes of "Families and Recovery" on demand, click here.
Learn how to Harness the Power of Your Mind in the latest "Wellness in Recovery". In this show, host Carol Rickard shares tools for dealing with emotional challenges, including alternatives to eating, smoking, excessive shopping and other unhealthy coping mechanisms.  
Click here to listen to the show.

Carol Rickard, LCSW has written 10 books about stress reduction, weight loss, depression, smoking, wellness. She also works one-on-one with clients.To see her books, click here.

For more "Wellness in Recovery" on demand,click here.
No matter what you've been through, people will always want to know "what happened?" This question will be asked when someone is sexually assaulted, too. There are times when you will need to give details (for prosecution, or your own acknowledgement) and other times, when it's no one's business.

In the latest "Stop Feeding the Predators", host Lynn McClain talks about the graphic details of sexual assaults. (No actual details are given in this show. It is safe to listen.) She educates about who will need to know the graphic details, who doesn't, and why the details really don't matter in order to find YOUR emotional healing from sexual assault.

Click here to listen to the show.

For more "Stop Feeding the Predators", click here.
April 24 - 30 - Recovery Coach Training at COA
Developed by the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy at COA is a week-long training opportunity designed for those interested in serving as a recovery coach. It is the first peer-based recovery coaching and training program designed for people interested in guiding individuals into and through long-term recovery from alcohol and/or drug addiction. The next scheduled training is:

Program Date: Sunday, April 24, 2016 - Saturday, April 30, 2016

Location: First Baptist Church of Hightstown, 125 S Main St, Hightstown, NJ 08520

Register now to receive an early registration discount of $100!

For more details about this class, or to register online, click here.
New Resources for the Uninsured & Homeless

For anyone who needs detox or treatment for addiction but doesn't have insurance or is homeless, COA has just launched a new online resource. These pages have all the details on who to contact in each New Jersey county, as well as information for Pennsylvania residents. They also contain information about sober homes.

To go to the new COA Help page, click here.
Free Help with Taxes from United Way
If you made less than $62,000 last year, the United Way offers a program in which accountants will prepare your taxes free of charge. Why pay someone else to do your taxes if you don't have to? Yay, United Way!

For details, click here.

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