“Unresponsive.” I can still see that word vibrating on the screen of that stupid old iPhone. That word would describe my best friend of 12 years, who had encountered a fate that we are all too familiar with; she lost her life to the disease of addiction. My name is Naomi and I’m a person in long-term recovery from a …
Anchorage “Super Advocate” Advocacy Training
This free one-day training offers tools and hands-on practice for advocating for policy and funding decisions that affect justice-involved individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual/developmental disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, traumatic brain injury, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Who is this training for? Peers and people with lived experience of incarceration, family members, providers of services, administrators, and …
Want to end homelessness? Start with getting people into recovery
James Randall joined the Army at 18, was deployed to the Middle East and came home an alcoholic. His addiction led to his being discharged not only from the Army, but into the streets. He was homeless for two years, sometimes in a drug-induced psychosis, and was arrested more than 20 times. After his last arrest, he chose to go to King …
Fairbanks Community Organizing Training
The Fairbanks Opioid Workgroup and Facing Addiction with NCADD will host a community organizing event on Thursday, October 25th, 4:00-8:00pm at Bread Line, 507 Gaffney Road. The purpose of the training is to begin the process of organizing individuals, families, communities, organizations, and other stakeholders to fight for better public policy and services around addiction, treatment, prevention, and recovery. Click …
Vanderbilt Recovery Support: Connecting Students In Nashville
Binge drinking, blacking out, experimenting with drugs—it’s all considered pretty “normal” as far as the college experience goes. Some students’ GPAs suffer as a result. Some have to drop out of school. Though it might seem simple to write this off this as excessive partying and adolescent irresponsibility, where does that leave students living with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)? The …
Stay Day- Suicide Prevention
Join us at MyHouse on September 19th between 10:30AM-6PM for our Stay Day, a suicide prevention campaign launch. We will have an original song by Justin Pendergrass, BOGO in the cafe, boutique drawing, the ACES Film, and a panel discussion about resilience. Hope to see you there! Click here for more information.
Recovery 5K- Fairbanks
Join Turning Point Counseling Services, Fairbanks Opioid Workgroup, Alaska Therapeutic Court Alumni Group, and Interior AIDS Association for a Recovery 5K in Fairbanks. More information and a link to register can be found here.
More Than Twelve Steps: Staying Sober When You’re Gay
September is National Recovery Month. There will be events all month long celebrating those in recovery, and highlighting the options available for those who choose to be sober, as well as many chances for people to tell their stories. In honor of this, I have decided to tell some of my story, and the challenges faced by the LGBTQI+ community …