Keeping Families Together with Peer Recovery Support
Minnesota Recovery Connection recently started a new program partnering with Hennepin County's Children and Family Services (CFS). The program pairs Peer Recovery Specialists with mothers who are struggling with substance...
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MRC Recovery Spotlight: Kiwanis Vilella
Minnesota Recovery Connection is a Recovery Community Organization - a grassroots nonprofit whose staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors are all people in personal or family recovery or are community...
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Beyond Backgrounds
"I believe that housing is a human right." Peer recovery support is a non-clinical, strengths-based approach to helping individuals on their recovery journey. It's provided by people who have lived...
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A Year of Sunrises
There's no getting around it, 2020 was a challenging year. It was especially hard on people with Substance Use Disorders. Structural racism, stigma, and health disparities exacerbated by COVID-19 collided...
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Recovery Month 2020: HOPE Spotlight
Recovery Month 2020: HOPE Spotlight Meet Jennifer Storm, a woman in long-term recovery. At age 12, Jennifer Storm was raped after drinking beer and passing out. Alcohol and drugs then became...
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Recovery Month 2020: Recovery Professional Spotlight
Recovery Month 2020: Recovery Professional Spotlight Meet Anderson Saint Georges, MA, LADC, CPP, a 2019 graduate of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies. "It is said that...
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MRC Recovery Spotlight! Julie Shade
As we navigate these challenging times and Minnesota’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we work hard to continue serving the recovery community in the most effective ways possible. We are...
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Recovery Community Organizations on the Rise: Meet RAD!
Recovery Community Organizations (RCOs) like Minnesota Recovery Connection are independent, non-profit organizations led and governed by representatives of local communities of recovery. RCOs honor all pathways to recovery and are...
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MRC Recovery Spotlight: Howard Collier
If I were to go back in time, I'd tell myself that it’s okay to be just as I am, to fully accept and be aware of my God-given gifts...
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