MRC Recovery Spotlight: Gloria Englund
My hope of recovery was restored because I saw a recovery organization working hard to honor all pathways to recovery.
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East African Women and Recovery
I am an East African woman in long term recovery. What this means to me is that I get to be the mother my children deserve to have in their...
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A Pie Pathway to Recovery
The key to both baking and recovery is to pay attention to what resonates with you and make a practice of it In honor of National Pi(e) Day (3-14), MRC...
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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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