The Center for Recovery Resources
At The Center for Recovery Resources, we believe that the key to long-term recovery is a strong foundation of support and community. The Center is a communal space for individuals and families seeking support for substance misuse and addiction-related issues. We host an array of peer-based, non-clinical programs, and services including recovery coaching, support groups, educational workshops, and drug-free/sober community events.
Conveniently located in downtown Claremont, The Center aims to serve communities throughout The Greater Sullivan County region. We collaborate with local businesses, emergency response personnel, police departments, physical and mental health providers, social service agencies, and educators to help address the needs of their respective clients, patients, and students through mutual referrals. For more information or to make an appointment for recovery coaching, please call 603-287-7127.
Conveniently located in downtown Claremont, The Center aims to serve communities throughout The Greater Sullivan County region. We collaborate with local businesses, emergency response personnel, police departments, physical and mental health providers, social service agencies, and educators to help address the needs of their respective clients, patients, and students through mutual referrals. For more information or to make an appointment for recovery coaching, please call 603-287-7127.
What is Peer Recovery?
Some of the most well-known methods of support for individuals with substance abuse and addiction issues involve medical treatments. While these clinical interventions can be effective at alleviating some of the intensity and side effects associated with withdrawal and detox recovery is not about abstaining from drugs.
While recovery is a journey that is unique to each individual who makes the decision to embark on it, there are some commonly accepted ideas of what that process consists of. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has identified 4 major dimensions that should be addressed in the process of recovery - Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.
The mutual aid (peer support) model can be traced back to the 18th and 19th centuries when Native Americans held “recovery circles” that incorporated the entire community in the healing process. The first fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous was formed in the 1930s and has since led to hundreds of variant programs that follow the 12 step model. Despite being referred to as “self-help” programs recovery fellowships thrive and survive on the power of communities coming together to share the compassion and knowledge found only in shared-lived experience.
Peer Recovery Coaches are people who have life experiences similar to those they serve (recoverees) and offer support through the utilization of skills-building techniques, solution-based planning and ethical boundaries. Trained coaches help navigate the complexities of early recovery by bridging connections between their recoverees and supportive resources across communities. The primary goal of any coaching relationship should be the recoveree’s development of self-efficacy through role modeling and mirroring. This is essentially the difference between empathy and sympathy.
While recovery is a journey that is unique to each individual who makes the decision to embark on it, there are some commonly accepted ideas of what that process consists of. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has identified 4 major dimensions that should be addressed in the process of recovery - Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.
The mutual aid (peer support) model can be traced back to the 18th and 19th centuries when Native Americans held “recovery circles” that incorporated the entire community in the healing process. The first fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous was formed in the 1930s and has since led to hundreds of variant programs that follow the 12 step model. Despite being referred to as “self-help” programs recovery fellowships thrive and survive on the power of communities coming together to share the compassion and knowledge found only in shared-lived experience.
Peer Recovery Coaches are people who have life experiences similar to those they serve (recoverees) and offer support through the utilization of skills-building techniques, solution-based planning and ethical boundaries. Trained coaches help navigate the complexities of early recovery by bridging connections between their recoverees and supportive resources across communities. The primary goal of any coaching relationship should be the recoveree’s development of self-efficacy through role modeling and mirroring. This is essentially the difference between empathy and sympathy.
Peer Recovery Services
Recovery navigators, resource brokers, peer helpers, recovery mentor, peer recovery coach… there are several different names given to the men and women who do this work, but the core services provided in a peer-based setting include:
Adapted from SAMHSA’s Recovery Community Services Program Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and The History and Future of Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support Services by William L. White, MA
- Peer mentoring or coaching—developing a one-on-one relationship in which a peer leader with recovery experience encourages, motivates, and supports a peer in recovery
- Peer recovery resource connecting—connecting the peer with professional and nonprofessional services and resources available in the community
- Recovery group facilitation—facilitating or leading recovery-oriented group activities, including support groups and educational activities
- Building community—helping peers make new friends and build healthy social networks through emotional, instrumental, informational, and affiliation types of peer support
Adapted from SAMHSA’s Recovery Community Services Program Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and The History and Future of Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support Services by William L. White, MA
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Parents Together
Parents Together is a weekly workshop for families in early recovery. This educational workshop is designed to support families navigating the complex journey of parenting in recovery from addiction and substance misuse. We will be working with families to assist with common barriers such as transportation, and providing meals during group. Participants can earn up to $150. For more information, click here.
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Why I Serve
I was raised with manners, morals, and principles, made good grades in school, and was overall a good kid. When I was 15 my dad went to prison and my life turned upside down. I went into foster care and a boys ranch.
At 19, I discovered methamphetamine. It made all my pain go away and increased my rage and anger. I continued to use for 20 years, the last 10, every day. It got to a point where it stopped working no matter how much I did. I climbed the ranks of a violent motorcycle club until I was president of a support club. 20 years of blood, sweat, and tears, but when I needed my brothers the most, they left me behind. So that, coupled with a terrible relationship, equaled my rock bottom.
I was contemplating suicide. I gave my shotgun to my daughter and called my little brother who had just come back into my life. He was on deployment so I talked to his wife. She had a sister who was connected with recovery work in New Hampshire, so she bought me a bus ticket to her house in Virginia where I detoxed for a month, then came to New Hampshire. Through a recovery center, I discovered SMART Recovery which has helped me remain sober for 14 months now.
A friend of mine told me AmeriCorps was looking for recovery coaches. I applied and through numerous interviews and a three week training, I became a volunteer for them. I have been placed at TLC and The Center for Recovery Resources to use my experience in addiction to be a light for those still lost in the darkness of addiction.
Jeremy Hartsell
AmeriCorps
At 19, I discovered methamphetamine. It made all my pain go away and increased my rage and anger. I continued to use for 20 years, the last 10, every day. It got to a point where it stopped working no matter how much I did. I climbed the ranks of a violent motorcycle club until I was president of a support club. 20 years of blood, sweat, and tears, but when I needed my brothers the most, they left me behind. So that, coupled with a terrible relationship, equaled my rock bottom.
I was contemplating suicide. I gave my shotgun to my daughter and called my little brother who had just come back into my life. He was on deployment so I talked to his wife. She had a sister who was connected with recovery work in New Hampshire, so she bought me a bus ticket to her house in Virginia where I detoxed for a month, then came to New Hampshire. Through a recovery center, I discovered SMART Recovery which has helped me remain sober for 14 months now.
A friend of mine told me AmeriCorps was looking for recovery coaches. I applied and through numerous interviews and a three week training, I became a volunteer for them. I have been placed at TLC and The Center for Recovery Resources to use my experience in addiction to be a light for those still lost in the darkness of addiction.
Jeremy Hartsell
AmeriCorps
Contact Us
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Wayne Miller, BS, Certified Recovery Support Worker
wayne@tlcfamilyrc.org Call or text: 802-294-2755 Jeremy Hartsell, AmeriCorps jeremy@tlcfamilyrc.org |
Location
1 Pleasant St., Suites 104 and 105 Claremont, NH 03743 603-287-7127 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/recoveryresourcecenter |