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 PEOPLE! is an innovative program designed to address addictions in the Merrimack Valley by providing a structured environment that offers peer led psycho-educational groups and emotional support,  service referrals, housing and employment  information.  PEOPLE!  Recovery Center provides a range of supports, activities, and opportunities to the  community of people in recovery, and to their families as well.  Building on effective models of peer-to-peer recovery support, the Center relies heavily on an array of community resources, including volunteers who are part of the recovery community and many partners that includes both grass-roots groups and substance abuse service providers.  Peer– to –peer  support is an effective method of allowing participants to be comfortable in our setting, and will encourage our diverse community to engage in safer, healthier life choices.  The Center provides a warm, welcoming place for people in recovery to get emotional support, practical resources, social affiliation, and  information. It engages participants in setting their own agenda in sobriety and for their overall interactions in Center activities.  PEOPLE! builds community support and resources. 

 

Relapse can often be prevented when time is organized in a healthy manner, and spent on improving healthy skills, developing new socialization patterns, and gaining greater self esteem. The PEOPLE! environment is safe and accessible, and provides the peer-to peer-support and structure  so critical for those individuals in early sobriety.   Activities include a monthly newsletter, bake sales that raise money for PEOPLE! activities, a weekly Dinner and a Movie, and daily groups - emotional / sobriety support , health information, parenting, photography, crafts.  Peers attend community substance abuse meetings, and have met with patients in a locked hospital unit to bridge the gap between a hospitalization and returning to a community without supports in place.

 

The overarching goal of PEOPLE! is to create a welcoming, diverse, participatory, and sustainable community that mobilizes peers, staff, volunteers, and the greater community to provide a range of emotional, social, and informational supports for people in recovery.

For more information, please click here to email Susan McGibbon.