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Originally Posted by ger715
Wide-O,
In my 12/17 post to SC, I mentioned my daughter, a recovering cocaine addict, who in the past few years she has gotten Certification in Recovery Support Specialist for Mental and Substance Abuse as well as Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor. She owes so much to AA and still maintains going to meetings regularly.
She is also working with the police departments in one of the suburbs. It is a program the Police Department is working with in an effort to spread to other communities.
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Thanks Ger! And yes, I do remember. What's even funnier in a way is that I have been thinking - while working with these people- "why don't we also seek contact with police departments?" only 2 days ago. It's on my to do list to bring it up, but as a newcomer I have to move slowly...
Things are moving very quickly anyway, and my agenda is filling up nicely. It seems I found a near perfect match for what I wanted to do... I just need to remember to go steady but slowly.
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Wide-O; their program is similar to what you are planning to get involved in. It is a most worthy cause. Mostly because you yourself have been there. You know how to "talk the talk" and "walk the walk"...
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It sounds very similar indeed, and our project is about exactly that: give a voice to those who "have the T-shirt", on equal footing with the professionals who are involved, and bring them into contact with active addicts as soon as possible, to lower the threshold for them to seek or consider treatment. (but also inform their families of the possibilities, programs etc. without pushing one or the other form of treatment). The main message is: "It's possible to get sober, and to get happier again. We have been there & done it. You can do that too." It's one thing to hear that from a doctor or a psychiatrist etc. It's another thing all together when you hear it from people who once sat where you are sitting now, who know the misery, the fear, the desperation..
I am also keeping the possibility to actually get a degree/certification during all this in the back of my mind.