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**Contents**

> **2007 Grantees**
>
> Futuros Saludables 1\
> Serving Children and Adolescents in Need, Inc. (SCAN)
>
> Honoring Every Woman's Right to Safety (HERS) 2

AIDS Service Center of New York City

> Our Common Welfare (OCW) 3
>
> Women in New Recovery (WINR)
>
> Peer Support Recovery Program (PSRP) 4\
> Community Bridges

Pennsylvania Recovery Organization Achieving Community Together
(PRO-ACT) 5

Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (BCCADD)

Reach 1 Teach 1 6

> SAARA of Virginia, Inc.**\
> **
>
> Recovery Annex 7\
> Exponents, Inc.
>
> Seattle/King County Peer Recovery Services Network 8\
> Multifaith Works
>
> **2006 Grantees**

A Recovery Community Services Project to Establish a Peer-to-Peer System
9

Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, Arizona

## Free Mind 10

> Pima Prevention Partnership, Tucson, Arizona

Medication Assisted Recovery Services Project (MARS) 11

National Alliance of Methadone Advocates, Inc., Bronx, New York

> Recovery Alliance Peer Support Services 12

El Paso Alliance, Inc., El Paso, Texas

> Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. (RCA) 13\
> Atlanta, Georgia
>
> Recovery Network of New York (RNNY) 14

Center for Community Alternatives, Syracuse, New York

> Sister to Sister 15

Oklahoma Citizen Advocates for Recovery and Treatment, Oklahoma, City,
Oklahoma

> **2004 Grantees**
>
> Accessing Success 16
>
> Relief Nursery, Inc., Eugene, Oregon
>
> Circles of Recovery III 17
>
> White Bison, Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado
>
> Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) 19
>
> Hartford, Connecticut
>
> Face to Face 21
>
> Welcome Home Ministries, Oceanside, California
>
> Heartland Cares,Inc. 23
>
> Paducah, Kentucky
>
> Northern Ohio Recovery Association (NORA) 25
>
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
> Peer to Peer Project 27
>
> The Fortune Society, New York, New York
>
> PROSPER---Peers Reach Out Supporting Peers to Embrace Recovery 28
>
> Walden House, Inc., Los Angeles, California

**RCSP Project:** Futuros Saludables

> **Grantee:** Serving Children and Adolescents in Need, Inc.\
> (SCAN)

**Contact(s):** Christopher Craddock\
Principle Investigator\
(956) 724-3177 ext. 123\
<chris@scan-inc.org>

> Grizelda Carrillo\
> Program Director\
> (956) 724-3177

<grizelda@scan-inc.org>

**Web site:** [http://www.scan-inc.org](http://www.scan-inc.org/)

> Serving Children and Adolescents in Need (SCAN), a provider of
> prevention and treatment services, is implementing its peer services
> project, Futuros Saludables, in Webb County, Texas. The county abuts
> the Texas-Mexico border, and illicit drugs are easily available. Many
> residents of Webb County live in poverty, and a large population of
> minimally acculturated Mexican-Americans do not speak English.
> Compounding these risk factors, the area has only limited treatment
> services. Futuros Saluables trains culturally appropriate peer leaders
> to serve as peer mentors or coaches for adults and adolescents seeking
> recovery, conduct life and job skills and wellness trainings, and
> create community events that strengthen the connection between
> individuals seeking recovery and the larger community of recovering
> people and their families.

**RCSP Project:** Honoring Every Woman's Right to Safety (HERS)

**Grantee:** AIDS Service Center of New York City

**Contact(s):** Sharen Duke\
Executive Director/CEO\
(212) 645-0875 ext. 304

sharen@ascnyc.org\
\
Ramona Cummings

Co-director of Prevention Services

\(212\) 645-0875 ext. 342

ramona@ascnyc.org

**Web site:** http://[www.ascnyc.org](http://www.ascnyc.org/)

> The AIDS Service Center of NYC (ASC) is replicating an earlier,
> mixed-gender, RCSP peer recovery support project, but adapting and
> tailoring it specifically to economically disenfranchised African
> American and Latina women living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS who also
> have a history of alcohol and/or drug problems and are currently in or
> seeking to enter recovery. Women served by Honoring Every Woman's
> Right to Safety (H.E.R.S) include those who are homeless or marginally
> housed ex-offenders, HIV-positive individuals in recovery, and active
> alcohol and/or drug users contemplating recovery, as well as those
> engaged in treatment including methadone maintenance. Peer services
> include recovery coaching, women's support groups, life skills
> workshops, health and wellness workshops, community outreach, and the
> facilitation of pro-recovery social networks. H.E.R.S. provides
> extensive on-going peer leader training, using a curriculum adapted
> from ASC's previous RCSP project.

**RCSP Project:** Our Common Welfare (OCW)

**Grantee:** Women in New Recovery (WINR)

**Contact(s):** Patricia Henderson

Executive Director, WINR

\(480\) 464-5764

winrpah@winr.org

**Web site:** http://[www.winr.org](http://www.winr.org/)

> Our Common Welfare (OCW), a project of Women in New Recovery (WINR),\
> is expanding a previously funded RCSP peer program by developing new
> peer leaders from among the more than 45 operators and 2,100 residents
> of recovery homes in Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona.
> Historically, recovery homes have been resource-poor and unable to
> provide support services for their residents. New peer recovery
> support services in these environments are reaching underserved
> populations of women and men and building the capacity of the recovery
> housing community to meet the needs of those seeking recovery. In
> addition to providing leadership and tools, OCW and its trained peer
> leaders offer such services as strengths- mapping workshops, peer
> coaching, peer case management, ex-offender reentry assistance, and
> peer-led support groups. OCW also maintains a recovery resource center
> and sponsors a Holistic Health Fair.

**RCSP Project:** Peer Support Recovery Program (PSRP)

**Grantee:** Community Bridges

**Contact(s):** Dr. Frank Scarpati\
Chief Executive Officer\
(480) 831-7566\
fscarpati@cbridges.com

John Hogeboom\
Project Director\
(480) 831-7566\
jhogeboom@cbridges.com

> **\
> Web site:**
> [http://www.communitybridgesaz.org](http://www.communitybridgesaz.org/)
>
> Community Bridges is the primary provider of crisis care, medical
> detoxification, and outpatient services to homeless, indigent, and
> working poor residents of Maricopa County, Arizona. In its Peer
> Support Recovery Program, peer support specialists work in homeless
> and crisis centers, as well as on the street, to reach out to
> individuals---including recently released prisoners seeking
> recovery---to provide peer support in accessing services. For those in
> treatment, peer support specialists provide a variety of support
> services, including assistance in making transitions between levels of
> care. As needed, they also offer help in accessing other services,
> such as housing, employment, and health care. The peer support
> specialists, who receive 160 hours of classroom and on-the-job
> training, are supervised by a peer support manager.

**RCSP Project:** Pennsylvania Recovery Organization\
Achieving Community Together (PRO-ACT)

**Grantee:** Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug\
Dependence (BCCADD)

**Contact(s):** Beverly J. Haberle

> Executive Director\
> (215) 345-6644

haberle@bccadd.org

Heidi Gordon\
Program Manager

\(215\) 345-6644

<hgordon@bccadd.org>

**Web site:** http://[www.bccadd.org](http://www.bccadd.org/)

> PRO-ACT, a project of the Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug
> Dependence, is spearheading an effort to replicate its peer recovery
> support service model---developed in Philadelphia and Bucks
> County---in Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware Counties in southeastern
> Pennsylvania. Peer recovery support services are provided to
> individuals and families seeking any route to recovery, including
> medical assistance. PRO-ACT specifically targets those seeking
> recovery from co-existing disorders and those desiring recovery
> support related to their gender (such as women's reproductive health
> problems), experience (such as military or correctional system
> involvement), or goals (such as family reunification or continuing
> education and career planning). Peer recovery support services are
> delivered primarily by volunteers from the local recovery community.
> PRO-ACT has identified specific stakeholders and locales, including
> recovery homes and community recovery resource centers, to conduct
> early service roll-outs. Services include peer-led support groups,
> peer-delivered life skills workshops and trainings, one-on-one
> coaching and mentoring, information services, and referral to local
> resources. Health and wellness groups are available, along with
> cultural and socialization activities.

**RCSP Project:** Reach 1 Teach 1

**Grantee:** SAARA of Virginia, Inc.**\
**

**Contact(s):** Mark Blackwell\
Executive Director\
(804) 762-4445

director@saara.org

> Jean Govoni\
> Project Administrator

\(804\) 762-4445

jean@govoni.biz

**Web site:** [http://www.saara.org](http://www.saara.org/)

> The Substance Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance of Virginia
> (SAARA), a recovery community advocacy organization, is collaborating
> with the local public treatment agency and a recovery support
> foundation that provides recovery housing to open a Recovery Center in
> Chesterfield County, Virginia. The SAARA Recovery Center will target
> individuals leaving treatment or on the waiting list for treatment,
> and will also be open to those who are seeking recovery through
> avenues other than treatment. The Recovery Center will operate as a
> drop-in center and house one-on-one peer mentoring, small-group peer
> case management, support groups, and a Peer Leadership Institute to
> train and sustain peer leaders.

**RCSP Project:** Recovery Annex

**Grantee:** Exponents, Inc.

**Contact(s):** Howard Josepher\
Executive Director

\(212\) 243-3434 ext. 102

hjosepher@mac.com

Sam Rivera\
Project Director

\(212\) 243-3434 ext. 155

srivera@exponents.org

**Web site:** http://www.exponents.org

> Exponents is a community-based organization in the heart of Manhattan
> serving individuals with substance use problems and/or HIV/AIDs. In
> Exponents' RCSP project, The Recovery Annex, peer-to-peer recovery
> support strategies currently available to HIV-positive clients are
> being adapted to serve individuals in or seeking recovery from
> substance use problems who are not HIV-positive. The support service
> model centers on Mentoring Circles that use peer group dynamics and
> one-on-one peer support to discern important recovery lessons and then
> help individuals apply these lessons to the real challenges of life in
> the community. The Mentoring Circles are backed by various services,
> including a peer-staffed vocational center, to link participants to
> important community resources. Most individuals served by the Recovery
> Annex are people of color, drawn from New York City communities with
> the highest rates of drug use and co-existing disorders and
> conditions.

**RCSP Project:** Seattle/King County Peer Recovery Services Network

**Grantee:** Multifaith Works**\
**

**Contact(s):** Arthur Padilla\
Project Director\
(206) 324-1520 ext. 223\
arthur@multifaith.org

Shane Rossow\
(206) 324-1520 ext. 244

Shane@multifaith.org

**Web site:**
[http://www.seattlecounseling.org](http://www.seattlecounseling.org/)\
[http://www.multifaith.org](http://www.multifaith.org/)

> The Seattle/King County Peer Recovery Services Network is a
> collaboration among the grantee, Multifaith Works, a nondenominational
> nonprofit organization providing housing and other supportive services
> to people living with HIV/AIDS, and three other Seattle organizations:
> a counseling organization serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
> transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) communities; a gay city health
> project providing HIV and STD testing; and a program hosting multiple
> support groups composed of people living with HIV/AIDS. The Network
> operates as a peer-led clearinghouse facilitating referral and access
> to services provided by the partners and other Seattle health and
> human service agencies. It also serves as the organizational hub for
> engaging, training and retaining peer volunteers in the partnering
> organizations, and works to elevate the profile of recovery in the
> GLBTQ communities of Seattle and reduce the stigma associated with
> addiction and recovery in these communities.

**RCSP Project:** A Recovery Community Services Project to Establish a

Peer-to-Peer System

**Grantee:** Tohono O'odham Nation

**\
**

**Contact(s):** Jane LaTané\
Project Director

\(520\) 603-2477

janelatane@hotmail.com

Art Wilson

Project Manager

\(520\) 603-2477

arthur.wilson@tonation-nsn.gov

**Web site:** http://www.itcaonline.com/tribes-tohono

> The Tohono O'odham Nation, a federally recognized Tribal Organization
> with one of the highest rates of substance abuse among all populations
> in the U.S., will implement a comprehensive peer-to-peer program to
> support individuals in recovery with a full range of
> culturally-appropriate recovery support services in the 11 districts
> that comprise the Nation. The project will engage at least four
> individuals from each of the 11 districts of the Nation to serve as
> peer mentors and promote recovery. Each peer mentor will provide
> peer-to-peer support services to at least three individuals each year,
> for a total of 528 individuals served over the 4-year project. Trained
> peer mentors also will facilitate at least one recovery support
> service each year to enable the Nation to reestablish culturally
> appropriate individual and community supports for recovery to
> individuals and their family members who seek help.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Free Mind
>
> **Grantee:** Pima Prevention Partnership
>
> Tucson, Arizona
>
> **Contact(s):** Harry Kressler
>
> Executive Director
>
> \(520\) 624-5800 ext. 1101
>
> <hkressler@thepartnership.us>
>
> Dennis Noonan
>
> Program Director
>
> \(520\) 624-5806 ext. 108
>
> <dnoonan@thepartnership.us>   
>
> **Web site:** http://www.thepartnership.us
>
> Pima Prevention Partnership (PPP), a nonprofit, youth and family
> services agency based in Tucson, Arizona, is working in collaboration
> with the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Arizona,
> the Pima County Juvenile Court, and COMPASS Health Care's Clean and
> Sober Theater, with pro bono assistance from the Journal Broadcasting
> Group, to create and develop a peer-based recovery community model for
> youth ages 14-18 that can be replicated nationwide.
>
> PPP will recruit and train a 10-member core group of peer leaders in
> recovery who will develop and implement services. The program will
> target marginalized and/or adjudicated youths from multi-ethnic
> communities (approximately 60% Hispanic, 17% White, non-Hispanic, 10%
> Native American, 10% African American, 3% Asian/Pacific Islanders).
> Peer recovery support services will be offered at the Pima Prevention
> Partnership Learning Center, a newly remodeled 17,500 square foot site
> that will also house a Cyber Café for the youth recovery community.
> The Learning Center will offer peer-led emotional, informational,
> instrumental, and affiliational support services five afternoons and
> evenings per week plus Saturdays.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Medication Assisted Recovery Services Project\
> (MARS)
>
> **Grantee:** National Alliance of Methadone Advocates, Inc. (NAMA)
>
> Bronx, New York
>
> **Contact(s):** Walter Ginter
>
> Project Director, MARS
>
> \(718\) 993-3397 ext. 3216
>
> namavp@yahoo.com
>
> Joycelyn Sue Woods
>
> President, NAMA
>
> \(212\) 595-6262
>
> <nama.president@verizon.net>
>
> **Web site:** http://www.methadone.org
>
> The peer facilitated Medication Assisted Recovery Services (MARS)
> project is a collaboration between the National Alliance of Methadone
> Advocates (NAMA) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM),
> Division of Substance Abuse (DoSA). MARS is located in the Bronx, New
> York and will provide peer recovery support services to patients at
> the medical college's Methadone Maintenance Treatment program. The
> organized provision of peer recovery support services is completely
> new within medication assisted treatment (MAT), as is the
> collaboration of a peer-based recovery community organization (NAMA)
> with a major treatment provider (AECOM).
>
> The overall goal of MARS is to design, implement, and evaluate
> selected peer-delivered recovery support services that will complement
> the existing treatment program. The MARS project will provide persons
> whose recovery is assisted by medication with the tools they need to
> be more effective facilitators of their *own* recovery.
>
> MARS services will include: training in medication-assisted recovery,
> a mix of culturally appropriate support groups, drug and alcohol free
> social activities celebrating recovery, and peer leader training and
> mentoring. A peer council will help to direct the development of the
> project.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Recovery Alliance Peer Support Services
>
> **Grantee:** El Paso Alliance, Inc.
>
> El Paso, Texas
>
> **Contact(s):** Ben Bass
>
> Executive Director
>
> \(915\) 594-7000 ext. 11
>
> <bbass@recoveryalliance.net>
>
> **Web site:** http://
> [www.recoveryalliance.net](http://www.recoveryalliance.net/)
>
> The Recovery Alliance is a peer-led recovery community organization
> that provides wrap-around services for persons in recovery and their
> family and friends. The Alliance works with existing social, health,
> and criminal justice systems to put a positive face and voice on
> recovery and acts as a bridge between the treatment provider, drug
> courts or probation officers, and other service providers in the local
> community to provide long-term peer recovery support services.
>
> The organization strives to ensure diversity in volunteers, staff,
> membership, activities, and services, and offers culturally competent
> peer recovery support services to all demographic and cultural
> segments of the El Paso community (approximately 78% Hispanic, 17.2%
> Anglo, and 4% African American), and serves both men (49.9%) and women
> (50.1%). The Alliance will deliver peer support services for people
> seeking recovery from alcoholism or addiction including recovery
> coaching, Recovery 101, spiritual support, housing and job supports,
> and coordination of social services.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. (RCA)
>
> **Grantee:** Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. (RCA)
>
> Atlanta, Georgia
>
> **Contact(s):** David L. Whiters
>
> Executive Director
>
> \(404\) 370-0123
>
> <david@recoveryconsultants.org>
>
> Cassandra Collins
>
> Associate Director
>
> \(404\) 370-0123
>
> <cassandra@recoveryconsultants.org>
>
> **Web site:**
> http://[www.recoveryconsultants.org](http://www.recoveryconsultants.org/)
>
> Recovery Consultants of Altanta, Inc. (RCA) is a faith-based recovery
> community organization designed to provide peer recovery support
> services to members of Atlanta's inner-city addiction recovery
> community. RCA also facilitates a faith-based coalition that includes
> six predominately African American churches and a historically black
> college.
>
> Through its "Linkage to Care" outreach program, individuals in
> recovery canvas inner-city Atlanta communities and engage substance
> users who are in the precontemplation, contemplation, or preparation
> stages of change in dialogue aimed at linking them with publicly
> funded detoxification programs. Individuals who complete a 7-day
> detoxification program or who are already in early recovery are linked
> with other RCA and publicly-funded services that include: access to
> the recovery center, more than 40 weekly 12-Step, faith-based, health
> specific (HIV and HCV), gender-specific, and family-specific support
> groups; transitional housing; addictive disorder treatment programs;
> and educational programs that help to improve parenting skills. RCA
> also provides incentives for sustained recovery through its workforce
> development and business development initiatives.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Recovery Network of New York (RNNY)
>
> **Grantee:** Center for Community Alternatives
>
> Syracuse, New York
>
> **Contact(s):** Marsha Weissman
>
> Executive Director
>
> \(315\) 422-5638 ext. 218
>
> <mweissman@communityalternatives.org>
>
> Jackson Davis
>
> Project Director

\(315\) 422-5638 ext. 222

<jdavis@communityalternatives.org>

> **Web site:**
> [http://www.communityalternatives.org](http://www.communityalternatives.org/)
>
> The Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) is the facilitating
> organization for the Recovery Network of New York (RNNY), a peer-led
> recovery community that will serve recovering people leaving the
> criminal justice system in the Rochester and Albany area. Participants
> will include people in recovery from the African American and Latino
> communities as well as growing numbers of women. Services offered by
> the RNNY will also take into account gender, age, linguistic, and
> sexual orientation.
>
> Peer leaders in Rochester and Albany, in concert with the existing
> program in Syracuse, a former SAMHSA/CSAT funded initiative, will
> develop peer recovery support services in these cities to form a broad
> network that will serve Upstate New York. The aim of these
> community-based programs is to address the long-term social and
> practical needs of people leaving the criminal justice
> system―parolees, drug court participants, and participants in
> alternative-to-incarceration programs ―who intend to take up healthy
> and responsible lives and to address the double stigma associated with
> addiction and possession of a criminal record. This is a pioneering
> project for Upstate New York.
>
> CCA will serve to support the work of peer leaders at each site as
> they begin to design, implement, and manage programs; administer GPRA;
> and conduct program evaluation. The Rochester and Albany communities
> are currently in the final phases of a strengths and needs assessment,
> but examples of peer delivered services are likely to include: civic
> restoration, employment services, social support services, leadership
> training, peer-delivered HIV prevention education, mentoring, and
> housing assistance. Leadership training and community outreach will be
> a major emphasis in year one to ensure that a sound foundation is
> built in establishing recovery community support services outside the
> Syracuse area in the subsequent grant years.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Sister to Sister
>
> **Grantee:** Oklahoma Citizen Advocates for Recovery\
> and Treatment Association (OCARTA)
>
> Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
>
> **Contact(s):** Donna Woods-Bauer
>
> Executive Director
>
> \(405\) 848-7555
>
> <donna@ocarta.org>
>
> **Web site:** http://www.ocarta.org
>
> In collaboration with over a dozen community organizations, substance
> use and prevention programs, and law enforcement agencies, the
> Oklahoma Citizen Advocates for Recovery and Treatment Association
> (OCARTA), through Sister to Sister, will implement the first peer
> recovery support services in Oklahoma County for women in all stages
> of recovery and their children.
>
> The goals of Sister to Sister are to help women in recovery develop
> self-sufficiency and improve family functioning. Working in
> conjunction with a trained Peer Leader, each peer member will develop
> an individualized Peer Recovery Plan for entrance to the program.
> Services will be delivered through *The Recovery Zone,* a
> clubhouse-type environment where women in recovery can socialize and
> access services in a child-friendly setting. The project will provide
> these women with a number of emotional, informational, affiliational,
> and instrumental supports that include: (1) one-on-one peer mentoring
> in support of family unification, (2) life and jobs skills training,
> (3) parenting education, (4) childcare, (5) transportation assistance,
> and (6) family-oriented recreational and social activities and other
> sober activities.

**2004 Grantees**

> **RCSP Project:** Accessing Success
>
> **Grantee:** Relief Nursery, Inc.
>
> Eugene, Oregon
>
> **Contacts: Sharri Da Silva**
>
> Project Director
>
> \(541\) 485-0007
>
> <sharrids@reliefnursery.org>
>
> Ray Brown\
> Project Supervisor
>
> \(541\) 485-0007 ext. 205
>
> <raybr@reliefnursery.org>
>
> **Web site:** http://www.reliefnursery.org
>
> The mission of Relief Nursery is to prevent child abuse and neglect by
> providing early family interventions focused on building resilient
> children, strengthening parents, and preserving families. Accessing
> Success addresses the recovery issues of parents in the criminal
> justice system with children under 6 who may be at risk of abuse or
> neglect. The peer services are available at Relief Nursery's Eugene
> headquarters and in Salem and Cottage Grove, Oregon.
>
> **Peer Support Interventionists**
>
> Accessing Success's peer support interventionists (PSIs) provide peer
> counseling in home visits or phone calls and conduct crisis
> intervention when necessary. They also lead recovery support groups
> and classes in anger management, parent education, and social skills.
>
> The PSIs accompany peers to court and child welfare agencies,
> providing support and advocating on their behalf. They provide support
> to other family members as well.
>
> **Orientation, Training, and Supervision**
>
> Accessing Success has developed a strong supervisory plan and an
> orientation and training program for peers interested in becoming
> PSIs. Working with a supervisor, each PSI creates a professional
> development plan that identifies goals and skills to be acquired. An
> experienced PSI "shadows" a new PSI during home visits, court
> hearings, family meetings, 12-step meetings, and other activities.
> Mentoring is available from Relief Nursery staff.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Circles of Recovery III
>
> **Grantee:** White Bison, Inc.
>
> Colorado Springs, Colorado
>
> **Contacts:** Don L. Coyhis
>
> Project Director
>
> \(719\) 548-1000
>
> don@whitebison.org
>
> <info@whitebison.org>
>
> Amanda Manbeck\
> Project Manager
>
> \(719\) 548-1000
>
> amanda@whitebison.org
>
> **Web site:** http://www.whitebison.org
>
> White Bison is an American Indian nonprofit organization with the goal
> of bringing 100 Indian communities into healing by 2010. Based in
> Colorado Springs, Colorado, it operates throughout Indian Country,
> spreading its philosophy of "wellbriety", which means being both sober
> and well. Its RCSP project, Circles of Recovery III, aims to develop
> an infrastructure of recovery support services in 15 local communities
> to help prevent relapse, promote holistic health, and reframe
> community norms about recovery.
>
> **Recovery Services Coaches/Firestarters**
>
> Through leadership development and training, Circles of Recovery III
> develops Firestarters, also known as recovery services coaches men and
> women in recovery with the facilitative and leadership skills to
> coordinate and deliver a range of culturally appropriate social
> supports for recovery in their home communities.
>
> **Wellness Coalitions**
>
> Circles of Recovery III is helping local Native American communities
> reframe traditional clan knowledge into strategies for building
> productive coalitions for recovery and holistic health in individuals,
> families, and communities.
>
> **Seven Trainings**
>
> White Bison's Seven Trainings are having an impact and being used to
> develop additional programs. The seven trainings are based on the
> Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps, each specially targeted to men, women,
> adult children of alcoholics, Native American children of alcoholics,
> families, daughters, or sons. Firestarters are trained to facilitate
> these curricula.
>
> **Web site**
>
> The White Bison website, which is used to communicate instantly with
> Firestarters across the country, is getting one million hits a month,
> and hits seem to be increasing by 100,000 per week. Sharing "how we
> did it" information in discussion groups hosted on the website have
> increased the quality of peer learning and supervision among the
> Firestarters.
>
> **Warrior Down**
>
> Based on the cultural tradition of never leaving a warrior on the
> battlefield, Circles of Recovery III is using the Firestarters to help
> people coming out of treatment or prison. In Idaho, a Firestarter is
> considered as an Elder and paired with individuals newly released from
> prison or treatment to help them with issues and provide support.
> Assistance can take the form, for example, of helping the person
> obtain a driver's license or find a job. In 6 months since the program
> started, not one of the 36 people in the program has relapsed or been
> returned to an institution. This peer-to-peer program will be repeated
> at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
>
> **RCSP Project**
>
> **& Grantee:** Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
>
> Hartford, Connecticut
>
> **Contacts:** Phillip Valentine\
> Executive Director
>
> \(860\) 244-2227
>
> phillip@ccar.us
>
> Cheryle Pacapelli\
> Director of Operations
>
> \(860\) 244-2227
>
> cheryle@ccar.us
>
> **Web site:** http://www.ccar.us
>
> CCAR is a recovery community membership organization that promotes
> recovery through advocacy, education, and service. Its RCSP project
> uses a peer-based social support model to build recovery capital
> throughout Connecticut. CCAR's definition of recovery capital is
> "individual, relational, and community resources that support
> sustained recovery."
>
> **Recovery Community Centers**
>
> Building on the success of its center in Windham, Connecticut, CCAR
> opened its second recovery community center in late 2005 in New
> London, Connecticut. Both recovery centers host an array of peer
> recovery support services, including trainings, workshops, vocational
> services, informal recovery coaching, and clean and sober social
> events.
>
> The recovery community centers "anchor" recovery in a visible way in
> the heart of the communities they serve. CCAR plans to have a total of
> nine recovery centers by the end of the grant.
>
> **All-Recovery Groups**
>
> All-Recovery groups meet regularly meeting at both centers. These are
> recovery support groups that welcome members from any "form" of
> recovery12-step, Christian, other faith-based, methadone maintenance,
> medication assisted, dual diagnosis, individual, and any other type.
> All-Recovery meetings discuss topics related to recovery and close
> with affirmations.
>
> **Telephone Recovery Support**
>
> CCAR has developed a telephone recovery support program for people
> completing treatment for a substance use disorder. Trained peers call
> people leaving treatment programs once a week for 12 weeks to check on
> their status and progress and to offer support where needed. CCAR has
> developed a case rate for this phone service and expects to provide it
> as an Access to Recovery (ATR)-funded service in Connecticut.
>
> **Volunteer Management System**
>
> CCAR has developed a Volunteer Management System which includes job
> descriptions for 19 different volunteer positions. In 2005, volunteers
> recorded more than 3,000 hours of service time.
>
> **Recovery Housing Project**
>
> The Recovery Housing Project is a three-pronged effort consisting of a
> recovery housing data base, a Recovery Housing Coalition, and
> technical assistance on how to open a recovery home. The searchable
> data base of recovery housing in Connecticut contains information on
> 107 houses with a combined capacity of more than 1,100 beds. The
> project gets 50-60 calls a week for information from the data base;
> the Department of Corrections uses it to get people out of
> correctional halfway housing and into recovery housing that meets the
> standards set by the Recovery Housing Coalition.
>
> CCAR's technical assistance, provided four times a year in training
> sessions, covers standards established by the Coalition, zoning laws,
> funding, and other key issues. About 70 people have attended each
> training, and seven new houses have been opened by attendees, adding
> 70 new beds.
>
> **Family Support and Education Groups**
>
> Recognizing the importance of engaging the family in the recovery
> process, CCAR has instituted family support groups and a family/
> community education series.
>
> **Recovery Walks!**
>
> CCAR's annual walk in support of recovery has become a community
> tradition. In 2005, an honor guard of 68 men and women with at least
> 10 years of recovery led the march, inspiring the 2,000 other marchers
> and the many others who came out to cheer for Recovery Walks!
>
> **Grantee:** Welcome Home Ministries
>
> Oceanside, California
>
> **Contacts:** Carmen Warner-Robbins\
> Executive Director
>
> \(760\) 439-1136
>
> <jhnhrbbns@sbcglobal.net>
>
> **Web site:** http://www.welcomehomeministries.org
>
> A faith-based organization, Welcome Home helps women move from the
> correctional systems of San Diego County into productive lives in the
> community. Through Face to Face, women who have made that transition
> successfully offer peer support to others coming out, helping them
> break the cycle of addiction and incarceration, choose options for
> recovery, and find hope for the future. Welcome Home has two offices
> strategically located close to detention facilities.
>
> **Peer Mentors**
>
> Peer mentors in Face to Face provide supportive services to women in
> jail and, following release, in treatment facilities or other types of
> rehabilitation programs. The companionship of "women who have been
> there before" is the common thread in all contacts with the women
> served, whether in outreach visits in jail, letters to incarcerated
> women, or one-on-one contacts during and after treatment.
>
> **Instrumental Supports**
>
> In addition to providing emotional and/or spiritual support, peer
> leaders accompany the former inmates to court or to dental, eye, or
> medical appointments. Instrumental support is provided in the form of
> emergency food supplies or clothing, bus passes, hygiene items, and
> transportation.
>
> **Recovery Support Group**
>
> Face to Face conducts a weekly recovery support group for women. Women
> in the group explore relationships with family, friends, significant
> others, children, and other women in the program.
>
> **Employment and Housing Support**
>
> Peers receiving services from the Face to Face Program are helped to
> find employment and/or enrolled in adult education activities. Face to
> Face peer mentors also help women find safe housing in the community.
>
> **Dental and Vision Ministry**
>
> Welcome Home has organized a network of dentists supporting recovery
> who provide free or deeply discounted dental work for women enrolled
> in Face to Face. The local Lions Club also offers vision exams and
> eyeglasses at a fraction of the normal cost.
>
> **Pilot Program with Corrections Department**
>
> Previously, Welcome Home Ministries has only been able to work with
> women in local jails. In the fall of 2005, negotiations were completed
> with the California Department of Corrections for Face to Face to
> begin working with women in State institutions at the California
> Institution for Women (CIW) and Puerta La Cruz Conservation Camp. In
> addition, Face to Face is developing relationships with the CIW
> Chaplains' Department and the Parole Planning Unit.
>
> **Leadership Development**
>
> Face to Face is developing formal peer-to-peer training and protocols
> to educate peer leaders in best practices for one-on-one peer
> counseling, effective goal setting, and other important peer support
> skills. Welcome Home also is writing several articles on peer services
> for publication in professional journals.
>
> **RCSP Project\
> & Grantee:** Heartland Cares, Inc.
>
> Paducah, Kentucky
>
> **Contacts:** Krista Wood\
> Executive Director
>
> \(270\) 444-8183 ext. 103
>
> <kwood@hcares.org>
>
> James Michael Elliott
>
> Project Supervisor\
> (270) 444-8183
>
> melliott@hcares.org
>
> Molly Stephens\
> Project Coordinator
>
> \(270\) 331-7788
>
> mstephens[\@hcares.org](mailto:gdycus@hcares.org)
>
> **Web site:** http://www.hcares.org
>
> The purposes of this peer project are to promote effective recovery
> from substance use disorders and prevent relapse among HIV-positive
> persons throughout 27 counties of western Kentucky and 17 counties of
> southern Illinois. The facilitating organization provides primary care
> and outreach, prevention, and social support services for persons
> living with HIV infection.
>
> **Buddy System Peer Mentoring**
>
> Peers needing services are paired with peer mentors in a "buddy
> system." Because service recipients are dispersed sparsely throughout
> a 250-square-mile rural area and many do not have cars, much of the
> mentoring takes place in telephone conversations. The project gives
> peers prepaid cell phones programmed for up to 300 minutes a month,
> enabling them to be in frequent contact with the peer leader who is
> mentoring them.
>
> **Life Skills Support Groups**
>
> Peer leaders are paired with staff to lead support groups aimed at
> helping peers develop life skills in areas such as relationships,
> anger management, and healthy living. Peers lead the sessions, but a
> staff member also is available to handle the complex emotional and
> medical issues that may come up in people dealing with both HIV
> infection and substance use disorder.
>
> **Peer Outreach**
>
> Peer leaders perform critical, life-saving tasks by engaging and
> supporting new peer service recipients in various locations in the
> Kentucky-Illinois service area. Peer leaders are supported with travel
> vouchers, training, and the availability of project staff.
>
> **Education-Socialization Events**
>
> Because of what project leaders term "extreme isolation" and a
> "desperate need" for socialization activities among recovering people
> in rural western Kentucky and southern Illinois, an important peer
> service offered by Heartland CARES combines education and
> socialization opportunities. Classes are led by peers on topics
> related to wellness, and are followed by outdoor social activities
> such as picnics in the summer and indoor activities such as games
> during the winter. Peer supportive educational and social activities
> have recently been increased and extended to three new locations:
> Marion, Illinois and Hopkinsville and Paducah, Kentucky.
>
> **RCSP Project**
>
> **& Grantee:** Northern Ohio Recovery Association (NORA)\
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
> **Contacts:** Anita Bertrand
>
> Executive Director
>
> \(216\) 391-6672
>
> abertrand@norainc.org
>
> Judy Wright
>
> Program Manager
>
> \(216\) 391-6672
>
> jwright@norainc.org
>
> **Web site:** http://www.norainc.org
>
> NORA is engaging the recovery community in developing and providing
> culturally competent peer recovery support services in three counties
> in northern Ohio. The peer support services are designed to prevent
> relapse, reengage recovering persons in the community, and promote
> high-level wellness.
>
> **Resource Centers**
>
> NORA provides peer services and recovery support groups at four sites.
> Two county resource centers one in Cleveland (Cuyahoga County) and the
> other one in Elyria (Lorain County) were opened in the first year of
> the grant, and a third is planned for Summit County. These centers
> provide space for support groups and serve as a hub for other peer
> support activities, including peer mentoring and connecting people in
> early recovery to resources.
>
> NORA also operates from its office in East Cleveland, maintains an
> office at the Salvation Army in Elyria, and provides mentor-led
> support groups at a nearby recovery house for men that opened in
> Elyria early this year. Recovery support group meetings are held at
> all sites.
>
> **Peer Mentors and Support/Education Groups**
>
> Peer mentors provide one-on-one support for people in early recovery
> (including adolescents in treatment) and lead recovery support and
> education groups, including a number of nontraditional groups. Some of
> the groups offered are Pattern Changing for Abused Women, focusing on
> the recovery needs of abused women; Transitions, a re-entry group; an
> anger management group for men; and life skills and job readiness
> groups.
>
> **Linkages with Stakeholders**
>
> NORA has developed productive linkages with many organizations,
> including Iron Bar Ministries, Phase I Recovery House, Salvation Army,
> and the Lorain County Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
> Outreach Project. These stakeholders refer people in need of social
> support to NORA and help NORA identify potential mentors. In addition,
> some provide space for NORA mentors\
> to work.
>
> **Special Events**
>
> In the last year, NORA has held a number of trainings, including two
> peer mentor trainings. In addition, it convened a weekend conference
> on "Building Bridges" for the recovery, faith, and treatment
> communities which drew 250 participants and an open house attended by
> the new mayor of Cleveland.
>
> **RCSP Project:** Peer to Peer Project
>
> **Grantee:** The Fortune Society
>
> New York, New York
>
> **Contacts:** Stanley Richards\
> Deputy Executive Director
>
> \(212\) 691-7554
>
> srichards@fortunesociety.org
>
> Ana Matos\
> Senior Director of Treatment Services
>
> \(212\) 206-7070
>
> amatos@fortunesociety.org
>
> **Web site:** http:// www.fortunesociety.org
>
> Staffed primarily by former prisoners, The Fortune Society is a
> not-for-profit community-based organization offering a broad range of
> services to help ex-prisoners and at-risk youth break the cycle of
> crime and incarceration. Peer to Peer develops peer leaders who model
> successful recovery and provide support for peers at early stages of
> the recovery process who are reentering the community from a
> correctional facility.
>
> **Peer Support**
>
> Peer leaders provide ongoing support consisting of companionship,
> listening to emotional problems, giving advice on social networking
> and lifestyle changes, and providing information in one-on-one and
> group formats.
>
> **Instrumental Support**
>
> Help in completing applications for employment and/or housing is
> available from the peer leaders. Other peer services include escorting
> clients when they leave the building for therapy or doctors'
> appointments, helping them apply for Medicaid or public assistance,
> providing assistance with reading documents received in the mail,
> navigating public transportation, and alleviating stress.
>
> **Curriculum Development**
>
> A peer leader training curriculum has been completed. It consists of
> eight modules: orientation and overview; social skills and conflict
> resolution; conflict resolution skills and active listening; training;
> cognitive distortions; decision making and problem solving I and II;
> and losses in addiction.
>
> **Leadership Development**
>
> Two groups of peers have completed the 12-week training for peer
> leaders and The Fortune Society's human resources orientation. In
> addition, they received group facilitation training from Fortune's
> clinical supervisor, and were briefed on processes for establishing
> and maintaining boundaries when working with peers.
>
> **RCSP Project:** PROSPER--Peers Reach Out Supporting
>
> Peers to Embrace Recovery
>
> **Grantee:** Walden House, Inc.
>
> San Francisco, California
>
> **Contact:** Demetrius Andreas
>
> Program Director
>
> \(213\) 741-3731
>
> dandreas@waldenhouse.org
>
> Salvador Wilson\
> Program Manager
>
> \(213\) 741-3709
>
> swilson@waldenhouse.org
>
> **Web site:** http://www.waldenhouse.org
>
> Walden House is a nonprofit substance use disorder treatment agency
> providing services throughout California. Under the Walden umbrella,
> PROSPER is building a strength-based peer-to-peer recovery community
> in Los Angeles among men and women reentering the community from
> prison, as well as their families.
>
> **Drop-in Center**
>
> Located in downtown Los Angeles, the PROSPER drop-in center provides
> peer-to-peer reentry and social support opportunities for ex-offenders
> and their families. Ex-offenders are encouraged to come directly to
> the drop-in center following release from prison. Peer leaders work
> with each incoming peer to develop an individualized recovery and
> reentry plan. The center is open until 9:00 p.m. so that peers can
> drop by after work.
>
> **Resource Connection**
>
> The center also houses a Resource Center designed to offer its members
> access to vocational and housing placements and other ancillary
> services vital to persons in recovery who are reentering the
> community.
>
> **Instrumental Supports for Employment**
>
> PROSPER offers its members access to fax machines, e-mail, and a
> telephone to receive calls from prospective employers, assistance with
> resume development, and clothing vouchers. In addition, it connects
> its members with agencies throughout Los Angeles that offer jobs to
> ex-offenders.
>
> **Workshops, Support Groups and Wellness Activities**
>
> The PROSPER center offers a number of resources including educational
> seminars on relapse prevention, money management, career planning, and
> creative art classes. Many, although not all, of the classes are
> peer-led. The center also hosts an active peer-led support group
> called "Be Real With Self" which promotes socialization and provides
> mutual support and a women's support group. PROSPER sponsors a
> softball team and has a weekly yoga class.
>
> **Family Socialization Events**
>
> Every Friday night is "Kick-It-Night" at the PROSPER drop-in center.
> Families come together to watch videos, eat popcorn, and play board
> games. These weekly gatherings are highly valued by PROSPER peers and
> provide a good opportunity for building social skills, strengthening
> families, and creating a sense of shared community.
>
> **Peer Leader Steering Committee**
>
> A Peer Leader Steering Committee guides the development and
> implementation of all services.