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People’s Medicine Project aids recovery through alternative medicine
By TOM RELIHAN Recorder Staff Monday, February 22, 2016 (Published in print: Tuesday, February 23, 2016) GREENFIELD — Recovering from an addiction to alcohol or drugs is by no means a comfortable process. Just ask Kaitlyn John, a staff member at the RECOVER Project on...
The RECOVER Project Welcomes Michael Lewis as New Director
Sunday, January 24, 2016 (Published in print: Monday, January 25, 2016) Mr. Michael Lewis is no stranger to the RECOVER Project. Born and raised in Western Mass, Michael’s early adult life took him across the country, serving as a Marine, owning a business and various...
RECOVER Project Director steps down
By CHRIS CURTIS Recorder Staff Thursday, January 7, 2016 (Published in print: Friday, January 8, 2016) GREENFIELD — Looking back on seven years with the Greenfield peer-to-peer addiction recovery community and 33 years in recovery, Linda Sarage sees changes in...
RECOVER Project Holds Toy Drive
GIVING BACK IN GREENFIELD! By CHRIS CURTIS Recorder Staff Monday, December 7, 2015 (Published in print: Tuesday, December 8, 2015) GREENFIELD — Toys gathering dust could bring a smile to someone again, and a local group hopes they will. The local addiction recovery...
Locals add voices to D.C. rally of thousands for recovery
By CHRIS CURTIS Recorder Staff Sunday, October 4, 2015 (Published in print: Monday, October 5, 2015) “The crowd, it’s just this enthusiastic happy crowd that’s just done with being silent, they’re done with being silent about addiction ... oh, the surgeon general’s on...
The Consortium celebrates 40 years!
See this great video on Mass Appeal.
Recovery Learning Communities fear proposed budgets cuts could close mental health resource centers
Advocates for adult mental health resource centers, funded by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health through an umbrella program, are asking supporters to contact legislators to prevent the program's budget from being slashed in half in Gov. Charlie Baker's...
Recovery Learning Communities head to State House to protest proposed budget cut
Supporters of the Recovery Learning Community are in Boston today to rally and advocate at the State House against a proposed 50 percent cut to the community's $3.4 million budget. It has been funded since 2007, through the Department of Mental Health, and the...
Advocates for Western Mass. mental health program protest proposed budget cuts
BOSTON - The head of a network of peer-supported mental health centers in Western Massachusetts is warning that some of the centers are at risk of closing due to a budget cut proposed by Gov. Charlie Baker. "If we got cut by 50 percent, we'd have to close centers,"...
Supporting local mothers with substance abuse issues
Here is a great article from the Recorder by writer Kathleen McKiernan about the work we do at The Recover Project. GREENFIELD — In the first half of 2014, some 7 percent of patients at The Birthplace at Baystate Franklin Medical Center were affected by substance...