Jeremy Byard is a peer support specialist in long-term recovery. As Executive Director of the Recovery Community Connection, he is involved with the HEALing Communities Study. In this video, Jeremy talks about community recovery organizations and connecting people to resources.
Video length: 1:32
Transcript
Jeremy speaking:
So, our organization is designed to help people increase their recovery capital so everybody that works here is a certified Peer Support Specialist with lived experience including myself.
So, we’re founded, organized, led and directed by people in recovery who’ve been there.
We don’t focus on a certain kind of treatment or a certain kind of pathway.
So, we’re obviously open to all pathways but what we try to do is help meet your needs.
That’s kind of our whole goal is to be that community connection to where we’re a hub of resources and we connect people to where they need to go.
And, so we have a computer lab, a meditation room, a podcast room where people can tell their stories on a podcast and we can break the stigma through story.
We think that everything, every aspect of life is recovery.
So, whether that’s yoga, whether that’s helping you get food, whether that’s helping you build a resume, whether that’s just giving you a place to sit on the couch when it’s cold and rainy outside and get a warm cup of coffee and have a conversation with somebody.
We’re really helping people just meeting them where they’re at.