Celebrate Recovery

were familiar faces though. As soon as I got settled in I immediately familiarized the smell of coffee with my A.A. meetings. Do addicts in recovery swap out their drug of choice with coffee? This seems to be a pretty common refreshment offered in this type of setting, even during evening meetings. Either way I was grateful that it kept my fidgeting at bay while people started to get settled in. I began recognizing members from church while others I didn’t, this was after all open to the…

Celebrate Recovery started in 2006, in 2013 I saw a notice that they needed help watching children and I felt called to help. I also wanted some babysitting experience. I felt it was important because the notice was up for several months and they really needed assistance, so I began volunteering. Some nights, Celebrate Recovery requires a lot of effort. Helping kids stop crying takes a lot of patience. For some children it is their first time be separated from their mom and they throw a…

cancel it. This really hurts my heart because I know how much it means to my students because I work with them every day. We have been building on this goal for exactly 91 days now and the students are so excited to finally get to meet Zero the Hero that they can barely contain themselves. Now to me, this is teaching. They are learning how to be lifelong learners and to love learning. I have had the amazing pleasure of receiving visits from past students moving on to higher education,…

Addiction can be defined as dependency on something such as alcohol and drugs. Drugs and alcohol are harmful because they affect people’s behavior resulting in antisocial habits, lowering self- esteem and ruining one’s motivation towards achieving life goals. People suffering from alcohol and drug addiction can have an appropriate response if only they go through the diagnosis and the recovery process. However, if the person’s engagement in recovery activities is ignored, addiction will be…

The societal issue that I have selected is that of community inclusion for those people suffering with mental health issue and their ability to successfully integrate into the community, after years of institutional living. From this writer perspective there are several elements that will determine its success; the physical integration, the psychological integration and the social integration. According to Homan (2011) a community encompasses a group of people with a common connection that…

lengthy recovery process are why concussions seem to be transforming into a major discussion topic in most major sports. The constant physical pain, as well as the lack of mental and emotional stability result in the victim of a concussion to suffer for extended amounts of time. The recovery process, as well as outside influences make the long…

Can drug addiction be treated successfully? Yes. Can it be cured? Not all the time but it can be successfully managed. There are numerous methods of substance abuse treatment and one of the most successful is the Recovery Model. According to the American Psychological association (2012), the mental health Recovery Model is self-directed, Individualized, person-centered, patient empowerment, holistic, nonlinear, strength-based, involves peer support, patient is responsible for the journey to…

Unemployment can be faced by different kinds of people but not all handle it the same. Indianapolis, Indiana is known as the city with most jobs equally for both lower, medium, and higher class. Different problems arise with unemployment with countless solutions attached to each specific issue, but there is only one good reasonable solution that will be beneficial for the problem. One company that is facing such problem is car parts and accessories manufacturers in Mooresville, Indiana called…

Consumer’s strategy for recovery As Patricia Deegan stated in her article, The Importance of Personal Medicine, recovery is not the process of passively swallowing pills. Rather, she states that recovery is composed of a myriad of things individuals do to feel better. I found this statement to be true when talking to Erin, our consumer educator. Erin is a 35 year old female who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Erin reported that she began having auditory, visual, and olfactory…

monitored through developed reporting lines between the global response and the regional team. Controls: The countermeasures promoted by Nissan towards this cause are based on 3 basic principles. 1. Employees’ health and lives priority 2. Spread of infection prevention 3. Business continuity in operations Nissan stipulates certain actions that need to be taken by employees, companies and sections in the ‘Guidelines for employees’ action’ and have kept employees always informed. 3.…