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Fall 2011 Newsletter
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Greetings to friends, family, alumni and recovery professionals,
There have been some exciting changes going on here at Webster Place and we would like to share them with you!
For alumni specifically, I would like to offer to have an informal "meet the director and staff dinner" on Wednesday, November 16th at 5:15pm. Come back to your place, reconnect with staff and meet some of the new ones. It is an opportunity to hear about the changes we have made as a staff to accommodate all of the new residents. I am very open to any questions or feedback you may have for me. You will get a chance to ask any questions you may have, offer any advice and find out from us in person, how things are going here and what we have planned for the near future. You will always be part of this place of hope and healing and we will always listen to you, especially when it comes to offering your advice on what we can do better for you as well as the next resident coming through the doors for help.
For industry professionals, give Doug a call to schedule a time to come for a tour of the facility and to have lunch with staff and residents alike. No better way to evaluate us as a referral resource for you.
Friends and family, your ongoing support is always appreciated and we thank you for all you do to support your loved ones as well as this place of healing.
Cheryl,
Executive Director,
Webster Place Recovery Center
603 934 2020
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Webster Place News and Updates
Webster Place Merges with Easter Seals
It's been 4 years since our small board of entrepreneurial volunteers came together, incorporated, discussed, designed and created a new model dedicated to and focused on helping folks begin a journey of long term recovery from the disease of addiction.
With the help of dedicated staff and additional community volunteers, and some seed working capital loans, some initial speed bumps & corrective actions (all of which were crucial to success) we grew into a non profit which has now served over 500 residents. After the first year, we also proved we could become totally self sustaining (positive cash flow with no grants or tax payer money, nor any major donor gifts) while still providing over 20% of services as scholarships. The non-profit kicked off in a historical building (on the former Daniel Webster homestead and farm) owned and renovated by land lord and envisioner Al Ray (Common Man restaurateur.) The reasonable rent helped us keep the private pay monthly fee one of the lowest in the field. We enabled peer based recovery support in a country setting of serenity and hope. The accommodations were designed for dignity and respect as semi private, with individual bath facilities and first class culinary. In addition, program enhancements showed residents how to live in recovery while still having fun and abundant, productive lives. Most important however is that people get sober, and many come back to support of the community and the next person needing help. That's how it works. Get help to get sober, give help to stay sober.
Webster Place Recovery Center has now been entrusted, by the board, to Easter Seals via merger for administrative control (though the Webster Place board is still in place to keep a focus on our mission.) Why ? To help create a greater vision capable of reaching more people and to become part of a continuum of care. Read more here from Easter Seals CEO Larry Gammon. I would like to personally thank the initial and additional board members who volunteered their time (and in many cases, materials and money) and served a year or more to make this possible: Mel Fisk (incorporating past board member /past secretary), George Howard (incorporating board member /past secretary), Jeff Caron (incorporating past board member), Bill Dailey (incorporating past board member), Marty LeFebvre (board member, treasurer), and our current board chairman Charles Clarckson.
In service of Webster Place residents, then and now,
Paul Lavallee, volunteer board member, incorporator & past chairman (2008-2009)
Click here to meet our staff!
(Please note some e-mail addresses have changed, click the above link to view staff's new e-mail addresses)
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Upcoming Events & Meetings
Join the private alumni only Facebook group page:
Join us for our weekly meetings
Alanon Meetings
Wednesday at 6:15-7:15pm
Alumni Meetings
Wednesday at 6:15-7:15pm
Alumni forum for peer support. Any topics are open for discussion. Keep in touch with peers and folks you met at Webster Place. Alumni are always welcome to join us prior to Alumni meeting for dinner (Please call ahead due to limited seeting availability). You will always be part of Webster Place -- this place will always be part of you.
Open Speaking Meeting of Alcoholic's Anonymous
Wednesday at 7:30 pm and Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday: Pancakes & Promises - food at 8:00 am, meeting at 8:30 am
Family Healing Strategies Workshop with Diana Clark
Sunday November 20th, 2011 9am-12pm
Alumni Dinner with the director and staff
Wednesday November 16th, 2011 at 5:15pm
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual Alumni Picnic on September 27th. Alumni, staff, friends, and family all joined together for a day of fun, friendship, and fellowship!
We love seeing possitive changes!
Quote from one of the residents:
From Prison to Pancakes & Promises
"From behind cement walls and razor wire fences, I couldn't picture wearing my own clothes, never mind wanting to live clean and sober and participating in groups with people I didn't know. Initially, completing the program as a part of parole was all that was important to me...until I walked through the door.
Instead of me versus the staff, I came to realize real quick, that we were one in the same; all with a long history of pain and hard consequences due to drugs and alcohol. All that was suggested is that I open my ears and see if I was powerless over the grip of addiction.
As the time went by I couldn't help but want to change and listen to suggestions. It was easy to see that I had to be part of AA and to work on my sobriety day to day in order to save my life and be successful.
If I didn't pick up the phone and call Webster Place, nothing in my life would have changed. For me, this is a starting point towards a new life, freedom from incarceration, and freedom inside myself."
-JayJay
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Recipes from Martha
Just in time for Fall!
Butternut Squash and Corn Chowder
What you will need:
1/2 lb. smoked bacon, diced
1 medium onion, diced
2 cups butternut squash, peeled and finely diced
1 bay leaf
Chicken stock
1 tbls. chopped parsley
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 cups corn kernels
1/4 cup chopped scallions
2 cups heavy cream
Directions:
Fry the bacon in a soup pot, drain off half of the bacon grease, return to the stove. Add the diced onions and cook 2-3 minutes, until clear. Add the diced potatoes, finely diced butternut squash, bay leaf and enough chicken stock to cover. Simmer the soup until the potatoes are tender. Add the corn, chopped parsley, chopped scallions, brown sugar and heavy cream. Stir well. Simmer soup until the corn is tender, approximately 5-10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serves 6-8.
This creamy, delicious soup is perfect to warm you up on a cool, fall afternoon!
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Family Healing Strategies Workshop:
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Who is this for: Suggested and highly recommended for all parents, step parents, siblings, spouses, children, step children, step siblings, aunts, uncles,cousins, boyfriend, girlfriend, or anyone joined by blood or love to alcoholics or addicts. All families of Webster Place residents are especially encouraged, but anyone can register for the workshop whether who you care about is at Webster Place or not.
Where: Webster Place Recovery Center
When: Workshops are held on the first Sunday of every month (from 9 am to 12 noon.)
What it is about: It is the best investment you can make towards understanding the disease of addiction, signs, symptoms, how to support and not enable, and how to create a supportive recovery environment.The number of participants in each workshop is limited, and we encourage you to make your reservation as soon as possible. The Family Healing Strategies Work Shops are authored and facilitated by Addictions consultant Diana Clark, JD.,MA.
(FamilyHealingStrategies@gmail.com 802 236 0145)
Investment: $150/ person for general public, $100/ person is for the workshop for families of Webster residents.
Upcoming Workshops :
Sunday, November 20th, 2011 9am to 12pm
Sunday, December 18th, 2011 9am to 12pm
"I have been to this and highly recommend it for everyone who has not been to it. Families are crucial to recovery support, and to know how not to engage in enabling - during someone's stay and after someone leaves WP. Successful residents and families refer others in need to us."
-Paul Lavallee, Board of Directors
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Goodwill asks for volunteers!
Goodbridges Mentoring Program
Do you think that College is out of your reach?
That's what Kelly Riley thought. But she listened to a friend who was going to college just two weekends a month. Her friend said she loved her classes because she was learning about social justice. Kelly's friend was so proud and boasted, "I am improving my writing so much and I am getting all A's." Kelly asked a few more questions and found out that her friend was earning her college degree in Human Services at Springfield College in Manchester, NH.
So Kelly decided to check this college out for herself. She found out that Springfield College, Manchester, NH was for adult learners who decided to finally get their college degree and to make a difference. Springfield College's classes were all discussion-based-there were no exams but the students read from journal articles that were just published. Both the students and the faculty were working together in class--there were no lectures--they analyzed real-life problems and learned how to community organize to solve society's problems. The class that Kelly visited was about women who were homeless, some even had children who were homeless with them. These women could not find their way to safe housing or even find a job that would feed their children. Kelly learned that these Springfield College students were studying how to be advocates and how to give these homeless women the skills they needed to network with the right people to help them rise up Kelly also learned at Springfield College that what these homeless women needed most of all, was someone to listen to their stories and to give them hope, that yes, things can get better if you ask the right questions. Kelly Riley is now in her third semester at Springfield College and is loving her work as a Master Mentor Recovery Coach at Goodbridges. Kelly will be graduating in May but even now she is recommending Springfield College, Manchester to women who want to make a change in their lives for the better. Kelly's long-range goal is to start a transitional housing center for women and their families. One of Kelly's mentors is Cheryl Wilkie, who is the director of the Farnum Center in Manchester, NH and also is a graduate of Springfield College. One of the best pieces of advice, Kelly ever got was from Cheryl,: "find the answer." And Kelly Riley is doing just that with one mentee at a time and every time she is in a class at Springfield College, Manchester, NH. If you are looking for "the answer," just ask Kelly Riley. She finds them everyday and she is loving it.
Kelly Riley, Master Mentor Recovery Coach
603.622.3020 x 20
Kriley@eastersealsnh.org
The Goodwill Goodbridges Mentoring project is grant funded by the US Department of Justice. Goodbridges serves women offenders re-entering the communities of Concord, Nashua and Manchester. Goodbridges assists women offenders in the areas of recovery coaching, job readiness and placement and community resource connections. Goodbridges partners with Farnum Center and Keystone Hall to provide some of these services. Goodbridges volunteer mentors work with mentees four hours per month during a 12 month period.
If you are interested in being a volunteer mentor, please contact:
Kelly Paquette, Program Manager
Goodwill Industries of Northern New England
(603) 369-3010 or
kelly.paquette@goodwillnne.org
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"Limited expectations yield only limited results" -Susan Laurson Willig
From the Big Book of AA:
"We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed"
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 25
From The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of NA:
"Love is a principle that is expressed in the practice of goodwill toward one another"
~Narcotics Anonymous, It Works How and Why, Tradition One, pg. 131 |
Drug & Alcohol Recovery at WPRC:
Our mission is to help restore the lives of men and woman seeking sobriety, reduce their chances for relapse, and ease their transition back into everyday life. We simply help each other grow into recovery, and into a changed way of life, one day at a time...in a serene & spiritual setting...with support, to allow this transformation to occur. The value of 12-Step programs lie in the special relationships and support one gets when sharing his/her story with another person experiencing recovery.
Recovery Goals at Webster Place
1. Abstinence from alcohol and other mind altering drugs. 2. Peer Based Recovery introduction and support of the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions recovery program as a solution to substance abuse.
Program EnhancementsWe believe recovery can actually be fun, relieve stress, and help restore mental and physical well being. Our program enhancements include: music; exercise; reiki; acupuncture; gardening; culinary .... and much more.
For more information, please contact Webster Place at 1-603-934-2020.
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Webster Place is a sanctuary and opportunity for those ready to begin a journey of change and recovery. People helping people grow - into recovery and out of trouble, one person at a time - one day at a time.
or If you have any items you would like to donate that would be greatly appreciated.
Think of Webster Place:
Current wish list items include: Snow shoes for men & women, musical instruments
(such as guitars, drums, keyboards...), farming tools, woodworking tools, twin bed frames/headboards, computers, golf gear, fishing gear, hiking shoes, bicycles, basketballs, softball equipment, porch swings, outdoor furniture......and of course AA/NA materials
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and alcoholism, residential recovery center for adult men and women.
27 Holy Cross Rd, Franklin, New Hampshire, 03234 - Phone: 603 934 2020 Fax: 603-934-9815 - info@WebsterPlace.org
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