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In the five years that Trudy Strewler Hodges has been the CEO of Serenity Recovery Connection, clients have ballooned from 600 served when she started the job to 5,000 participants today. The demand for the peer-to-peer coaching the organization provides for people entering or in recovery is a testament to the pervasiveness of substance abuse, and…
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By Faith Miller While emergency department staff have the best of intentions when treating people who’ve just overdosed, they sometimes have trouble relating to patients. “We know that doctors and nurses do great work, and they save people’s lives every day,” says Tonya Wheeler, the executive director of Denver nonprofit Advocates for Recovery. “Oftentimes the…
Springs Recovery Connection (SRC), a local non-profit dedicated to furthering community support and advocacy for those affected by substance use disorder, is pleased to announce the addition of Trudy Strewler Hodges as the new Chief Executive Officer. Hodges, the former CEO of Pikes Peak Community Foundation and longtime Executive Director at CASA of the Pikes Peak Region, has over three decades working in non-profit management in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. “I am honored to have been chosen as the CEO of Springs Recovery Connection,” said Hodges.
THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE IS A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Deeply entrenched social stigma have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum has been filled with sensational mass media depictions of people with addiction that perpetuate a…
The opioid epidemic and struggles with substance abuse have been in the headlines more often over the last five years. From discussions in congress and the state capitol, it’s becoming an issue increasingly impacting more Coloradans. “There’s a stereotype that people have in their minds I believe of who the average victim of an overdose…
