1st Annual Breakfast Fundraiser

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The country’s opioid epidemic, a plague since the 1990s, has awakened the public to a new understanding about substance use: who it impacts and how prevalent it truly is in society. However, though the problem is well-publicized, the stigma of drug and alcohol use still leaves many people feeling alone in the struggle to overcome addiction. Springs Recovery Connection (SRC) is a nonprofit community organization working to address that stigma …

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It was a time they could share a long-awaited announcement and cheer together heartily, sometimes tearfully, for the almost 650 supporters and volunteers at the Aug. 24 Come Walk With Me Breakfast. Just 13 days earlier, funding had been secured and Springs Recovery Connection had closed on a building for a collaborative Recovery Community Center…

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.

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In a world where social interaction can mean the difference between staying off alcohol and drugs or going back to addiction, Pikes Peak region recovery groups are working to balance the need to keep people apart and keeping them sober.

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