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GUEST COLUMN: Transcending the stigma about addiction recovery
Based on a recent community meeting to address the proposed variance to the property use at 820 N 30th St, Colorado Springs, (currently the First Evangelical Free Church), and the subsequent reaction by some members of the Pleasant Valley neighborhood, we feel compelled to address citizens of Colorado Springs to talk about the importance of…
Community Listening Forum
Springs Recovery Connection in conjunction with The Coalition for Prevention, Addiction Education, & Recovery (CPAR), and the Pikes Peak Library District is hosting a COMMUNITY LISTENING FORUM: SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS AND RECOVERY Event Type: Adult Library ProgramsAge Group: Teens, Adults, Seniors Community members are invited to attend this listening forum where a panel of community…
Springs Recovery Connection welcomes Trudy Strewler Hodges as new CEO
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.
AROUND TOWN: Come Walk With Me breakfast announces innovative Recovery Community Center
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…
Mother creates PPCC scholarship to help recovering drug addicts
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A mother from Colorado Springs who lost her daughter to a heroin overdose is now using that experience to help others with the help of Pikes Peak Community College. “Seeing the pictures of Branwyn, here’s this young woman so smart, so bright and full of life, and one last hit was…
Alcoholism brought her to death’s door at 31. Now she’s helping others recover through hospital peer coach program
“She began drinking alcohol at age 11 and didn’t stop until 20 years later, when her liver and kidneys began failing to the point that doctors told her she had just a few weeks to live….one physician told Lemuel’s mother to start making her funeral arrangements.”