Recovery Support Services

FOR PEOPLE IN RECOVERY, BY PEOPLE IN RECOVERY

RECOVERY SUPPORT & COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES AND RESOURCES.

SOS peer support specialists offer recovery supports and help with obtaining community-based services and resources, while providing hope and positive role modeling. Our peers also work with peers to develop their own individual recovery plans.

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Why Peer Based Recovery Support?

SOS peer support specialists promote recovery; remove barriers; build recovery capital; connect peers with recovery support services; and encourage hope, optimism, and healthy living. Peer recovery support workers often will assist individuals in removing various barriers such as assisting with employment, housing, educational needs, connections to mental health resources when desired, connections to meetings through multiple pathways, recovery-oriented social network events, activities, and other wellness-related opportunities. SOS peer support specialists will also provide crisis response and resources to those who may currently be working on reducing their substance use-related harms and building goals that are related to their specific recovery options.

Peer-assisted recovery supports are for people both in recovery from alcohol and other drugs themselves or for family members, friends, and loved ones of those who have been affected by another’s substance use, as well as people who are still actively using substances.

Peer support specialists are not therapists, counselors, clinicians, clergy, or 12-step sponsors. They occupy a very unique and distinct lane on the recovery highway.

Peer-assisted recovery support in the SOS Recovery Community Centers is provided by trained recovery support staff members, free of charge. All SOS peer support specialists have completed a 30-hour peer support services training as well as sixteen hours of ethical considerations in peer-assisted recovery.

At SOS Recovery Community Organization, you are in recovery if you say you are.

Notice to Participants:

The confidentiality of alcohol and drug use participant records is protected by federal law 42 USC 290dd-2 and 42 CFR Part 2. Generally, the program may not say to a person outside the program that a participant attends the program, or disclose any information identifying a participant with an alcohol or drug use dependency or disorder, unless: (1) the patient consents in writing; (2) the disclosure is allowed by a court order; (3) the disclosure is made to medical personnel in a medical emergency or to qualified personnel for research, audit, or program evaluation; (4) the participant commits or threatens to commit a crime either at the program or against any person who works for the program. Violation of federal regulations by a program is a crime. Suspected violations may be reported via phone to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Concord, NH. Federal law and regulations do not protect any information about suspected child abuse or neglect from being reported under state law to appropriate state of local authorities.