[Vision2020] Open House

[Darrell Keim]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Latah Recovery Center will be holding a public open house on Saturday,
February 6 from 1:30 to 5:00 in the afternoon.  The Center is located at
531 S. Main (old Wheatberries) in Moscow.  The Latah Recovery Center is a
community of peer support for long term recovery from substance abuse
and/or mental illness.  It is staffed primarily by volunteers who are in
recovery and who mentor from their viewpoint of lived experience.  This
peer relationship has proved very successful in other recovery centers
across the nation to help individuals get started on and maintain a path to
recovery.  The Latah Recovery Center is different from many of the existing
centers in that it includes services for both substance abuse and mental
illness, which often occur together in an individual who is seeking
recovery.

Services are provided for individuals 18 years and older and are available
for all of Latah County.  Services offered by the Center include peer to
peer mentoring, resource referral, self-help group meetings, volunteer
training, classes to help individuals acquire life skills, suicide
prevention classes, smoking cessation classes.  Weekly and monthly
schedules are posted in several places in Moscow.  The services are
provided for anyone who requests them and, except for some volunteer
trainings, are free.

The Open House will not only provide a picture of how the Center looks and
works, but also information about self-help groups including Narcotics
Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, and North American Alliance for Mental
Health; peer recovery coaching; dual diagnosis (mental health and substance
abuse); and volunteering opportunities. The Center hopes to share this
information not only with the general public, but also mental health
providers, students, the medical community, educators, social service
providers, criminal justice providers, and anyone who thinks the Center
services may help someone YOU know.



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