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WICAP in Idaho

Led by the Western Idaho Community Action Partnership, a task force of rural healthcare providers and non-profits in Payette, Idaho is taking the first steps toward developing recovery housing for the homeless and addicted in southwest Idaho. “The Fletcher group has been extremely helpful,” says WICAP Executive Director Heidi Caldwell.

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NARSS in Montana

“Isolation is the enemy, community is the answer,” says Don Roberts. “That’s why I’m so emotional about the way our community has come together. Six years ago we had nothing here but AA. Now, in addition to lots of great programs, we have the most crucial piece: a safe, sober living space where people can develop the skills to meet life on its own terms.”

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SMART in Ohio

The faith-based, privately funded Beneath The Shade women's recovery center just outside Dover, Ohio isn't the most likely setting for secular, science-driven recovery. "In the beginning we were just a bunch of church ladies praying together, with no idea how to get started," says Board Member Traci Hooper.

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SMART in New York

Once a booming industrial center with more millionaires per capita than any other American city, Watertown, New York began losing residents and businesses in the mid-60s. Like other ‘left behind’ communities in rural America, ensuing workforce and infrastructure challenges have been exacerbated by high rates of substance use.

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Thinking Big

Pastor Matt Johnson wanted more. He was already running a sober recovery program from his Suncrest United Methodist Church in Morgantown when he contacted Karen Coburn, the Fletcher Group's Outreach and Engagement Specialist for West Virginia. "I'm not sure she knew what she was getting into," says Johnson. "But from that moment on we've been moving at warp speed—much quicker than anyone could have expected.

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SMART in Virginia

People the world over feel compelled to help others overcome the same challenges they’ve overcome. That impulse seems especially powerful in the recovery community. One good example is Leon Richardson who rehabbed the first time at 17 and nearly three decades later became a resident at a Piedmont Recovery Residence in Martinsville, Virginia that he now oversees as Program Manager.

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STEP Steps Up

Learn how STEP, a Montana nonprofit, expanded its services to include five recovery homes and strengthened its approach to recovery housing with support from Fletcher Group. This success story highlights STEP’s growth, the development of housing for women and children, and how technical assistance, connections, and practical guidance helped the organization build services responsive to the needs of its residents and community.

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Bridging the Gap

Substance use early in life can have enormous consequences, impairing healthy development and contributing to risky behavior. But how do you know if your child is using? Pediatrician Margaret Ng may have cracked the code by applying a new evidence-based screening and intervention process developed in partnership at Coal Grove Pediatrics in Ironton, Ohio.

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New Beginning

Entrepreneurial training sponsored in part by the Fletcher Group has helped residents of five Eastern Kentucky recovery centers find a new sense of self-worth and purpose by providing them with the skills and resources to start their own businesses.

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Seed Sower

Under the leadership of Executive Director Jay Phillips, Seed Sower, Inc. provides safe and supervised housing, transportation, and recovery support services to adult women in southern West Virginia who are in active recovery from a Substance Use Disorder.

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Lived Experience Pays

Discover how West Virginia Community Outreach & Residential Recovery (WVCORR) has grown from a small recovery center into a multi-program organization built around lived experience, peer support, employment, and recovery housing. This success story highlights how partnership with Fletcher Group helped WVCORR expand its social model approach, strengthen staff training, develop employment initiatives, and plan for a broader continuum of recovery support.

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Employment is Key

"Having a job helps you build a foundation," says Craig Dean, Case Manager at the Recovery Trail halfway house in the rural town of Sevierville, Tennessee. "It not only helps people pay the bills, put food on the table, and take care of child support. It also builds self-worth and a sense of accomplishment.”

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