The Harbour Recovery Centre at Loughborough Junction celebrated its10th anniversary recently with guest speaker Rosanna O’Connor, Director of Addictions and Inclusion, Office for Health, Inclusion & Disparities. And there were moving testimonies from peer mentors about their journeys of recovery.
Harbour Manager Dawn Brecken said that based on at least 25 people attending the centre each day to ‘meet key workers or work in recovery groups, we must have offered help to around 25,000 people over 10 years.
‘Predicting our next 10 years isn’t easy. The future could hold unknown drugs. But our immediate top priorities are to deliver more training and get more people qualified as peer mentors, and to offer weekend and evening opening so people who have moved on and are working are able to return and continue to get support.
‘We will continue to adapt to the needs of the community – but we will also go on doing what we already do so well.’
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UK Recovery Walk Festival
And this Saturday September 14 sees the UK Recovery Walk at Crystal Palace Park.
‘Join thousands of people in recovery, their families and friends for the biggest gathering of recovering people in Europe as we walk through the iconic Crystal Palace Park celebrating and advocating for recovery.’
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