The North East Recovery Learning Community
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Activities for this month:
Please see calendar and flyers for more detailed information.
(click on individual underlined links below for more information)
Special Events
- Advocacy Alert: Peer Support Workers Forum
May 11 - Location to be announced!
- NERLC Hub Retreat - Tuesday, May 22, 2012
NILP, Lawrence
- The Premiere of a Short Film: The Art of Making & Keeping Friends
May 31, Cinema Salem, One East India Square, MA
- Intentional Peer Support - Wednesday, June 6th, 2012, 10:00AM- 4:00PM
The Lawrence Elks 652 Andover Street Lawrence, MA 01843
Download Registration Form Here
Trainings
Essex North Area:
Lawrence
Haverhill
Lowell Area:
Lowell
Lynn Area:
Lynn
Metro North Area:
Wakefield
Malden
North Shore Area:
Salem
Beverly
RLC Articles Archives
Commissioner recognizes RLCs - May 2010
No Surrender 22 Conference - June 2010
L.O.V.E. Group went to Salisbury Beach- August 2010
NILP's North East Recovery Learning Community Experiences Explosive Growth!
November 2010
 About The North East Recovery Learning Community
The North East Recovery Learning Community (NE RLC) is in its third year of providing peer-run support and services to people with psychiatric disabilities throughout the North Shore and Merrimack Valley. Many new staff have joined the RLC and numerous program initiatives are well underway.
The RLC offers recovery-oriented, trauma informed care and culturally sensitive peer support, both in group settings and on an individual basis. Among the core activities we provide are information and referral, peer counseling, peer advocacy and skills training. We are also offering an ever-expanding list of self-help activities, training opportunities, and support to Peer Specialists and other peers working in traditional mental health settings.
The newest program at NILP, the RLC is one of the state's six Recovery Learning Communities, a project funded by the Department of Mental Health. All of the RLCs are peer-run and offer support, advocacy, information and referral, as well as self-help workshops and trainings to help persons with psychiatric disabilities optimize their wellness and strengthen their support networks. Our logo is a phoenix flanked by a rising sun, both symbols of hope and renewal, reminding us that we are the experts at charting our own, individually unique paths to recovery.
You can click on this link, to view the RLC's activities in the current month. Some highlights are worth mentioning:
» Click here to find out about our Warmline support.
» Numerous support groups assist patients at Tewksbury Hospital, as many of them prepare for discharge into the community. RLC staff members also provide technical assistance to Patient Advisory Committees, to support the decision-making and growth of people receiving services in the hospital.
» The "Creative Expressions Collaborative" is in full swing at both the Point After Club and the Haverhill Clubhouse, an ongoing venture involving the RLC, Point After Club, "People! Drop In Center, and the North East Young Adult Initiative, offering weekly peer group with a focus on creativity.
» A weekly Craft Group continues to meet in Gloucester at the Open Door, 32 Emerson Street, Gloucester, meeting every Wednesday from 6:00 to8:00 PM, facilitated by a local peer.
» Continuing participation in a significant statewide initiative, "Latinos in Action."
» Ongoing collaboration with the Community Based Flexible Support Teams in all five sites served by the NE RLC, and a collegial partnership with the RLC's funding source, the MA Department of Mental Health.
»Expanding opportunities for people to come to the RLC office to give and receive informal support and donate their time on various projects.
While the Northeast Independent Living Program's "Peer Counseling Project," which provided one-on-one peer support and advocacy for persons with psychiatric disabilities in the Greater Merrimack Valley, is coming to a close as we start fiscal year 2011, a host of new programs sponsored by NILP's North East Recovery Learning Community are in the development stage. At a meeting held at the NERLC on July 15, current and recent graduates of the Peer Counseling Training expressed enthusiastic excitement about teaming up as Peer Facilitators for various Support and Learning Groups in the Northeast’s 52 cities and towns. Such groups include Dual-Recovery, Creative Arts and Expressions, and Making and Keeping Friends. The NERLC staff is prepared to support the up-and-coming Peer Facilitators in their new roles by helping them locate community space, outreach to local communities and provide mentoring and supervision along the way. The kick-off for the NERLC's Support and Learning Group Initiatives will take place on Thursday, July 22 at the Peer Counselors'’ Graduation Dinner Celebration.
» The NERLC has an ambitious vision and is planning to add a number of well-being initiatives to those listed just above for the North East area. We are committed to the re-education and training of ourselves as whole people who choose to uncover and connect deeply to our true selves so that we can relate to the Earth, ourselves, and all "others" in the various communities of our choosing to create the full lives we want. We are planning curricula in areas such as shared decision-making, nutrition, exercise groups, reiki, movement for stress-emotion-mind management, music & movement, gardening, and ecotherapy groups. Plans include peer educator trainings in many of these areas, as well.
Northeast Independent Living Program’s Recovery Learning Center is Pleased to Announce Our: WARMLINE SUPPORT
The Warmline provides A Friendly Voice - 6 Nights/Week
A Spanish speaking peer is available on Sundays and Tuesdays.
Call: 1-877-733-7563 v 1-877-PEER-LNE
Tuesday - Sunday evenings 4 - 8 p.m.
A Friendly Voice - 6 Nights/Week
Questions about the Warm Line can be emailed to info@bostonresourcecenter.org, or alternatively, please contact:
Ms. Jo Bower, Director
NE Recovery Learning Community/NILP
20 Ballard Road, Lawrence, MA 01843
Phone: 978-687-4288x130v/ttty
Email: jbower@nilp.org
Sponsored by: The Northeast Recovery Learning Community & The Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community
North East Recovery Learning Center Staff
Director, Jo Bower
Peer Support Coordinator, Kellianne O’Brien
Multicultural Outreach & Resource Specialist, Pablo Leon
Peer Specialist/Skills Trainer, Oliva Tejada
WRAP Coordinator, Vida Whitcomb
Peer Specialist, Sam Chivers
Peer Specialist, Denise Valerio
For more information, please contact:
The North East Recovery Learning Community at NILP,
20 Ballard Road, Lawrence, MA 01843
Phone: 978-687-4288 (v/tty)
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