Stories

Jessica Jones, Peer Support Specialist and Supervisor at our Serenity Peer Recovery Drop-In Center, was taken by surprise when she received the Change Maker Award at the Rally for Recovery.

Wilson House has been actively engaging the Pawtucket community through monthly events

A Community that slays together, stays together.

Christopher Lloyd, Peer Recovery Specialist with Community Care Alliance has almost 5 years sobriety from heroin, alcohol and other substances. Right off the bat he tells me…“I am a patient of MOUD that utilizes Methadone.”

The festival began with monk’s prayers in the morning. After their meal of the day, one of the monks came around to each table to bless us. Our very own Community Care Alliance Team had the opportunity to get blessed by the Head Monk and respectfully follow the customs.

Lauren had a rough childhood with a father who abused drugs and alcohol. He eventually became homeless. She and her mom and sister spent a lot of nights sleeping in the car in a train station parking lot to escape the violence in the household. M​any events of that time are too disturbing to even put into words.

Ambulatory Detox is an outpatient program with intensive, daily health monitoring. Clients, whether in Community Care Alliance outpatient or inpatient programs, are followed with approaches and methods that allow them to create healthy new habits, expand their skills, and implement these practices into their daily lives. Learn more about the Ambulatory Detox Team.

On a recent Saturday night, the Mobile Crisis Team was called out for someone being discharged from the hospital who needed emergency assessment due to their fragile mental health status. That night, the Mobile Crisis Team coordinated with the Emergency Services Team to connect this individual with a prescriber for an emergency medication appointment, which stabilized this individual enough to be able to proceed with intake into services.