A Certified Recovery Specialist Program
Offering a Professional Partnership in your Recovery Journey
THRIVE is a Recovery Revolution program based in Bangor, PA.
Why THRIVE?
The recovery journey can be overwhelming and difficult when trying to pursue change alone. It is an individualized path that can impact all aspects of life including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Our program is designed to help individuals THRIVE in their recovery.
Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS)
What is a CRS?
A Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS) is a professional with lived experience that partners to empower an individual with a substance abuse disorder.
Who can a CRS help?
- You must have a substance abuse diagnosis
- You must be at least 18 years old
- This program is funded by medical assistance, and scholarships are also available for those without PA State Medicaid
What can CRS’s do?
The CRS can assist individuals in these areas but are not limited to:
- Recovery Advocacy
- Identify Pitfalls to Recovery
- Recovery Coaching
- Resource Information Broker
- Life Skills Mentoring
- Utilize Recovery Principles
- Instill Hope & Encouragement
- Individualized Recovery Plan
- Identify Assist With Barriers
- Sober Supports Assessment
- Sober Activities
- Leadership/Role Model
- Program and more
What is the CRS Role?
A CRS can partner with participants before, during or after treatment episodes. They can help individuals explore ways to succeed by using recovery principles and assist with building an individualized recovery plan. A CRS meets a person where they are at, and helps them navigate the multiple pathways of recovery in order to THRIVE.
CRS’s do not take the place of clinical treatment, counselors, sponsors, or other sober supports; they do however support an individual’s choices in recovery. They work to expand the variety of support structures within the community.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a CRS?
A Certified Recovery Specialist is a person engaged in long term recovery having walked in their their shoes; is able to relate; to help explain how recovery works; and that individuals do recover.
So a CRS helps me? What does that relationship look like?
- A partnership on the recovery road map of success, and one of the keys to achieving a long term sustainable lifestyle of recovery.
- A connection of all things available to an individual in the recovery support systems including: basic needs, educational, employment, goal planning, recovery capital, leadership role modeling skills, attitudes, abilities, identification of barriers and motivational empowerment.
- A mentor of all things recovery, including: recovery coaching, recovery resources information broker, and a wellness advocate/practitioner of the multiple pathways of recovery.
How does an individual know if they need a CRS? How does one get a CRS?
The program and services of a THRIVE CRS are on a voluntary basis for anyone in recovery who may be struggling with relapse, barriers, and other obstacles keeping them from engaging in a lifestyle of long term sustained recovery.
Recovery Revolution
Recovery Revolution works diligently to address the needs of the Slate Belt. In 2018, Recovery Revolution recognized the need to expand our Recovery Support Services. To this end, we envisioned a program (eventually called THRIVE), and then spent two years pursing funding.
We received 6 months of funding from Northampton County Drug and Alcohol to assist with our start-up of THRIVE.
Presently, we can take any PA County Medical Assistance at no cost to the participant.
Contact Us
Phone
(610) 599-7700
Email
info@ThriveBangor.org
Mailing Address
THRIVE
c/o Recovery Revolution, Inc.
109 Broadway
Bangor, PA 18013
