Episode 7: Sound Minds Recovery Centers and Hope

06/18/20 • 13 min

Milt and Adam discuss the future opening and importance of Sound Minds Recovery Centers (SMRC) which will be located in Long Beach, Washington. WBH plans on standing up a 50-bed Residential Treatment Facility (hopefully January 2021) to expand the range of services that we can offer to our clients, adding in-patient treatment. We want to provide the whole continuum of trauma-informed, trauma-focused care, from inpatient to outpatient. Parts of this podcast are messages of hope, finding the strength to seek help, and interventions. We hope you enjoy!

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What is Person-Centered Care? Adam and Milt discuss partnering with a person to achieve their goals. We recognize that every person has unique needs, strengths, and gaps that they desire to narrow or close permanently. This is a great opportunity to highlight the importance of recognizing a strengths-based approach to care. We encourage your feedback. Do you agree that focusing on one’s strengths is an important part of goal-setting? Leave us some feedback!

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Episode 8: Arielle Discusses Her Passion as a Peer Counselor

Arielle discusses the successes of the Opioid Use Reduction and Recovery (OURR) Alliance program at Willapa Behavioral Health. Arielle serves as a peer counselor at Willapa Behavioral Health, serving under the umbrella of the OURR program. She helps remove barriers for people who seek employment opportunities and connect people to resources: transportation to job interviews, notebook computers to search for jobs and write resumes, money for gas, child care opportunities, interview clothes, and even haircuts. Her work is inspirational. Arielle ends the show with her goal of starting a non-profit in the future.