Episode 8: Arielle Discusses Her Passion as a Peer Counselor

06/24/20 • 50 min

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.

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Episode 7: Sound Minds Recovery Centers and Hope

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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Episode 9: Family Voice and Choice: How Wraparound Services Embody the Spirit of Person-Centered Care

WBH’s CEO Adam Marquis and Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) Elizabeth Limbocker, discuss the Wraparound with Intensive Services (WISe) program and its connection to person-centered care. Our WISe program allows families receiving our services to have a complete voice in their care plans. The WISe program also allows families and WISe Teams to utilize a vast network of human relationships to assist with care such as friends, schools, and members of the community. Elizabeth and Adam discuss WISe as a support system, how families can seek WISe services, the voice of the client in their care plans while receiving WISe services, Child and Family Team meetings, and all of the wonderful people involved in the healing process.