This was a great weekend for Better Life in Recovery (BLiR). BliR is an organization whose purpose is to deal hope and decimate stigma surrounding addictions and mental health issues that men, women and children face everyday through community service, community education and public awareness events that celebrate people in long-term recovery. In short, our mission statement is, “Dealing Hope Decimating Stigma.”
To start changing public perception and reducing stigma we are partnering with people and organizations in our community. For the first community service event we partnered up with Springfield Public Schools. We had a group of about 25 people show up from various organizations to paint Cowden Elementary Schools playground. We also picked up trash from around the school and took rocks out of the soccer field.
McDonalds supplied us with three 5 gallon coolers of Hi-C and Papa Johns gave us an amazing deal on pizzas. We had volunteers from Higher Ground, Carol Jones Recovery Center, Alternative Opportunities Treatment Services, Hands Extended Outreach, Church at the Center and the Celebrate Recovery group from Glendale Christian Church.
We had an amazing group that worked hard the entire day, but still made time to laugh and have some fun. We worked so hard that we actually got done 2 hours sooner than expected and we did the job right. We did not just paint over the old loose paint. We scraped, sanded, primed and then painted the play ground as well as picked up trash and rocks from the fields. Our first project was such a success that they have asked us to do another school, which we will be doing. Our next school is the Sunshine Elementary School on June the 14th beginning at 8 AM.
We had several media outlets provide coverage. We were on the KTTS and KSMU page and had on air interviews. We were also on the 10 PM news on KY3 Saturday but they did not put it on their site and we will have coverage tonight on KOLR10 6 and 10 PMnews tonight.
KTTS -http://www.jrn.com/ktts/news/Recovery-Group-Spruces-Up-Springfield-School-Playground-257819581.html
KSMU - http://ksmu.org/article/local-organization-works-clear-stigma-addiction-recovery-83124
Don’t forget, IN RECOVERY YOU ARE THE RESOURCE!! WE have upcoming events including Recovery Day at Hammond’s Field and the 5K/10K Recovery Run coming up. If this is something you would like to get involved in or donate money to please contact me either through here or through the website at www.betterlifeinrecovery.comTogether we will make a difference!
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