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Stories Heal
Healing and recovery happen in many ways. Read about a book chronicling a Lansing-area project that used storytelling to help people who were homeless or had been homeless learn skills needed for recovery.
Storytelling Supports Recovery
A book published by Michigan State University Press, My Eyes Feel They Need to Cry: Stories from the Formerly Homeless, touches on the unique expressiveness of storytelling to nurture emotional well-being. It tells of a program run by the Michigan Historical Museum and Advent House Ministries. The program works with people in communities that have been—or are—experiencing homelessness and trauma to use the resources of the museum to tell their own stories. Once a week for four months, participants gathered at the museum to describe life as they knew it, learn historical research, paint, gain confidence, and fully understand the value of their experience. The book is a record of their journey.
Read about this project here.
Article excerpted from: https://www.samhsa.gov/homelessness-programs-resources/hpr-resources/storytelling-supports-recovery
Treatment is Effective and Can Be Tailored to the Individual
A Variety of Services are Available for Treatment and Support
Eaton County Treatment Providers:
Eaton Behavioral Health (EBH): Provides early intervention, outpatient and intensive outpatient care for substance use and related mental health needs. EBH serves teens, adults and families. Call (517) 543-2580. https://www.barryeatonhealth.org/health-services/substance-use-treatment-and-recovery
CMHA-CEI provides a wide range mental health and substance use disorder services to the residents of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham counties. CMHA-CEI provides crisis services, adult and children's mental health treatment, family interventions, developmentally disabled services and a wide range of community initiatives. The first step in getting started at CMHA-CEI is to contact Central Access by calling 1-888-800-1559 or (517) 346-8318. For more information about the services provided by Community Mental Health, go to: http://www.ceicmh.org/.
Ingham County Treatment Providers:
Child & Family Charities: Provides screening and counseling services to children, adolescents, and adults. Adolescent and adult substance use disorder care. Call (517) 882-4000. http://www.childandfamily.org/
Wellness, InX: The mission of Wellness, Inx (WINX) is to provide a strength-based approach to recovery by working alongside the Client to define their goals, strengths and barriers from which a self-directed plan of recovery is formulated. The clinic offers assessment and evaluation, strength-based case management, and peer recovery coach support. Call: (517) 272-0520. http://www.wellnessinx.com/wellness.html
Local Support Resources:
Central Michigan 211: A free and confidential phone service offering quick
access to local information about health and human services like housing, food,
jobs, veteran services, etc. www.centralmichigan211.org/
AA, Alanon and Alateen are support groups to help support people in recovery and those who care about them using the 12-step model. Meetings are available in person http://www.aalansingmi.org/meetings/ and online: https://www.aa-intergroup.org/. For more information, call the 24-hour hotline: 517-377-1444.
SMART Recovery is a self-empowering recovery support group. Participants learn tools for substance use disorder-recovery based on the latest scientific research and participate in a world-wide community which includes free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups. Meetings are available in person and online: http://www.smartrecovery.org/
Narcotics Anonymous is a support group for people recovering from drug use disorders. Mi-NA.org is dedicated to helping people to overcome the problems of addiction by providing a statewide website to help recovering people find meetings and local NA functions in their communities. http://michigan-na.org/
Families Against Narcotics: Families Against Narcotics (FAN) is a community based program for those seeking recovery, those in recovery, family members affected by substance use disorders and community supporters. FAN seeks to change the face of addiction, dispel the stigma of addiction, and educate the community as well as those affected by addiction. https://www.familiesagainstnarcotics.org/eatoncounty
Eaton County Substance Awareness Advisory Group
Vision: Our Coalition has a special focus on the prevention of drugs, tobacco and alcohol use by youth.
Email: ctuell@eatonresa.org
Website: http://www.eatondrugfree.org/
Location: 1790 Packard Highway, Charlotte, MI, USA
Phone: 517-541-8912
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ECSAAG/