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AWARE RECOVERY CARE

Meet Aware Recovery Care

Delivering innovative addiction services by transforming the home into the treatment center.

Aware Recovery Care provides accessible recovery solutions by delivering innovative addiction services to those in need right where they live. Privacy and anonymity are respected, and dignity is preserved as they provide a full continuum of home-based care including withdrawal management (in-home detox), medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and management, individual therapy, family therapy, and coordinated medical and behavioral healthcare that is discreet and effective.

SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is delighted to enter into a mission-driven partnership with this innovator in addiction treatment.

A Trusted Resource and Champion of Recovery.

Aware Recovery Care is not only a SHE RECOVERS trusted resource and partner but is also the main sponsor of our 2023 signature event, SHE RECOVERS in CHICAGO, which will take place September 29 to October 1, 2023. We are honored to have the support of Aware Recovery Care to bring this three-day experience highlighting and celebrating strength, diversity, inclusion, and innovation to recovering women and and non-binary individuals who identify with women’s recovery communities.

Aware also made a $50,000 donation in support of SHE RECOVERS Foundation’s mission in 2022. SHE RECOVERS Foundation is grateful to Aware Recovery Care for their ongoing partnership and outstanding commitment to providing trauma-focused, in-home addiction treatment and mental health services to those in need.

Meet Aware

“We are absolutely thrilled to be partnering with Aware Recovery Care so that we can work together to provide a continuum of accessible, individualized, responsive and evidence-based recovery solutions for women. We are grateful to be aligned with an organization that truly believes in a client-centered approach to treatment and meeting people right where they are at. We believe the in-home recovery treatment programming provided by Aware is unparalleled in their ability to provide holistic support that empowers recovering women to receive treatment in a way that best suits their lifestyle, needs, and respective recovery pathways and patchworks.”

~ Susan Carter, SHE RECOVERS Foundation Executive Director ~

About Aware Recovery Care

Their mission at Aware Recovery Care is to deliver compassionate and lasting solutions for addiction – helping people to “recover where they live.” They do this by transforming the home into a truly client and family-centered treatment environment where people are able to heal and find sustained recovery. They treat a broad spectrum of addictions as they would chronic illness, and their ground-breaking and evidence-based treatment approach provides comprehensive care from a multidisciplinary team of clinicians led by an addiction psychiatrist, a family systems therapist, a registered nurse, and certified recovery advisors. Aware helps their clients learn new skills and daily habits required to maintain abstinence while remaining amongst family and friends in their community, thereby avoiding the often-difficult return home from traditional treatment options.

Clients of Aware engage in a structured, 52-week biopsychosocial curriculum. This patient-centered and medically integrated in-home program is designed to ensure compliance and engagement, while preventing relapses/recurrences. They also offer the possibility of receiving longer-term recovery care.

Aware Recovery Care in-home services are available in Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Virginia – which requires a Mobile Recovery Program – so, no matter where the client is, the Aware team is there.

“Aware Recovery Care is a proud supporter of the many women in need of substance use disorder treatment. Women have very unique needs, and we are honored to be part of the solution and innovative efforts as the presenting sponsor of SHE RECOVERS in CHICAGO and as a SHE RECOVERS Trusted Resource!”

~ Shelley Halligan, DNP, PMHNP-BC, Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs for Aware Recovery Care ~

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Managing the Aftershock of Crisis & Social Isolation | #MentalHealthMonday

In this presentation, Sarah Benton of Aware Recovery Care will discuss how pandemic-related increases in mental health and addiction concerns have impacted individuals in terms of their physical, behavioral, emotional, cognitive and social wellness. She will guide us to explore the effects of stress as well as the importance of self-care in our recovery journeys and teach us how to navigate our own personal challenges following this unprecedented time.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday, Sarah will help us to understand:

Social isolation, physical distance and re-opening stress factors
Types of stress
Coping strategies
Creating balance

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We’re dedicated to creating innovative collaborations with corporate recovery partners and industry champions.

These collaborations allow us to further our mission to redefine recovery, inspire hope, end stigma and shame, and empower women to increase their recovery capital with a lifeline of support. Corporate recovery partners aligned with our Intentions & Guiding Principles, will be offered the ability to strengthen relationships with their customers, clients and communities by partnering with one of the largest and most progressive grassroots movements today.

Our diverse and passionate network of more than 325,000 women, and the virtual and viral nature of our movement, offers unique opportunities for creative partnerships that will advance the goals and objectives of both organizations.

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Shelly Dimitrijevic

Shelly Dimitrijevic’s professional and philanthropic activities have always focused on improving the lives of others. She began her nursing career at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis and went on to become a LifeFlight nurse specializing in neonatal, pediatric, and cardiovascular intensive care.

Shelly has been involved with numerous charities focusing on children and education including the Charlee and the Chocolate Factory gala, The Venus Orbit, Design For A Cure, Jackson Memorial, and Impact Oasis. In 2010 she founded the Lotus program, a program that focused on educating parents on the nutritional needs of children and basic child development. Shelly also served on the Frost Science Museum gala committee for 7 years before Co-Chairing the event in 2015.

After a diagnosis of Celiac disease and subsequently receiving Certification as a Nutritional Consultant, Shelly recognized that topically applied products have an effect on her Celiac Disease and overall health. She turned her focus to developing skincare that was free of toxic and hormone-disrupting ingredients.

Since she lost her only sibling in 2012 Shelly has been determined to find a way to contribute to the recovery community in a way that can make a great impact and ensure that others have the resources necessary when they are struggling.

Shelly's substantial contributions to SHE RECOVERS of both time and resources have been instrumental and deeply appreciated.

Kirsten Newquist

As a result of being introduced to SHE RECOVERS through retreats and meet-ups, Kirsten will be starting her yoga teacher training in the fall. These retreats also led her to become more deeply involved with SHE RECOVERS in a volunteer capacity. Kirsten was instrumental in setting up some of the Foundation's grassroots groups and currently volunteers her time helping SHE RECOVERS Foundation to design and implement the Volunteer Chapter Network. Kirsten and her husband recently moved from Southern California to Roswell, Georgia to be closer to Kirsten's sister and two young nieces. When she isn't spending time being an aunt, you can find Kirsten hanging out with their rescue Labrador or exploring their new state.

Mary Beth O'Connor

Mary Beth is a founding member of SHE RECOVERS Support for Legal Professionals and is active at the local level with SHE RECOVERS in the Bay Area. Mary Beth has been living a sober life in recovery for over 26 years. She also has a history of trauma and abuse, from which she’s worked hard to recover as well. 6 years into her recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014 Mary Beth was appointed an Administrative Law Judge. She recently retired, so she could devote her time to completing her writing and being more active in the recovery community.

She regularly speaks on behalf of LifeRing and develops relationships with organizations supportive of the multiple pathways approach. In August 2020, Mary Beth had an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, I Beat Addiction without God, where she described building a personal recovery plan by combining ideas from LifeRing, Women for Sobriety, and Narcotics Anonymous. In November 2020 she had an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I was a federal judge, and I support Safehouse. Here’s why. She is currently working on a full-length memoir.

Taryn Strong

Taryn Strong is a founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as well as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, recovery coach, aromatherapist, and herbalist (and daughter to Mama Dawn). Taryn has developed a unique yoga retreat program and led over 40 yoga for recovery retreats since 2012. She is also the host of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast and most recently created and taught the inaugural trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher Training Program. Operating from a trauma-informed lens and a firm believer in anti-oppressive practices, Taryn brings an empathic and invitational approach to healing - empowering women to find and follow individualized pathways and patchworks of recovery.

Taryn's courageous vulnerability and passion for recovering out-loud has made her an influential voice in the global recovery movement - smashing the stigma often associated with substance use and mental health issues. Taryn creates and lives with her beloved and two dogs within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples (Saltspring Island).

Susan Carter

Susan is an architect of hope and healing with over 30 years of experience in providing executive-level leadership to heart-centered teams in the non-profit realm. Since joining SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as Executive Director in April 2020, Susan continues to weave her experience with her passion to help other women receive what she has been so graciously given – long-term recovery from substance use disorder, body image issues, codependency, perfectionism, and moral injury.

Susan’s work in the treatment industry quickly revealed how stigma kept women struggling with mental health issues and addiction from seeking help, and the lack of resources available to them once they did. Having served as a founding employee of Susan G. Komen for the Cure for 20 years, playing an integral role in creating the global grassroots movement that changed the way breast cancer is talked about and treated, she felt called to utilize that experience to do the same for women struggling with mental health and substance use disorders.

Celebrating more than 27 years of continuous sobriety, Susan is a Certified Peer Support Worker (CPSW) in the state of New Mexico to provide resources and peer support to those in or seeking recovery. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her fur family of four, Alex, Chaco, Bodhi, and Gracie.

Dawn Nickel

Dawn Nickel, Founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation, is a thought leader in the women's recovery sphere as well as an accomplished leader, dedicated researcher, and visionary in the recovery moment. She holds a Ph.D. in health care policy with extensive experience in researching and writing about women experiencing substance use disorders, mental health challenges, and intimate partner violence. Dawn started her own journey of recovery from a substance use disorder and domestic violence in 1987. She is also in recovery from anxiety, grief, trauma, overworking, and cancer. Dawn's tell-it-like-it-is wisdom has created a ripple effect where you will often hear her quotes "the shit you did is just the shit you did - it's not who you are" and "recovering from all the things" resonating throughout many recovery realms.

Currently working on her first book, Dawn is living proof that in a world where all women in or seeking recovery are celebrated, supported, and deemed essential to healthy communities - anything is possible. She is fondly referred to as Mama Dawn in the SHE RECOVERS Community and to her daughters Taryn and Ashley. Dawn lives, works, and plays with her beloved grandchildren on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen speaking peoples on Vancouver Island.

Nika is just one of more than 325,000 women in the She Recovers Community.

“Alcohol is what brought me into recovery but for me, it didn't tell the full story. That is why I love SHE RECOVERS so much. We don't just talk about our demons and the drugs and the alcohol, we talk about the real issues that led us to using those things in the first place.”— Nika

When she was ready to deal with her past traumas and what drove her to drink, SHE RECOVERS was there. Sadly an estimated 34 million women are suffering from mental health/substance use disorders.

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