ATB NEWS
January 15, 2020
On January 18, we will hold another Certified Addiction Counselor training in partnership with Addiction Counselor USA. Each participant will receive a certificate of completion for that portion of what is an 18 month training course held once a month on Saturdays at our building. The time period can be reduced by doing on-line work, and if you have the hours of service in, this can be shortened to as little as 3 months.
ATB will be partnering with ACUSA to add Alcohol & Drug Counseling services on a sliding scale basis as well as other services such as Alcohol & Drug Assessment, Addiction Related Mental Illness Counseling, Parenting & Marriage Counseling and several other categories of counseling or coaching. For further info call Tony Reynolds at 678-787-9454.
In November we reached a new high in meeting attendance of 774 people during Thanksgiving week - we fed over 400 of those people a home cooked or catered meal. Many thanks to Campus Church, Life Church International, and the amazing sober living programs we work with. Because of those partnerships we have increased our weekly meeting attendance from an average of 250 per week in January to over 640 in December. Numbers tell one thing, but in reality our greatest measurement is in how lives have been changed, and our greatest interpretation of that is in how many return to pick up milestone recovery chips of beyond 30 days, and how many new leaders we develop.
In 2019 more than 1400 chips have been given out and over half are for longer than 30 days, and we have developed 15 new leaders to help carry this message of hope forward into 2020. These leaders become sponsors, lead meetings and do service work that propels others into sobriety and service as well. As we enter into a new year, our goals include developing Across The Bridge Academy, which further increases addiction awareness, addiction recovery and stresses developing leaders and mentors. Our development as an impactful organization within our community rests on our unique message of recovery and our increase in manpower to spread that message.
We are also proud of the fact that in early December of 2019 we had our first wedding within our building, led by recovering people, and both bride and groom have come through addiction recovery and the bride has become a leader in a sober living facility. It was beautiful, and another reminder that the process of recovery does work if we allow it to work. Learning how to manage a normal life is part of that process and understanding that a sober outcome can bring on the joy of a fantastic life.
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Please remember that we need Men's and Women's clothing and shoes as we have many in need and we distribute this clothing free.
ATB will be partnering with ACUSA to add Alcohol & Drug Counseling services on a sliding scale basis as well as other services such as Alcohol & Drug Assessment, Addiction Related Mental Illness Counseling, Parenting & Marriage Counseling and several other categories of counseling or coaching. For further info call Tony Reynolds at 678-787-9454.
In November we reached a new high in meeting attendance of 774 people during Thanksgiving week - we fed over 400 of those people a home cooked or catered meal. Many thanks to Campus Church, Life Church International, and the amazing sober living programs we work with. Because of those partnerships we have increased our weekly meeting attendance from an average of 250 per week in January to over 640 in December. Numbers tell one thing, but in reality our greatest measurement is in how lives have been changed, and our greatest interpretation of that is in how many return to pick up milestone recovery chips of beyond 30 days, and how many new leaders we develop.
In 2019 more than 1400 chips have been given out and over half are for longer than 30 days, and we have developed 15 new leaders to help carry this message of hope forward into 2020. These leaders become sponsors, lead meetings and do service work that propels others into sobriety and service as well. As we enter into a new year, our goals include developing Across The Bridge Academy, which further increases addiction awareness, addiction recovery and stresses developing leaders and mentors. Our development as an impactful organization within our community rests on our unique message of recovery and our increase in manpower to spread that message.
We are also proud of the fact that in early December of 2019 we had our first wedding within our building, led by recovering people, and both bride and groom have come through addiction recovery and the bride has become a leader in a sober living facility. It was beautiful, and another reminder that the process of recovery does work if we allow it to work. Learning how to manage a normal life is part of that process and understanding that a sober outcome can bring on the joy of a fantastic life.
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Please remember that we need Men's and Women's clothing and shoes as we have many in need and we distribute this clothing free.