The Oasis Recovery Center of SW PA Posted by:Ken Sutton--Thursday, May 22, 2008

These are some friends of the Bridge to Hope. I thought you would be interested in what is going on and that you may want to volunteer.



"Our goal is to help people get into recovery and/or treatment (get through the red tape) so many people make one call and find out there are no beds and then they give up and go back to drinking/using"




Our Official Name is "The Oasis Recovery Center of SW PA"
We are now a 501c3 organization.

We have a temporary office space located @ 960 Penn Avenue, 1st Floor

(this is almost directly across from the old recovery center if you remember
where that was located)

Our goal is to help people get into recovery and/or treatment
(get through the red tape) so many people make one call and find out there
are no beds and then they give up and go back to drinking/using

Second goal is to provide a safe environment to help people when they get
out of treatment -- focusing on the early recovery process...

Most people overdose in the first two weeks after leaving treatment or jail,
so this is a critical time and its when most people relapse

Our first phase is to begin an Addiction Helpline

Our second phase to to begin to work on building task groups in the
community and

Our third phase is to find a location to house the post-treatment work
Our ideal setting would be along the river (serenity)

So if any of you have any ideas for location, old building somewhere.
We were looking at Lawrenceville and the Strip District.

So now that we have an office and phone lines in place, I'm inviting you
To come to the office on Sat. May 31st @ 10 am
960 Penn Avenue to talk about Answering the Addiction Helpline.

If you could volunteer 3 hours/week to help take calls, please let me know.

If you would like a copy of our new brochure, please send me your address
and I will forward one to you.

Also, if you would like to help but cannot attend on May 31st, let me know.

Also, please feel free to pass this to anyone who you think may be
interested in helping us to get the Addiction Helpline up and running.
We will provide training on how to answer the calls free of charge.

Thanks,

Karen
412 519 5772
karenplavan@gmail.com