Turning Pages to Empower Recovery

September is National Recovery Month, and team members at Carrier Clinic’s Blake Recovery Center have come together to organize an inspirational fundraiser to support the purchase of resource books for patients on the road to recovery from substance use disorders.

For more than 40 years, Blake Recovery Center - recognized among the best addiction treatment centers in New Jersey - has been a leader in providing addiction treatment to individuals in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and the northeast region. Blake Recovery Center is focused on providing exceptional patient care and ensuring patients have access to all that is needed to aid them in their recovery, from important therapies and counseling to recovery resources, like books.

“A frequent request we receive from our patients are recovery materials and books that they can use while in treatment and potentially take with them at discharge,” says Michele Scasserra, LCSW, LCADC, CCS, director of Substance Use Counseling Services at Blake Recovery Center. “We have a hard time keeping enough of these important books in stock to successfully make sure that all of our patients receive what they ask for. We believe in multiple pathways to recovery at Blake and this fundraiser will give us the opportunity to do that. Every dollar raised, no matter the size, will make an impact on our patients’ healing.”

Funds will be used to purchase multiple books for Carrier Clinic, including the full size publication of Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, the full size publication of NA Basic Text, the pocket edition of Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Living Sober, Just for Today, A Woman’s Way Through The Twelve Steps and more. The team at Blake Recovery Center agrees that these books will continue to serve as excellent resources for patients throughout the entire Carrier Clinic campus.

We know that the Blake Recovery Center team will have great success in raising funds to purchase these much-needed materials for our patients. To learn more about this fundraiser, or to make a gift in support of National Recovery Month at Carrier Clinic, please contact Michael Loch, director of Development at Carrier Clinic, at michael.loch@hmhn.org.