Happy New Year!

We enjoyed spending time with our friends in recovery at our first annual New Year’s Eve Event at the KCRCO! The picture on this blogpost is all of the amazing goals we shared with each other and we will collectively achieve in 2022.

The overriding goal of the KCRCO is to help our community members in recovery achieve their goals in all ways possible when it comes to being integral members of the community.

In 2022 we will continue adding more classes and activities to support this goal. We begin offering Recovery Yoga, Vocational Support, Reiki/Chakra Balancing classes in January. These are in addition to our Self-Esteem, Youth Night, Kids Connect, and Financial Wellness classes we began in 2021. We are excited for all of these and what we know will be more to come!

Additionally, will be hiring our KCRCO Recovery Support Specialist with a start date of February 1. This person will work in the space and help us to support anyone who walks in our door who needs resources in the community. With our recent grant funding we will also transition our volunteer Program Manager into a paid position. This is exciting because we will now be able to support paid positions for community members in recovery in our own community. We have plans to do more of this in 2022.

Our building space is actively evolving as we speak and improvements are being made to add a kitchenette, office space, and work stations for anyone in recovery to come in and use as they need. Our very first rentals begin this month with local groups using the space to support their individual programs that support people in recovery. We will continue our Open Mic Nights the first Friday of each month as part of Downtown’s First Friday Art Walk.

We are partnering with CWU’s Wellness Center and will give Recovery Ally Trainings to downtown businesses where they will learn about positive ways to support community members in recovery. Additionally, our volunteers and staff will received similar trainings to ensure one of our core missions of ensuring we educate and lower stigma in the entire field of substance use disorders.

Our friends at the Kittitas County Health Network are supporting the beginning of our Recovery Yoga program and we are certain we will continue to collaborate with them and other entities to ensure we have strong relationships with our community partners.

We are already meeting with other stakeholders in our region who know what we are doing at the KCRCO and want the same for their area. Meetings have taken place with entities from Yakima and Douglas Counties. We are meeting with friends from Okanogan county who love what we are doing and want the same for their community.

We are excited for the New Year and all that will happen at the KCRCO!