We Support Recovery – Making sober Connections
WE SUPPORT RECOVERY – MAKING SOBER CONNECTIONS
We Support Recovery’s mission is simply, Connection. To connect peers in recovery with peer support, providing free one-on-one recovery coaching, and partnering with local county agencies, churches, and recovery organizations to host monthly sober events.
Through hosting monthly sober events and running a Recovery Text List to share local recovery events and program flyers, they connect with over 200 people each month.
We Support Recovery is seeking businesses and churches to become program partners to sponsor or host one recurring sober event per year. For example, Polk County Behavioral Health continues to sponsor the annual Trollhaugen Tubing and Canoe/Kayak events. Joy Lutheran Church, Centuria, has hosted the SOBER bowl party for three years. West Denmark Lutheran Church, Luck, hosted the Mothers In Recovery Day for two years, and are planning a 2025 event.
One of the organization’s biggest accomplishments is organizing the first OkSOBERfest in 2024 – a fun, alcohol and drug free regional celebration of recovery. Stacy Hilde, founder of We Support Recovery relays this story: “My daughter invited me to cat yoga in Roseville, MN and started talking with two ladies who also happened to work in the substance use field. They asked me if I heard about OkSOBERfest – I smiled, and shared that I am the founder and organizer!”
Through a partnership with Marshfield Clinic AmeriCorps Recovery Corps, AmeriCorps member. Sean Matthews, provides FREE recovery coaching to males in NW Wisconsin. Dubbed “The Narcan Man,” Sean distributes Narcan to local vape shops and food shelves to reduce opioid overdose fatalities.
We Support Recovery has developed the Community Reintegration Program with a recovery coach that meets with incarcerated individuals at Polk County jail to prepare a safe and sober exit plan. Individuals are then connected to resources such as housing (shelters or sober living), Polk County economic support, food shelves, workforce development resources, and transportation vouchers.
Among other successes, a former recovery client became a dedicated volunteer and continues to help organize or run several sober events. She put in the hard work of recovery and is now going to school to become a substance use counselor and is working part time in a treatment center.
In 2025, We Support Recovery looks to their partners and funding agencies to help provide an additional recovery coach. Additionally, they hope to build a transportation program to provide rides to recovery support meetings. Their long-term goals include funding for a full-time executive director and to initiate a Recovery Friendly Workplaces program and build the recovery coaching program to include partnerships with medical facilities and surrounding county jails.
To receive flyers for upcoming recovery events and programs, join the Recovery Text List by texting the word CONNECT to 715-641-4626. For more information, go to www.WeSupportRecovery.org