Local mental health, addictions and education professionals will provide free online learning opportunities for community as part of Hope Academy Speaker Series. Hope Academy, a tuition-free, public charter high school for teens in recovery from substance use disorders, will host three free online learning opportunities as part of its upcoming Speaker Series events. The goal...Read More
Hope Academy’s Rachel Beehler and Rachelle Gardner were guests on Recovery Talks: A Fairbanks Podcast to discuss the school’s new alternative peer group, Guiding Paths to Success (GPS). It’s a peer-based program that promotes positive support for young people and their families struggling with substance use disorder and self-destructive behaviors. Hope Academy is hosting an open...Read More
When your son or daughter attends treatment for a substance use disorder, among other things, they’ll learn many techniques to maintain abstinence, and to make more pro-healthy choices. While individual therapy and group counseling are well-known techniques used to address substance use, it can be just as important that treatment includes life skills training. Often in the...Read More
By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News SEATTLE — It’s the last class period of the day. The students lean back on couches and take turns describing the most important day of their lives: the day they became sober. For Marques Martinez, that date was Nov. 15, 2016. Until then, he had used OxyContin, Xanax and...Read More