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ARHE Spotlight: Louise Irizarry
ARHE Spotlight: Louise Irizarry Next in our Spotlight series, we are honored to feature Louise Irizarry, our business manager. Louise tells us about her experiences with ARHE back in the early days, how she has seen it evolve, and what she is most proud of. How did...
Webinar: How To Be a Recovery Ally
Next in ARHE's webinar series, we're featuring Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) Recovery Ally Program. These programs are spreading across the country in an attempt to shift elements of campus culture and raise funding for CRPs. This training can be adapted...
Student Spotlight: Chava Evans
Next in our Student Spotlight series we are honored to feature Chava Evans. Chava tells us about his experiences in a collegiate recovery program and how it ultimately impacted his recovery. Tell us about why you chose a CRP. Chava: Before I found Rams in Recovery, I...
The State of the Association: An Outlook on Collegiate Recovery
In May of 2014, I ventured out to Minneapolis for the 6th National Collegiate Recovery Conference at Augsburg College (now Augsburg University). Until learning about this conference, I had no idea about the true reach of collegiate recovery. I didn't know about Brown,...
ARHE Collegiate Recovery Spotlight Series: The Ohio State University
The Collegiate Recovery Spotlight Series features an in-depth look at various collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) across the country. This webinar featured the program at Ohio State University, which is described as follows: "The Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) is...
Inaugural National Collegiate Recovery Day 2020
The inaugural National Collegiate Recovery Day will take place on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Collegiate Recovery Day will be an annual celebration to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of the Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE), which was...
Guest Post: Jarmichael Harris — Why I’m An Ally
We’re honored to feature a guest blog from Jarmichael Harris, MS, LCAS. He currently serves as East Carolina University’s collegiate recovery community coordinator and an alcohol and other drug staff counselor for the center for counseling and student development....
CRP Spotlight: University of Michigan
Collegiate Recovery Programs, or CRPs, have the potential to positively influence a student's recovery and the outcome of their studies. Each program varies, however, in terms of its conception of recovery, the types of recovery support available, and activities...
Introducing Harm Reduction in Collegiate Recovery
Angie Bryan, a recovery program manager at the University of California, Santa Barbara, saw that opportunities to help people — and potentially reverse overdoses — were being overshadowed by debates around recovery goals. Ultimately, she found, everyone is trying to...