Board of Directors and Regional Representatives
Paula Harrington
Treasurer
Paula Harrington, Certified Peer Support Specialist/Trainer, Recovery Coach and Trainer currently is Special Projects Coordinator for Oxford House, Inc., Board Chair of the Freedom House Recovery Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Vice Chair of the Orange County Local Re-Entry Council. Ms. Harrington is a woman in long-term recovery since 1998. As a result of her drug usage starting in college, her prior incarceration, and because she didn’t have her children with her when she embraced recovery, these were important areas she wanted to facilitate and support for those seeking recovery that had these issues. She opened the first women’s and children’s Oxford House in North Carolina and the first Collegiate Oxford Houses (male and female) in the country. She works with those coming out of incarceration who have substance use disorders. She shares a unique partnership with the Carolina Recovery Program at UNC-Chapel Hill which coordinates community re-enforcements surrounding the students with resources that build recovery capital. She has worked tirelessly over two decades as an addiction educator.