Personal Empowerment Recovery Coalition

01/11/2025

Official Statement
January 3rd, 2025

01/11/2025

Police officials in Fordyce said an officer has resigned after an “unjustified use of force” during a 2023 incident when a teen was hit by an officer while handcuffed.

04/23/2021

04/21/2021

All are invited to Praying in Color and the 12 Steps.

04/10/2021

03/31/2021

Thank you to Emma for sharing this poem she has written about Intentional Peer Support.

03/22/2021

See that 3rd bullet???

Tomorrow, advocates from ASAM, the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine, the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT), and the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine are meeting virtually with lawmakers to urge them to:

➡️ Strengthen the addiction treatment workforce
➡️ Standardize the delivery of addiction education
➡️ Improve Medicaid coverage for eligible individuals who are incarcerated

You can support their efforts by emailing your lawmakers now: https://www.asam.org/advocacy/advocacy-in-action/take-action

03/17/2021

AHP’s Darby Penney co-authored an article in the February 2021 edition of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal on evaluating Intentional Peer Support (IPS), an approach used in multiple settings globally. The article details development of an instrument to measure service users’ experience of IPS in relation to IPS Core Competencies. Find the abstract and get the full article here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/prj0000463 https://www.ahpnet.com/Meet-our-Experts/Senior-Program-Staff/Darby-Penney