A collaborative effort geared toward successful recovery from addiction encourages participants to learn or rediscover their passion.

Donna Jenereski, director of the county Drug and Alcohol Program, said Slippery Rock University reached out to her about six months ago to help distribute a survey asking those in recovery, addiction recovery professionals and others in the field what services are needed and what types of services they felt would be helpful to those in recovery.

When the survey results were observed, Jenereski had a conversation with those at SRU’s Institute for Nonprofit Leadership, where a “recovery life initiatives” program is ongoing.

The survey revealed that those in early recovery had no venue in which they could learn or rediscover their interests or activities about which they are passionate.

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