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Mission
The mission of Recovery Learning Communities (RLCs) is to offer services for people in recovery from mental health through the utilization of peer support (support from people with lived experience), advocacy, referral, education, career coaching and job readiness in a trauma-sensitive manner. The Metro Boston RLC aims to provide these services through the entire Metro Boston area, currently operating out of four locations: The Boston Resource Center, Peer Education Recovery Center, the Cambridge/Somerville Recovery Learning Community and the North Suffolk Transitional Employment Group.
Summary of major foci of activity, leadership and affiliation:
The Metro Boston RLC is supported by a management team consisting of: Howard Trachtman, Anne Whitman and Chuck Weinstein. Each resource connection center is led by a strong Peer leader backed by a major mental health provider: the Boston Resource Center by Paul Styczko and Joanne Roberts and Boston Medical Center, the PERC by Sarah Selkovitz and Bay Cove, and the CSRLC by Janel Tan and Vinfen.
Boston Resource Center: Extensive library of pamphlets, books, audiovisual materials
and more. Vibrant drop-in commumity. Computer/internet access and instruction. Various groups: Support group open to all, women's groups, dual recovery group,
creative writing group. Development of the use of warmlines and peers in Urgent Care Center (for psychiatric evaluation only
with no emergency room involvement). Entreprenurial activities and a gift shop to
sell sundries and peer created artwork as a vocational training environment.
PERC: specializes and putting peers back to work and features
evening and weekend hours.
Vinfen's Cambridge/Somerville Recovery Learning Center's (CSRLC)
mission is to promote, support, and empower people to go back to
school or work. It is a peer-to-peer recovery and support program that
instills and fosters hope and resilience for all members.
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