Kurtis was good at convincing people to believe fabrications designed to support his substance use, but it wasn’t until he started believing in his own recovery and connecting with staff at Keystone Hall that his own story turned around.
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Chris began his path towards sobriety at Harbor Care Health & Wellness Center and is a successful graduate from Keystone Hall. Today he’s a house manager at a recovery house and is an active leader in the Nashua recovery community.
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Harbor Care recently hosted a roundtable discussion on substance use and recovery with US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra and community leaders, including Congresswoman Annie Kuster and Nashua’s Mayor Jim Donchess.
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Hi, I’m Michael. I was born and raised in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Today I live and work in Nashua. I’ve got a circle of close friends, a promising career, my own car, my own place, and a great credit score. Life for me wasn’t always this way, however. Substance abuse runs in my family…or it did until it ran into me. My advice to anyone who wants to get clean? You have to want it, and believe that you deserve better. No one deserves to live like that, absolutely nobody.
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Shaun is 20 years removed from military service, yet still feels he is honoring that commitment. His connection with the individuals he works with goes beyond their shared veteran status. “We share the common experiences of knowing what it’s like to sleep outside in the cold, to struggle to get food, our addiction, to just survive. You’re not alone here, is what I can tell them.”
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As our clients know, we don’t hand a person in distress a blind referral to another service. We won’t ask them to share their life and their story again and again, to fill out form after form, and wait and wait for care.
We promise: once a person enters any of the many programs within Harbor Care, they are automatically “in the system.” After 40 years of doing this kind of work, we know that more often than not, if a person doesn’t have a safe, secure place to stay, none of their other struggles will resolve, because that basic human need – safe shelter – remains unmet.
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The Harbor Homes Recovery Corps program began in December 2018 through an AmeriCorps grant aimed at aiding people in recovery from -- or struggling with -- substance use disorder. Since that time, the Recovery Corps was able to recruit a total of 36 members who served between 6-month and 1-year terms at 16 host sites that serve people in recovery throughout the state of New Hampshire.
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“What I’ve learned from all this is that ‘just putting down the drink and drugs’ is not the solution. Learning a whole new way of life is...”
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