Troubled Waters Inc

The Veterans' Bridge Back Initiative offers all services of the Bridge Back Initiative, such as substance use disorder recovery support (including Recovery Coaching and Recovery Meetings), assistance with identifying and applying to our CORI-friendly employer partners, and transportation to and from work for up to one year, and adds additional services such as paid housing support, veteran-specific intensive outpatient programs (IOPs), and vocational training.

The Bridge Club of Greater Lowell proudly offers recovery coaching to people in recovery from, or who are attempting to recover from, recovery from drugs and/or alcohol. A recovery coach supports a client in pursuing their own goals. While a person classified as a counselor or a therapist might diagnose addictive behavior and prescribe treatment, this is not the coach’s focus. Recovery coaches practice active listening through various methods. Coaches encourage self care, and point clients toward helpful strategies which can include mindfulness, and replacing drinking with new activities or rituals, like going to the gym.

Coaches also support people in taking daily steps toward attainable goals. If someone is abstinent, for example, their coach can support them in rebuilding their lives and relationships. If someone is still drinking, coaches can help set realistic reduction goals, and help the client stay accountable to themselves.

The Bridge Club of Greater Lowell offers Recovery Coach training once quarterly using the curriculum of Connecticut Center for Addiction Recovery's (CCAR's) Recovery Coach Academy. The CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© is an innovative new approach to healing people's lives that is unlike any other training. Utilizing a dynamic approach to learning that blends both process and content, the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience that has been referred to as "pure recovery genius". If you're ready to learn, be challenged, and reap valuable rewards for life, the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© is a must for anyone in the recovery field.

The lessons taught in the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© expand way beyond the role of a recovery coach, as many graduates leave feeling a greater sense of self, solidifying their position as allies in the every changing recovery community.