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Summer Kick-Off BBQ

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Certified Peer Recovery Specialist Training (CPRS)

Virtual Via Zoom

Learn how to offer your lived experience to provide peer recovery support to individuals and family members touched by problematic substance use in your community. The CARES curriculum meets the mandatory 46 hours of training required for certification by the Addiction Professionals Certification Board of New Jersey.

$400
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CARES Recovery Corp

CARES Recovery Corps is a cutting-edge grassroots community-level approach aimed at improving people’s lives by delivering peer recovery support services directly to those most in need. When accepted into our CARES Recovery Corps Project, you will be trained, at no cost, in the nationally recognized Certified Peer Recovery Specialist curriculum; virtual classes begin 3/14/23 on Tuesdays and Thursdays for eight weeks.

FREE

Expressive Healing

CARES Rockaway 25 West Main Street, Rockaway

Get in touch with your creative side at our Expressive Healing Event. Join us in exploring the power that creativity and art have in expressing emotions while connecting with others in a safe and inclusive space.

BINGO Go Bragh

CARES Rockaway 25 West Main Street, Rockaway

Test your luck with a night of BINGO at CARES. Food fun, and prizes provided. Open to all members of the recovery community!

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Recovery Recognition Breakfast

CARES Rockaway 25 West Main Street, Rockaway

Join us for our monthly morning of education, support and celebration! Each month we welcome a new speaker, meet new friends, celebrate our success, and recognize our volunteers.

Virtual Narcan Training

Virtual Via Zoom

The Opioid Overdose Prevention Program provides individuals at-risk for overdose, their family members, friends, loved ones, and professionals with naloxone kits, education, and training on how to prevent, recognize and respond appropriately to an opioid overdose.

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Rock Climbing

The Gravity Vault 333 Preston Avenue, Voorhees

Join us at The Gravity Vault for free indoor rock climbing sessions! Sessions will be Every 3rd Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:30 PM except December due to the holiday.
You don't need to have climbing experience, the only requirement to attend is 48 hours of continuous sobriety. REGISTER ASAP! Each session is limited to the first 14 people who register through The Phoenix: www.thephoenix.org (Registration will open 2 weeks prior to the event.)

Painting With Peers

Burlington County Library 5 Pioneer Blvd, Westampton

Connect with peers over a canvas. We’re hosting a free painting class, taught by a professional instructor, for all experience levels. Join us to meet new people and get creative. Painting materials are provided!

Taco Tuesday

CARES Rockaway 25 West Main Street, Rockaway

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo early with a Taco Tuesday Night! Join us for food & fun with peers.

Virtual Narcan Training

Virtual Via Zoom

The Opioid Overdose Prevention Program provides individuals at-risk for overdose, their family members, friends, loved ones, and professionals with naloxone kits, education, and training on how to prevent, recognize and respond appropriately to an opioid overdose.

Strolling Through Recovery

Historic Smithville Park 803 Smithville Rd, Eastampton Township

Reconnect with nature and your recovery. Come join the CARES community stroll through the park trails, enjoy refreshments, and afterward engage in our All Recovery Meeting with nature.

Bowling with Burlington CARES

Laurel Lanes 2825 NJ-73, Maple Shade

Join CARES for some fun in Recovery with bowling and food. Recovery is hard enough, come see the fun, competitive, and social side of the CARES community!

FREE
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