Know Your Rights & Responsibilities (provided by WA State Attorney General and Human Rights Commission)
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) delineated four major dimensions that support a life in recovery:
- Health: overcoming or managing one’s disease(s) or symptoms—for example, abstaining from the use of alcohol, illicit drugs, and non-prescribed medications if one has an addiction problem—and, for everyone in recovery, making informed, healthy choices that support physical and emotional well-being.
- Home: having a stable and safe place to live.
- Purpose: conducting meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteerism, family caretaking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income, and resources to participate in society.
- Community: having relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope.
Hope, the belief that these challenges and conditions can be overcome, is the foundation of recovery. A person’s recovery is built on his or her strengths, talents, coping abilities, resources, and inherent values. It is holistic, addresses the whole person and their community, and is supported by peers, friends, and family members.
The process of recovery is highly personal and occurs via many pathways. It may include clinical treatment, medications, faith-based approaches, peer support, family support, self-care, and other approaches. Recovery is characterized by continual growth and improvement in one’s health and wellness that may involve setbacks. Because setbacks are a natural part of life, resilience becomes a key component of recovery.
To search for local recovery support services, visit WA Information Network 211
Community Resource Guide
Lending a hand to help the Homeless in our Community by Benton-Franklin Counties Department of Human Services.
Oxford House
Self-help for sobriety without relapse. Self-run, self-supported recovery houses.
Housing Resources
Housing resources in Tri-Cities, WA
Tri-Cities Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Tri-Cities Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous is a non-profit fellowship of people who suffer from the disease of addiction. We meet on a regular basis to help each other stay clean and share our experience, strength, and hope.
Cougs 4 Recovery
To support WSU students in recovery or who are contemplating. To reduce stigma of alcoholism & addiction, create a fun, sober environment, and more.