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Becoming a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) at Orenda In 2024, I was hired to work at The Orenda Center of Wellness as a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS). I am a person in recovery who has decided to commit to a career pathway that includes helping other people in recovery. Being a Peer is […]
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The Unseen Demographic In the midst of a national opioid crisis, the battle against “the stigma” related to addiction continues. One often forgotten population; women. Society tends to view addiction and substance use as something that affects primarily adult men. While drug education in schools and to the general public has greatly increased many still believe
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What makes mental health support truly effective? An Orenda therapist shares their reflections on our integrated model for addressing co-occurring diagnoses. Read more to understand our unique approach.
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I grew up in the age of social media becoming “a thing”. I’m a millennial, and can remember what my MySpace profile looked like after I first made it and the exact moment in my English class in high school that my friend helped me create my Facebook. At this time, little was known in terms of research on social media, but since then researchers have studied the effects social media has on a developing mind. “A 2023 Common Sense Media study indicated that 43% of children between the ages of 8 and 12, and up to 95% of teens, have their own smartphone, with usage ranging from a few minutes to 16 hours per day. They reported that teens receive an average of 237 notifications per day (with some as high as 4500 a day), and they engage with about 25% of the notifications received” (Constant Companion: A Week in the Life of a Young Person’s Smartphone Use). Shocking, right?
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