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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Diane Madrigal News

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OPINION: Preparing for Impact

By Diane Madrigal | Jan 28, 2025

We arrived with grateful hearts, honored that Women’s Recovery Services (WRS) had been named one of the top three local non-profits selected for the 9th Annual Impact 100 Redwood Circle Grant Award Ceremony.

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OPINION: Children’s Building Blocks program – A Beacon of hope

By Diane Madrigal | Jul 15, 2024

Women’s Recovery Services (WRS) is a beacon of hope, offering a state-licensed alcohol and drug treatment program for women who are pregnant, parenting, and seeking to heal their families. Since 1975, our integrated approach has helped hundreds of mothers and children break the cycle of addiction and foster care. Women enter the WRS program to address addiction issues, and their children participate in a program tailored just for them.

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OPINION: The Climb of Life: Three women’s journey from addiction to triumph

By Diane Madrigal | Mar 22, 2024

Two peaks framed against the vast canvas of clear skies- while nature spread its wings effortlessly around the towers.

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Dear WRS: small things with great love

By Diane Madrigal | Jun 2, 2023

Women’s Recovery Services has been working on creating a new client handbook.

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January: Weathering the storms... a time of reflection, resolution and promise

By Diane Madrigal | Feb 2, 2023

The chore of taking “Christmas down" and packed becomes one of the focuses of the month.

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A letter to friends of Women’s Recovery Services

By Diane Madrigal | Nov 22, 2022

We are entering the holiday season. In these uncertain times, it is hard to imagine how to approach the season without acknowledging the issues that impact our nation, our community and our loved ones.

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Reclamation of a Life Worth Living

By Diane Madrigal | Oct 24, 2022

After this morning’s group, the women scrambled to move the desks and set the space for the (Sobriety) Stone Ceremony.

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Women’s Recovery Services – A walk with purpose

By Diane Madrigal | Sep 23, 2022

On Sept. 18, 18 women went on a walk. It was early in the afternoon before it had a chance to get hot. They were asked to bring their journals, and a water bottle. The women were instructed to envision the road ahead as their path to recovery and how it mirrored what they may be struggling with in their lives.