Women’s Recovery Services (WRS) soon could be providing treatment to women addicts with COVID-19 who are pregnant or are already parents thanks to the assistance of the Sonoma County Department of Health Services.
It was only a plot of dirt in the lot between the Women’s Recovery Services (WRS) treatment center and its newly renovated kitchen, but when WRS board member Maria Estournes looked at the muddy land, she saw the potential for a garden where women residents could meditate, talk, plan their lives or simply enjoy the outdoors.
After a driving under the influence (DUI) offense, April Davis was imprisoned. While in jail it was recommended that she seek treatment for alcoholism..
Prior to joining Women’s Recovery Services (WRS) as its board president, Judy Ryder worked in the early 1970s as the director of a child abuse prevention council in Monterey County, just as the nation began awakening to issues of child abuse and neglect.
Although the Women's Recovery Services (WRS) addiction rehabilitation center is located in Wine Country, its board raises money without offering the wine and cheese fare considered standard in their locale.
The Women's Recovery Services (WRS) residential treatment is coping as best as it can to fires in Santa Rosa where some 8,200 people have been evacuated so far, according to media reports, but COVID-19 is adding an unexpected layer of challenges.