Women's Recovery Services
Recent News About Women's Recovery Services
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OPINION: Join WRS on March 15 to help Sonoma County women and families
On March 15, Women’s Recovery Services of Sonoma County (WRS) will celebrate a remarkable milestone—50 years of providing life-changing recovery services to women and their families in Sonoma County.
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OPINION: Weekend Discoveries Equine Program transforming women's recovery in Santa Rosa
Women’s Recovery Services (WRS), a nonprofit organization in Santa Rosa, has been providing a residential addiction treatment program for women for the past 50 years.
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OPINION: Preparing for Impact
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
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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Women's Recovery Services of Sonoma County raises $120,000 from annual fundraiser
The Women's Recovery Services of Sonoma County (WRS) held their annual Climb 2 Recovery fundraiser on March 16, ending the event with over $120,000 raised for their programs.
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Bee Focused owner participates in WRS Weekend Discoveries program
Joy Wesley, owner of Bee Focused, a beekeeping service company in Santa Rosa, volunteered to teach a group of women as part of Women’s Recovery Services’ (WRS) Weekend Discoveries program.
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Dear WRS: small things with great love
Women’s Recovery Services has been working on creating a new client handbook.
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Windhorse Full Circle Coaching welcomes Women's Recovery Services group for a weekend of equine-guided coaching, discovery
Windhorse Full Circle Coaching recently welcomed a group from Women's Recovery Services, a nonprofit founded in 1975 that helps families recover from a mother’s addiction, for a weekend retreat as part of its Weekend Discoveries program.
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Former addict brings hope that mothers can 'break the cycle' at Women's Recovery Services in Santa Rosa
Maria Cardenas said she believes things happen for a reason, and 15 years after getting sober, that everything in life has led to her calling as a case manager with Santa Rosa-based Women's Recovery Services.
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Recovered addict uses her 'journey' to become case manager at Women's Recovery Services
Stephanie Heil knows too well the toll addiction takes and how long the road can be to recovery. Now, she's using her own experience to help others in her new role as case manager at Women's Recovery Services.
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Volunteer statistician: 'Helping WRS apply for and receive grants based on my data analysis is very satisfying'
Women’s Recovery Services does not just mitigate the effects of addiction but creates long-term solutions.
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January: Weathering the storms... a time of reflection, resolution and promise
The chore of taking “Christmas down" and packed becomes one of the focuses of the month.
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Women's Recovery Services helped Gonzales break through cycle of addiction: 'welcomed with open arms'
Sara Gonzales is a graduate of Women’s Recovery Services, and after a successful 101 days at the facility getting clean from drugs, she has had her record expunged and become a case aide, after-care facilitator, alcohol and other drugs counsel (AOD) at WRS.
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A letter to friends of Women’s Recovery Services
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
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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A mother and son's journey through Women's Recovery Services: 'It was amazing'
Women caring for infants and young children are not turned away from addiction treatment at Women’s Recovery Services (WRS) because they don’t have to leave their children to get the help they need.
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'My life had crumbled around me': Mother overcomes addiction, credits Women’s Recovery Services for success
When Child Protective Services removed her youngest daughter from her care in August 2012, Meghan Lewis felt miserable.
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Martin on women's recovery nonprofit: 'I am extremely proud of the work that WRS does'
Women’s Recovery Services (WRS), located in Santa Rosa, California, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1975 that helps families recover from a mother’s addiction. The organization’s goal is to break the cycle of addiction for women, including by providing a safe, healthy residence that allows neglected children to remain with their mothers while they learn life skills necessary to become responsible community members.
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Women’s Recovery Services – A walk with purpose
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.
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'Purified in The Flame': Quiroz tells story of overcoming abuse, addiction, incarceration in new book
Elizabeth Quiroz was almost totally broken as the California woman was struggling with homelessness, an addiction, incarceration and human trafficking.