Recovery At Archway: Recent Episodes
Kevin Phillips
Hosted by Kevin Phillips, the Executive Director at Archway Recovery Services. Recovery from addiction is a journey most people will experience in their lifetime. You may not struggle with an addiction process, someone in your world does. Take the power of addiction away and begin the healing process today.
After spending 29 years in prison for first-degree murder, Joevone Elster shares his story of redemption and service. Joevone is an AOD Counselor at Archway Recovery Services working in the He reentry program with men coming out of prison.
AOD Counselor Erik Fleming is committed to helping others embrace the all too real challenges of men coming out of prison. When confronted with the inevitable conflict of men trying to find their way home out of a lifetime of trauma, he stands fasts and stands firm. "We hug it out," he says.
Waylon Sigmon overcame the challenge of growing up in a family where his mother, his father, and his grandfather all struggled with the trauma of addiction and abuse. How do you break the cycle? How do you make sure that you do not perpetuate the disorder and pass on the suffering to yet another generation of victims?
Steven Cowley is our Director of Residential Services. Our commitment is to our clients. Sometimes that commitment means a difficult choice that the client may not understand at the moment. In our Transitional Living Program, our priority is to keep people safe and to encourage their healing. Holding to this priority means that sometimes hard decisions have to be made that others simply may not understand.
Claire Phillips is a Charge Nurse in a busy Emergency Department in a hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She sees all types and conditions of patients every day. Not infrequently she and her team are called on to address the needs of someone struggling with what the medical community calls, "Substance Use Disorder". Most people are used to thinking of it as addiction. Sadly, some people who come into the ER, can't get the help they need.