List of needs discussed at ARC Volunteers meeting 3/27/19

Following are minutes from the meetings. If you would like to get involved in this grass-roots efforts, please fill out the form in the TAKE ACTION button on top right corner of the page .

Marketing/Social Media

  • To create a powerful marketing camping to make public aware of the service we provide.

  • Need to fine tune mission statement for clear and succinct message.  

Volunteers

  • Volunteers require training/background checks.

  • Create manual with protocols for volunteers.

  • Utilize an app to manage volunteer hours.

  • Establish a 24-hour hotline for callers.

  • Identify safe places (i.e, coffee houses) to meet with clients

New Sub Committees:

It was determined that two additional sub-committees are required to complete the mix of disciplines.

Development (new sub-committee)

  1. Connect with the local political leaders.

  2. Engage legal professionals to guide with legal issues involved.

  3. Create Community Relations (police dept., houses of worship, schools, hospitals, psychologists)

Technology (new sub-committee)

  • Back-End website management

Scope of work defined at Arc Volunteers meeting on 2/19/19

Following are minutes from the meetings. If you would like to get involved in this grass-roots efforts, please fill out the form in the TAKE ACTION button on top right corner of the page .

Vision and Mission

ARC proposes to provide a “warm embrace” to the friend and/or family of addicts and individuals dealing with mental health issues.  

Our focus is NOT the addict but the family member(s) and/or friend(s) overwhelmed with worry and who need help navigating all the available resources to better guide help their loved ones.

We are NOT an Emergency or clinical center. Our goal is to guide people BEFORE the emergency. The website will list resources for individuals seeking emergency treatment.

ARC will offer warm and empathetic guidance to the caller. The caller will be connected with and be “embraced” by a real person, not another hotline operator offering cold data.  Our core goal is to provide guidance, follow-up and check-up. Our warm embrace may also include food/care packages or movie/sports tickets, as appropriate.

Sub-Committees

Three sub-committees were created:

Volunteers

Coordinate and create procedures for our “1st responders” and those who will interact with the callers offering the "warm embrace."

Marketing/Social Media

Create effective marketing tools and messaging.

Product

Roadmap of resources.

If you were unable to attend but would like to participate in one or more of these sub-committees please let me know.  Your voice and expertise is vitally important to make this program a success. We will require Certified Recovery Specialists (CRS), at the launch of the program.  If you or someone you know is a CRS please let them know about our initiative.

Bucks County Courier Times: Opioid forum offers avenues to escape addiction

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick and Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub were among the guest speakers at the town hall meeting and resource fair hosted by Lubavitch of Bucks County in Newtown Borough.

A Newtown rabbi is asking the community to help build an ark in an attempt to save the lives of those drowning in addiction, as opioids continue to flood the country.

Speaking Thursday at a town hall meeting and resource fair at Lubavitch of Bucks County in Newtown Borough, Rabbi Yehuda Shemtov announced the launch of ARC House, which stands for Addiction Resource Center.

Described as a grassroots effort to guide those struggling with addiction toward those who can help them achieve long-term sobriety, he asked everyone in the room to take out their cellphones and log on to arcsupport.org to volunteer.

Read the complete story at the Courier Times.