Hope Recovery Center focuses on helping veterans develop skills to feel better, be successful and have meaningful relationships. Since 2020, 83 percent of its participants successfully completed the program.
The Hope Recovery Center is an outpatient treatment program designed to assist veterans grappling with severe mental illness or PTSD. By providing a therapeutic learning setting, veterans can acquire hope, support and develop new skills.
“What we do is veteran-centric and goal driven, so we allow the veteran to dictate for themselves the life they want to live,” said Dr. Crystall Matthews-Wells, psychology program manager. “We help articulate those goals and break them down into objectives. And that is our starting point.”
Army Reserve veteran Trenia Pevia has actively participated in the program for a year. The program’s transparency keeps her engaged.
“The coaches and other program participants share their shortcomings with us, which allowed me to open up about my struggles to them,” she said. “I saw a light in my coach that I wanted for myself.”
Pevia’s coach is Bianca Johnson.
“We want the veterans to understand that there is life beyond the mental illness or experiences that they suffer from,” she said.
Hope Recovery Center services include social activities, hobby classes and life skills that focus on independent living and financial wellness. There are also peer led groups, individual psychotherapy vocational services and family education.
“I asked God for a place where I felt like I belonged, and I feel like I belong here. I am broken and I see people that have been where I am at hat are no longer in that spot. So, I understand that there is more for me than just survival. I want to thrive and here I’ve found the help I’ve needed to help me do that,” Pevia said.
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