River Stone Recovery Centre

01/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone! 🩵🎉💙

12/25/2024

Happy Holidays from the River Stone family to yours! 🩵💙

11/29/2024

Did you know River Stone offers wraparound supports for participants? These supports include:

👉 Patient-involved goal setting and support for accessing resources, including housing and food.

👉 Psychological and social supports focused on strengthening healthy coping strategies and improving mood and emotional regulation.

👉 Life skills supports such as money management, employment readiness, capacity building, and food preparation.

🩵 Learn more about River Stone at riverstone.recoverynb.ca

11/27/2024

How is River Stone Recovery Centre Harm-Reductionist?

👉 River Stone Recovery Centre meets participants where they are to create individualized plans to help them achieve their goals, whatever they may be. We do not insist on abstinence or even reduced use of opioids and stimulants, though many of our participants have set such goals. River Stone offers medical support to help participants safely avoid withdrawal sickness and psychosocial support to address the conditions that led to and feed their substance use disorder and to help them make desired changes in their lives.

🩵 Learn more at riverstone.recoverynb.ca

11/26/2024

River Stone offers Stimulant Replacement Therapy to treat patients who are addicted to stimulants such as co***ne, amphetamines ("speed"), and crystal m**hamphetamine. Several medications can help reduce cravings for illicit stimulants.

👉 Problematic stimulant use is not always a sign of a stimulant use disorder that needs to be treated with SRT. People living with opioid use disorder and without housing often turn to stimulants, particularly crystal m**hamphetamine, to cope with opioid withdrawal and the stresses of living outside.

👉 Many of our OAT and iOAT patients who have used crystal m**h heavily tell us that being treated for their opioid use disorder eliminates or greatly reduces their use of crystal m**h. When they feel more stable and aren't grappling with opioid withdrawal symptoms, they have little desire for the drug.

Learn more about medical treatments at River Stone: riverstone.recoverynb.ca

11/20/2024

Help us raise $20,000 on Giving Tuesday, December 3! 🎉

This year, your donation goes further thanks to the incredible generosity of Fredericton Toyota and the J.T. Clark Family Foundation, who are matching donations up to $10,000! 💪✨ Head to our website on December 3 to make your gift count double! ❤️

Want to pledge in advance? Send us an email to learn more about early giving options - ed@frederictoncommunitykitchens.com.

11/20/2024

Such a devastating loss for our community. Julia was a force of compassion and love, creating space for everyone to feel welcomed. Condolences to her family and loved ones, and all the rest of us as we grieve.

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The family of Julia Elisabeth Stewart would like to announce her passing at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Saturday, November 16, 2024 surrounded by family. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 5, 1971. (For those that know Julia, she usually celebrated t...

11/18/2024

👉 For the 15% of people with severe opioid use disorder who have not found oral OAT medications effective and who inject unregulated, illicit, and increasingly toxic drugs, we provide injectable opioid agonist therapy (iOAT). People take their medication by injection 3 times a day and then take a long-acting oral medication overnight to help stay out of withdrawal sickness.

👉 This helps people avoid death from toxic drugs and become medically stable enough to have space to see what other things they want to recover, their physical and mental health, their loved ones, and their sense of self.

👉 iOAT medication is prescribed and only taken in the clinic, which helps people stop from having to engage in illegal activity to access dangerous, unregulated street drugs. No illegally accessed drugs are taken in our medical clinic, differing us from a safe injection site - however, these are still needed as a gateway into support and care.

🩵 Learn more about iOAT at riverstone.recoverynb.ca

11/16/2024

Donations to the Fredericton Community Kitchens will go down with the postal strike! Read this post to see how to help.

Did you know that our Holiday Mail-Out usually raises 24% of our annual income? 🫣😓

Like many charities, our holiday mail-out will not be hitting your mailboxes like it usually would around this time of year! But the good news is there are still so many ways to give 🤗🎄

🎁Donate Online through our website🎁https://www.frederictoncommunitykitchens.com/holiday-campaign

🎄Donate Online through Canada Helps🎄https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/fredericton-community-kitchen/

🎁Donate by e-transfer to 🎁
info@frederictoncommunitykitchens.com

🎄Donate over the phone by calling🎄
506-457-1788

🎁Make a pledge and send your cheque later🎁
by emailing info@frederictoncommunitykitchens.com

Or drop your cash/cheque donation to 65 Brunswick Street 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 🎄🎄🎄

Help us continue to feed Fredericton’s hungry this holiday season by supporting our Holiday Campaign!

11/16/2024

We are very excited to bring back the reverse advent calendar after a very successful past couple of years!

Each day of December, add the item listed to a box. On Christmas Eve, donate the box to support those in need in your community! This is a great activity to get kids involved in giving back over the holiday season.

Our drop off locations are:
🎄Grace House: 275 Brunswick Street
🎄St John House: 65 Brunswick Street

If boxes are complete before Christmas Eve, they are welcome to be dropped off anytime!

We look forward to seeing all the boxes come in & thank you for supporting The Shelters this holiday season!