New Roots Glynn

08/21/2025

Check out this exciting event coming up August 31st!

🚨 MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🚨
Our CommUNITY Outreach event is BACK and BIGGER than ever—but at a NEW LOCATION!

📍 Orange Square Community Park
📅 Saturday, August 31, 2025
⏰ 10AM – 2PM

We’re bringing the love, the giveaways, the games, and the good vibes to Orange Park!!!

🎉 FREE Family Fun
🎁 Grocery Giveaway
👕 Clothing & Book Giveaway
💃🏾 Music, Dancing & Games
🧠 Health Screenings
🩺 Mobile Medical Unit
🎈 Bounce House & More!

Tell a friend, bring a neighbor, and come ready to be BLESSED 🙌🏾

08/20/2025

🌈 We’re thrilled to share the news — something vibrant is coming to Brunswick!

New Roots Glynn is honored to support the inaugural Discover Norwich Street Multicultural Festival, happening Saturday, September 20 from 12–5PM in Historic Downtown Brunswick.

This community-led celebration promises music, movement, global flavors, and creative connection — Brunswick’s boldest block party yet! From the community art competition to the Family Zone, it’s a powerful reminder of what’s possible when we come together. 💛

🎨 Local artists, vendors, and performers — applications are open!
📍Norwich Street (between Gloucester & J)
📧 Details via @‌Discover.Norwich or discovernorwichst@gmail.com

Let’s dance, eat, create, and celebrate the cultural heartbeat of Brunswick. We can’t wait to see you there!

08/19/2025

🌟 Partnership in Action: Supporting Our Veterans

Golden Isles Veterans Village is more than housing—it’s a healing-centered community where veterans experiencing homelessness can access health services, education, and job training to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose.

Recently, our Executive Director Heather Woodard met with Case Manager Sylvia Cashdollar to collaborate on expanding support at the Village. Thanks to this partnership, New Roots Glynn will soon offer one-on-one check-ins and group meetings onsite, creating even more opportunities for connection, recovery, and growth.

We’re honored to walk alongside those who’ve served—and to help build systems that serve them in return. 💙

08/18/2025

If you are living with or supporting someone with a substance use disorder OR a mental health challenge - or you don't feel you qualify for either and just want someone to talk to. WE ARE HERE 💜 Please share this so our community knows. Simply stop by during the hours listed below.
Monday 10-3
Tuesday 10-6
Wednesday 10-6
Thursday 10-6
Friday 10-3
1507 Reynolds Street/912.217.0573

08/16/2025

🌟 Program Announcement: The S.E.T. Initiative 🌟

Sustain. Expand. Transport.

We’re excited to share a new recovery-centered program designed to meet people where they are—and help them move forward with dignity, support, and real-world tools.

We’ve applied for funding through the Opioid Abatement Settlement to launch the S.E.T. Initiative, and we’re actively seeking additional support to make it sustainable.

Here’s what S.E.T. offers:
🚗 Sustain – Entry fees for treatment covered. A dedicated vehicle to ensure immediate access to care, peer support, and recovery services.
📚 Expand – In partnership with The Star Foundation, we’ll offer sessions in financial literacy, conflict management, and job readiness—empowering individuals to grow beyond sobriety.
🛻 Transport – A reliable vehicle to help participants get to work, court dates, and probation check-ins. Because mobility shouldn’t be a barrier to healing.

💬 Recovery is built in the everyday moments—getting to an appointment, showing up for work, learning a new skill. S.E.T. is designed to make those moments possible.
This initiative is about more than support—it’s about transformation. It’s about creating a culture of hope, inclusion, and practical care for those in early recovery.

If you’d like to learn more, partner with us, or support this work, we’d love to hear from you. 💙

📩 Message us or visit our website to get involved.

08/15/2025

We had a GREAT day. The marketing and branding workshop Missy facilitates is so, so good! If you are a non-profit and want me to pass along what I’ve learned, get in touch!

Or if you’re interested in having Missy facilitate a workshop for your agency, reach out! Missy helps individuals and teams unlock their potential and achieve their goals for good. She has 30+ years of experience in strategic planning, facilitation, coaching, social marketing, and market research, working with clients across various sectors and industries. I’ve done her workshop twice but I could literally do it every month for forever

Check it: goodpowr.com

08/14/2025

August 31st is Overdose Awareness Day. We would like to honor loved ones we’ve lost. If you’d like to share a picture and memory, please send it to me ~ newrootsglynn@gmail.com

08/13/2025

08/13/2025

🌿 Peer Support Isn’t Just Powerful—It’s Proven

Recovery thrives in community, and the numbers speak louder than words. Peer support isn’t just anecdotal—it’s evidence-based, heart-driven, and undeniably effective.

📊 Here’s what the data shows:
- 81% feel more understood when supported by peers
- 85% report greater hope through shared connection
- 20% are more likely to stay engaged in treatment
- 25% experience fewer hospital readmissions
- 30% see lower relapse rates in peer-led programs
- 91% feel more motivated to pursue their recovery
- 40% say peer support helps reduce stigma in their communities

These aren’t just percentages—they're people, progress, and proof that recovery is relational.

At New Roots Glynn, we see peer support as the heartbeat of healing. It's the conversation that sparks courage. The presence that breaks isolation. The lived experience that says, “You’re not alone, and you’re not broken.”

Recovery isn’t a solo act—it’s a collective rhythm. Let’s lift each other up. Tag someone who’s helped you heal. 🌱



📚 Sources:
- Mental Health America – Peer Support Research Overview
- Gitnux Report (2025) – Peer Support Statistics
- Psychiatric Services (2023) – Systematic Review on Peer Support
- Faces & Voices of Recovery – Measuring Outcomes of Peer Support

08/12/2025

🌀 Last week’s All Recovery meeting centered on a powerful question: Where are we in our own recovery?

We gathered to pause, reflect, and recognize the journeys we’ve each taken. It’s not about how long we’ve been on this path—it’s about the growth, the resilience, and the choice to keep showing up every day.

No comparisons. No rush. Just progress.

Wherever you are in your recovery, know this: you’re not behind, you’re not alone—you’re right where you’re meant to be. 💙

08/12/2025

Watch this brilliant new video on the 2025 Georgia Recovers Bus Tour

Click here to see the locations: http://gc4recovery.org/garecoversbustour2025/

https://youtu.be/dNCK6VO3J1E