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Donations support the employment and recovery program at Apricity Contract Packaging (ACP). ACP partners with companies to provide contract packaging and assembly services for manufacturers who need additional resources, capabilities, or workforce. Apricity provides those impacted by substance use disorders a full spectrum of care including treatment, employment and support services in a safe, progressive recovery community.
Krissa’s Second Chances Lead To Purpose In Life
“Before coming to Apricity’s Casa Clare residential treatment I was in inpatient treatment two times, prison treatment and outpatient treatments. Nothing seemed to stick, and I’ve had countless negative experiences with counselors.
Despite all this, I decided to give Apricity a try. I’m glad I did! The counselors were amazing. I could relate to them. They didn’t come off as thinking they were better than the patients they treated, like it was other places I tried getting help. I loved that some of the counselors had first-hand experience in addiction. They talk with and treat all clients like we are human beings, and the entire Apricity program gave me hope.
I am really grateful for the opportunity to have had treatment, then move through and work at Apricity’s Contract Packaging (ACP) job-training program. It is through ACP that I built my self-confidence and redeveloped a work ethic. I stayed working there for one year while living in Apricity’s Sober Living program, where I still live now and recently became the house manager for the new Ola sober living women’s house. It is through these recovery supportive programs that I not only received treatment but strengthened my recovery. It is here that I have been supported in reconnecting with family and repairing relationships I thought were lost. It is here that I learned coping and communication skills that really helps with life in the long run.
Apricity has taught me and showed me that recovery means a second chance at a life worth living. I am grateful for these many second chances to get where I’m today, because I feel like I have found a purpose in life. Apricity encouraged me to pursue my dreams, including someday going back to school, which I did! This fall I enrolled at Fox Valley Technical College to become a substance use counselor so that I can pay it forward. While going to school, I am now working part-time as a House Manager at Apricity’s Mooring House and Casa Clare residential treatment facilities, gaining hand-on experience working with clients and counselors. My hope in pursuit of this dream and my future was that I could come back to Apricity, so I could give back what I got. And, I am!”
-Krissa Brasure
Krissa Brasure is a former Apricity Residential Treatment client and Contract Packaging program participant. She is currently part of Apricity’s Sober Living program and is a house manager for the program. Krissa has been in recovery since August 2, 2022.
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