Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative
Volusia Recovery Alliance: Building a Stronger Community with Recovery Friendly Workplaces
At Volusia Recovery Alliance, we are dedicated to helping individuals in recovery rebuild their lives and find meaningful employment. Our Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative supports businesses in creating healthier, more inclusive environments for their employees. By joining us, your business demonstrates its commitment to the well-being of its team and its role as a valued community partner.
Why Become a Recovery Friendly Workplace?
A Recovery Friendly Workplace fosters an environment where all employees can thrive. By implementing evidence-based policies and programs, businesses not only support employees in recovery but also gain a more motivated, productive, and healthier workforce.
Benefits for Participating Businesses:
- Customized Training: Receive tailored training to build and sustain a Recovery Friendly Workplace culture.
- Expert Guidance: Partner with a Recovery Advisor to address Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and create strategies that fit your specific needs.
- Comprehensive Support: Access a network of prevention, treatment, and recovery resources for your employees and their families.
Achieving a Recovery Friendly Workplace Can Lead To:
- Increased productivity and employee satisfaction
- Reduced absenteeism and turnover
- Enhanced workplace morale and communication
- Stronger connections with the community
- Improved customer loyalty
- A healthier, more supportive workplace culture
Steps to Becoming a Recovery Friendly Workplace:
- Empower Your Team: Provide employees with resources to support health, recovery, and well-being for themselves and their families.
- Educate Leaders: Ensure supervisors receive training on your alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) policies annually.
- Ongoing Training: Offer annual education on substance misuse, behavioral health, and addiction to both supervisors and employees.
- Complete the Checklist: Work with a Recovery Advisor to submit the Recovery Friendly Workplace checklist and application.
By joining Volusia Recovery Alliance’s Recovery Friendly Workplace program, your business takes a bold step toward fostering a compassionate and thriving workforce. Together, we can build a stronger community where recovery is supported, and opportunities flourish.
JOIN US IN BECOMING A RECOVERY FRIENDLY WORKPLACE
Karen Chrapek, RRT, CRPS
Executive Director
Volusia Recovery Alliance, Inc.
Missy O'Brien, CFAA-HRS, RPS
Project Coordinator H.E.A.L-VCOA
Volusia Recovery Alliance, Inc.
Barbara Ann Heegan, MBA
President & CEO
Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce
Benefits for participating workplaces include:
Trainings on how to create and support a Recovery Friendly Workplace culture for all employees
Partnership with a Recovery Friendly Advisor to meet customized business needs related to Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Connection to an array of prevention, treatment, and recovery support resources for employees and their families
Outcomes for participating workplaces may include:
Increased productivity
Healthier employees
Less absenteeism/turnover
Greater employee satisfaction
More community connection
Increased customer loyalty
A more supportive culture
Increased morale
Improved communication
Provide employees with information and resources to promote health, well-being and recovery for themselves and their family members
Ensure supervisors receive education on existing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug policies (ATOD) upon hiring and on an annual basis thereafter.
Ensure supervisors and employees receive annual training and education on substance misuse, behavioral health and addiction.
Complete and submit the Recovery Friendly Workplace checklist and application with assistance from your Recovery Friendly Advisor.
For more information on how to become a Recovery Friendly Workplace please contact:
Karen Chrapek, RRT, CRPS, Executive Director of Volusia Recovery Alliance, Inc.
386-846-6061 or kchrapek@volusiarecoveryalliance.org
Missy O’Brien, CFAA-HRS, RPS, Project Coordinator H.E.A.L-VCOA of Volusia Recovery Alliance, Inc.
Barbara Ann Heegan, MBA, President & CEO of Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce
386-761-1601 or bheegan@pschamber.com
Employers and business owners play a vital role in a person’s recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). When people are gainfully employed, they are given a sense of structure, community, and purpose – all things that are necessary to a person’s recovery. A job also provides a person with a stable income and access to health benefits, which are necessary for a person to sustain their recovery. We have employers looking for employees locally every day to fill their open positions. Wellness and recovery are holistic, and through a Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative, employers and business owners have an opportunity to innovatively address substance misuse and recovery in the workplace and make a measurable impact in the lives of workers here locally in the communities our Chamber serves.
