Warmline Operator Job Opening
Join Rise Be is currently hiring a part-time Young Adult Warmline Operator. Are you an emerging adult with lived experience with mental health, addiction, or trauma? The Statewide Young Adult Warmline is a job readiness training program that lasts up to two years from the date of hire. This is an in-person position in Rocky…
Navigating Apartment Searching
I grew up living on the west side of Bridgeport, and I’ve lived in this city for my whole life. I’m 26 years old now, and I find myself wanting to travel to different places and explore new options for settling down. Something has always kept me in Bridgeport, though. Most of my family and…
Our New Normal. A Pandemic Story of Grief, Survival and Growth
What is normal? Is it a state of things that we have accepted and just continued our lives with? After the COVID pandemic, others and I have adapted what is now our new ‘normal’. Living through a world-wide pandemic has brought about forced change to people. A change to really look within themselves and to…
Exploring New Joys and Growing Up During COVID
After the challenges of dealing with COVID, many young adults are feeling like the things that used to bring them joy just don’t feel the same. It’s like when you find a new favorite ice cream flavor – it’s exciting, but you also miss the old one a bit. This is happening to many young…
A Blog Post About Young Adult Peer Support by ChatGPT
If you haven’t heard already.. AI’s are slowly but surely taking over the world! There’s no point in hiding or running away because they’re already here and they’re powerful! All jokes aside, AI’s are very intelligent and if used correctly, can support you in ways you never thought possible. For example, I thought it would…
JRB is Hiring!
We are currently hiring 3 part-time Young Adult Warmline Operators. The Statewide Young Adult Warmline serves as a job readiness-training program that extends for up to 2 years from date of hire. – Rate of pay is $15/hour – Up to 24 hours per week of regularly scheduled hours. – RSS Training Certification within the…
JRB is accepting workshop proposals for our 2023 Young Adult Leadership Summit!
Update: We are extending our submission deadline until 11/30/22! Ready to break out of the loneliness and isolation of the pandemic? In recovery, but looking for an absolute banger of a good time with a community of your peers? Looking to step up into a leadership role where you can share your unique insights from…
Walk Your Path
When someone is in recovery, there are a lot of things that come with that. Many times someone identifies with recovery because they wish to see a change in their lives and realize that how things have been happing are either no longer beneficial to their wellbeing or never has been. When the realization that…
I Hear Voices
I hear voices. Not the hum of a computer, not a creaky floorboard. I hear voices that command me to hurt myself. I have experienced what my doctor calls “auditory hallucinations” since I was a teenager, but they didn’t get commanding and vulgar until my mid-twenties. I never told my doctors that I was hearing…
Adulting, Chapter 3: Basic Distress Tolerance Skills
Everyone experiences overwhelming emotions sometimes. It’s not an experience unique to people who are neurodiverse or in recovery. We will all feel overwhelmed from the loss of a loved one at some point. And who goes through life without ever having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? It would blow my mind to…
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