RECOVERY INNOVATIONS FREISE HOPE HOUSE!

March 2015
recovery Innovations Freise Hope House
Messages of Hope
RECOVERY INNOVATIONS FREISE HOPE HOUSE!
Volume 4
Issue 2
Ron Cordy has been with Recovery Innovations Freise Hope house since its
beginning, Ron started out his career with the Freise Hope house as a peer
recovery coach in 2011 and embraced the recovery model with full force.
As a peer recovery coach Ron supported guests with providing hope,
encouragement, support, self determination, and connection to the
community. He continues to demonstrate passion for our recovery model and
acts as an advocate for the needs and rights of guests served. Ron was able to
assess guests needs, strengths and barriers to assist the guests in planning and
achieving their goals and becoming more self-sufficient.
Ron has grown and advanced
during his time with Freise
Hope House. In January of
2015 Ron began a new chapter
in his career. Ron is the new
Recovery Educator for the
Freise Hope House.
As a Recovery Educator Ron
is responsible for planning,
developing, organizing and
maintaining activities within
Program. This means Ron has
the opportunity to design and develop the training material and educational outings
that deliver a recovery and learning environment to all our guests.
Ron also schedules, coordinates and provides various training related services to
support and maximize all guests learning goals and outcomes. In his new role as an
educator Ron builds and maintains professional relationships inside and outside the
organization to support, promote and deliver all educational objectives.
All of us staff here at the Hope house would like to congratulate Ron for his promotion
in becoming our recovery Educator!!
We here at Recovery Innovations Freise Hope House would like to give a huge thank you to all of the
community support that we have received over the years, so thank you to Bethany Services, Bakersfield
Homeless Center, Consumer Family Learning Center (CFLC), Crestwood Behavioral Health, Alliance
Against Family Violence, Mercy Hospital Art & Spirituality Center, Mary K. Shell/Kern Mental Health,
Beale Library, Starplex Cinema, Regency Lanes, Dewar’s Candy, Bakersfield Condors, California Living
Museum (CALM), Bakersfield Museum of Art.
Recovery Pathways:
Freise Hope House focuses on
one “Recovery pathways” each
week.
During each house meeting, our
Peer Recovery Coaches ask each
Freise Hope House guest “How
they can apply this pathway toward their own recovery?”.
Recovery Environment
It is a community where each
person is valued.
It Allows us to share the load.
Sharing our recovery with others
creates an environment of understanding and support.
Choice
We make the choice to learn
about our options and to pursue
them.
No one can know us as well as
we know ourselves.
Recovery
Innovations Freise
Hope House
Class of the Month:
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Who, being
loved, is poor?~
Oscar Wilde
Recovery Pathways
FUN FACTS
Continued:
Empowerment
Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
99% of people
It simply means to hold onto
your own power and encourage
others to hold onto theirs.
We speak up for our needs and
choices.
Spirituality
It is a component of recovery
that can help smooth the path to
reconnecting with meaning and
purpose in life.
Spirituality comes in many
forms.
We each decided what works
best for us.
Hope
When we have hope, the sky the
limit. We can see the endless
possibilities that await us and we
know that whatever happens, we
will continue to recover.
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Bakersfield, CA 93304
Tel: 661-326-9700
Fax: 661-326-9709
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Messages of Hope
Cooking for Wellness with Chef Connie
Clam Chowder Recipe
Oldest chowder recipes were mostly water-based fish soups, sometimes flavored with wine, and
featured some sort of vegetables such as onions, potatoes and carrots. The fish usually varied.
Many of the recipes included some sort of bread product such as cracker or crouton to add bulk.
Chowder versions with milk and cream grew out of regions where dairy was in abundance.
Tomato based chowders became popular in warmer regions.
New England Clam Chowder Recipe
3 8 oz bottles of clam juice
1 pound russet potatoes, peeled and diced
3 Tbsp of butter
2 cups onions, chopped
1 ¼ cups celery, chopped w/ leaves
½ cup of parsley, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 bay leaf
¼ cup flour
6 6 ½ oz cans chopped clams, drained w/ juice reserved
1 ¼ cup heavy cream
Salt, pepper & hot sauce to taste
Bring bottled clam juice and potatoes to boil in heavy large saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat
to medium-low; cover and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium heat. Add onions, celery, parsley, garlic and bay leaf
and sauté until vegetables soften, about 6 minutes. Stir in flour and cook 2 minutes (do not allow
flour to brown). Gradually whisk in reserved juices from clams. Add potato mixture, clams,&
cream. Simmer chowder 5 minutes to blend flavors, stirring frequently. Season to taste with salt,
pepper & hot sauce
History of Clam Chowder
The word "chowder" comes from the French word “Chaudière,” which
means caldron, referring to the container in which French sailors threw
their catch of the day to make their stew. This custom was carried to
Canada, and then later to New England in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.
Chowder became a popular dish in New England, especially among the
sailors.
By the end of the century, each region of New England became known for
its version of chowder: with cream in one region, with lobster in another, with
potatoes in other regions.
But by far, the most popular clam chowder version was the version with
clams and butter in a creamy white soup, which is very similar to today’s version of “Clam Chowder.”