Friday, August 12, 2011

The Maui Christian Recovery Resource Center Invitation to those in Need

This notice or something similar will be posted at our office in the Salvation Army building in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii:

Maui Christian Recovery Resource Center
in Partnership with
County of Maui Salvation Army
Meeting the Afflicted or Affected by Appointment

Office Inside

Tuesday: 10:00 A.M. through 5:00 P.M.

Thursday: 10:00 A.M. through 5:00 P.M., and 7:30 P.M. through 9:30 P.M.

Saturday: 2:00 P.M. through 5:00 P.M.

Make an Appointment by Phoning Dick B. at (808) 874-4876 or
Ken B. at (808) 276-4945; or by Emailing dickb@dickb.com

What We Do

Assess: Meet with, and assess the need and willingness to seek help of, those suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction, and/or uncontrolled at-risk behavior. And learn as much about them as possible. OR meet with and assess the need and willingness to seek help of those affected by an alcoholic, addict, or otherwise at-risk person and willingness to recognize behavior that worsens their pain, and often encourages continued excesses by alcoholics or addicts causing it.
Inform the afflicted and affected about: (1) Behavior, common denial, and mindset of those needing help. (2) Varied needs of the suffering, including: (a) court dates, legal defense, jail, prison, probation, parole, and re-entry; (b) loss of reputation; (c) loss of financial resources and housing; (d) homelessness and lack of shelter; (e) medical problems; (f) loss of job, family, support from loved ones; (g) lack of education, vocational training, and job skills; (h) depression and mental problems (i) lack of finances; (j) legal problems stemming from criminal charges, domestic difficulties, custody matters, (l) indebtedness or bankruptcy; (m) loneliness, despair, despondency, fear, anger, dishonesty, and selfishness; (n) lack of incentive and purpose; (o) lack of information about Veterans assistance, family assistance, food, housing, clothing, and welfare; (p) regaining licenses, insurance, registration; (q) detox, treatment, counseling, sober living, wholesome recreation and companions; (r) filling the hours; (s) Twelve Step and anonymous programs; (t) God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, prayer, Quiet Time, Christian literature & devotionals, church, Christian recovery fellowships, and pastoral care; (u) intervention; (v) CityTeam, Alcoholics Victorious/Footprints, Teen Challenge, Overcomers Outreach, Alcoholics for Christ, Celebrate Recovery, Salvation Army ARCs, and YWAM. And (w) hospitalization.
Refer: We have Christian contacts in the U.S. and other countries to whom we can, on a non-professional basis, refer you for the kind of help they offer. They have or know about the resources you need. They really care about and want to help the afflicted and affected. And they know and stress the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played in the origins of the recovery movement and can play today.

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