On February 28, 2017 York East Rotarians welcomed speaker Wendy Shoster to their weekly breakfast meeting at Heritage Hills.  Shoster is the community liaison for Safe Haven, founded in 1933  in York to help men and women with addictions.  She explained that York County is one of the two largest recovery communities on the East Coast  Addiction is a chronic, progressive disease that doesn’t get better on its own.  It is however, treatable but everyone recovers differently.  It’s not just a matter of medical detox.  Their new 28 bed in-patient facility, recently opened in  Hellam Township.  It provides  11 detox  beds and the remaining residents participate in one-on-one therapies and  relapse prevention programs, experiential treatment, and transitional living.

 

Photo:  left,  Wendy Shoster

              right, Tom Kelly, Esq, President-elect York East Rotary