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Bulverde Community Park
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Bulverde Spring Branch Activity Center
Canyon High School
Canyon Lake Animal Shelter Society
Canyon Lake Forest Clubhouse
Canyon Lake High School
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Dam Red Barn
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Dot's Spots
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Goofy's Bar and Grill
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Gruene Harley Davidson
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Gruene Outpost River Lodge
Guadalupe Brewing Company
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Hill Country Lavender Farm
Jay & Diane's Horseshoe Grill
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New Braunfels Conservation Society
New Braunfels Convention Center
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Rio Guadalupe Resort & RV Park
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Spring Creek Gardens
Squadron 179, Sons of the American Legion
St Thomas Catholic Church
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
St. Francis by the Lake Church
Startz Memorial VFW Post 8800
Summit Vacation & RV Resort
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
The Club at Rebecca Creek
The Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country
The Silos at Freiheit
The Villa
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710 Activity Center
American Legion Walton F Hoffman Memorial Post 179
Anhalt Dance Hall
Avey Hall of the Chapel
Brookshire Brothers
Brookshire Brothers Canyon Lake
Bubba's Backyard
Buggy Barn Museum
Bulverde Community Center
Bulverde Community Park
Bulverde Party House
Bulverde Spring Branch Activity Center
Canyon High School
Canyon Lake Animal Shelter Society
Canyon Lake Forest Clubhouse
Canyon Lake High School
Canyon Park
Canyon Springs Golf Club
Canyon Springs Resort
Columbus Club Hall
Comal County Extension Office
Comal County Fair
Comal County Fairgrounds
CRRC of Canyon Lake
CRRC Recreation Center
Cypress Bend Park
Dam Red Barn
Devil's Backbone Tavern
Dot's Spots
Downtown Social
Electric Wizard Tattoo
Fischer Dance Hall
Goofy's Bar and Grill
Gruene Hall
Gruene Harley Davidson
Gruene Local Marketplatz
Gruene Outpost River Lodge
Guadalupe Brewing Company
Guadalupe River State Park
Hill Country Lavender Farm
Jay & Diane's Horseshoe Grill
Lakeside Golf Club
Main Plaza
Mammen Family Public Library
Maven's Inn & Grill
McKenna Event Center
Meyer Ranch
Mystic Shores Community Center
New Braunfels Conservation Society
New Braunfels Convention Center
New Braunfels Public Library
Northeast Bible Church
Old Blanco County Courthouse
Old Village in Downtown Bulverde
Paul Davis Park
Real Ale Brewing Company
Rio Guadalupe Resort
Rio Guadalupe Resort & RV Park
Rockin R River Rides
Spring Creek Gardens
Squadron 179, Sons of the American Legion
St Thomas Catholic Church
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
St. Francis by the Lake Church
Startz Memorial VFW Post 8800
Summit Vacation & RV Resort
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
The Club at Rebecca Creek
The Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country
The Silos at Freiheit
The Villa
Tom's Creek Bridge
TPWD's Guadalupe River State Park
Tye Preston Memorial Library
VFW - Post 8573
Village West Clubhouse
Vintage Oaks
Water Oriented Recreation District of Comal County
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Canyon Lake teenagers who are abusing drugs or alcohol and their family members are invited to free support meetings from 7-8 p.m. every Thursday at the Community Resource and Recreation
Event Details
Canyon Lake teenagers who are abusing drugs or alcohol and their family members are invited to free support meetings from 7-8 p.m. every Thursday at the Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC), 1917 FM 2673.
The sessions are facilitated by licensed chemical dependency counselors (LCDCs) with Braunfels-based RecoveryWerks! The nonprofit helps teens and young adults learn how to socialize and have a good time without using drugs and alcohol.
Counselors also will be available from 5-7 p.m. Thursdays for individual counseling and recreational activities. They believe positive peer relationships are necessary for recovery.
On a walk this summer, a counselor overheard one teenager ask another, “Can you believe that we’re having this much fun sober?”
Everything’s Confidential
Everything shared at Thursday sessions between counselors and teens, in group sessions, and during guided recreational activities is considered confidential and will not be disclosed without personal consent. No proof of income is required.
“RecoveryWerks! Alternative Peer Group Program (APG) is a family-centered, professionally staffed recovery model that is proven successful in treating substance use disorders in adolescents and in helping families find healing,” said Recovery Werks! Program Director Joanne Daxon.
CRRC Surveys Identified Need
CRRC Executive Director Sean Bailey said he added RecoveryWerks! to the nonprofit’s roster of services after several surveys from the community identified substance abuse prevention-and-treatment as top issues within the Canyon Lake community.
“I had the privilege of meeting the phenomenal folks from RecoveryWerks! and we thought this was a perfect fit,” he said. “The CRRC’s mission is to help the community but we can’t do it alone, so we love to invite strong partners like RecoveryWerks! to help us, and Canyon Lake out. They have a strong program in New Braunfels and we all felt this would be a great asset to Canyon Lake.”
RecoveryWerks! this week received a grant from New Braunfels’ prestigious McKenna Foundation. This operational funding, along with a recent donation from the Canyon Lake Rotary Club, helped fund its counseling outreach at the CRRC. The amount of the grant was not publicly disclosed.
‘Seedbed of Drug and Alcohol Abuse’
The nonprofit believes peer relationships are the “seedbed of drug and alcohol use,” and stresses the importance of positive peer relationships for youth recovery.
“Young clients learn how to socialize and have fun without relying on drugs and alcohol while opening their minds to new experiences and better ways to combat anxiety, depression, loneliness, and the desire to numb their feelings,” Daxon said.
Drugs are everywhere, said Debi Dickensheets, executive director of RecoveryWerks!
“If you want to find them, you’ll find them,” she said.
While it is difficult to find reliable statistics about how many teenagers are addicted to drugs and alcohol, Dickensheets said experts believe 10% of all people will develop a substance abuse disorder.
Helping Parents Help Their Teens
RecoveryWerks! also guides parents through the complicated process of working with addicted children.
“Parents face extremely difficult decisions when trying to help their teenagers or loved ones with a substance abuse disorder and can unintentionally stand in the way of their loved one’s recovery by ‘softening’ the blow and shielding them from the consequences of their actions, for example, by bailing them out of jail,” Dickensheets said.
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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-05:00)
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CRRC of Canyon Lake
1917 FM 2673