The Blue Water Recovery and Outreach Center has spent the past eight years growing from a grassroots idea into one of the largest recovery community organizations in St. Clair County. What began as a small group of people with lived experience supporting one another has become a hub of meetings, peer coaching, outreach and community events that now serve hundreds each week.

Building a peer-led recovery center

BWROC opened in 2017 as a non-profit recovery community organization, or RCO, meant to fill a gap between treatment programs and long-term support. Executive Director Patrick Patterson joined shortly after the organization formed and helped shape it into a peer-led center that focuses on connection, navigation and lived experience rather than clinical services.

The Blue Water Re

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