what is aliveRVA?
AliveRVA is a Virginia-based addiction recovery support warmline, offering confidential resources for individuals, their loved ones, and community members. This peer-run service, staffed by trained Peer Recovery Specialists with lived experience, provides information on substance use treatment, recovery supports, healthcare, food, and housing. Operating daily from 8 AM to Midnight, it is funded by the SAMHSA State Opioid Response (SOR) grant and is a collaboration between RBHA, SAARA, and MHAV.
what does aliveRVA do?
AliveRVA provides recommendations and connections to a variety of services for those seeking recovery. This includes access to treatment facilities, recovery housing, shelters, food banks, community services boards, and clothing closets. These services allow individuals to receive the support they need on their road to recovery.
what is a peer recovery Specialist?
A Peer Recovery Specialist is someone who has personal, first-hand experience with substance abuse and recovery from addiction. Their unique experience allows them to provide insight, support, and guidance to others seeking to achieve long-term recovery from addiction through recommendations and connections to services that best meet the individual need. Having walked the path themselves, Peer Recovery Specialists are able to identify with those suffering from addiction and guide them as they navigate their own path. Peer Recovery Specialists offer mentorship, understanding, and a guiding hand to individuals seeking a new way of life.
who answers when i call aliveRVA?
AliveRVA’s Peer Recovery Specialists are a diverse and compassionate group, each with their own unique story with substance use that allows them to understand and connect with those suffering from addiction. Our peers give their time as a way to give back and pass on the gift of recovery that has been given to them. Their primary aim is to be the guiding light and assist others on their path to freedom from addiction. Our Peer Recovery Specialists understand where our callers have been and are able to recognize what an individual might need based on their own unique story.
What Is A Warmline?
A Warmline is different from an emergency or crisis line (or “hotline”), and provides emotional support, resources, and a listening ear. Warmlines are answered by peers—people who have walked in the caller’s shoes and understand the challenges they’re facing. AliveRVA’s Warmline is confidential and staffed by peers in recovery who can help you find local help for substance use treatment, housing, food, healthcare, and more. If you need support, resources, or someone to talk to, call AliveRVA’s Warmline at 1(833)4PEERVA — but if you are in an emergent crisis, dial 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or 911 for emergency services.