{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Thumbcoast.tv | ebw.tv - Serving Port Huron and the Thumbcoast","provider_url":"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv","title":"Blue Water Recovery & Outreach Center is Leaving An Impact on the Community","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0FDQH8f7gq\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/blue-water-recovery-outreach-center\/\">Blue Water Recovery &#038; Outreach Center is Leaving An Impact on the Community<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/blue-water-recovery-outreach-center\/embed\/#?secret=0FDQH8f7gq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Blue Water Recovery &#038; Outreach Center is Leaving An Impact on the Community&#8221; &#8212; Thumbcoast.tv | ebw.tv - Serving Port Huron and the Thumbcoast\" data-secret=\"0FDQH8f7gq\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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That group consisted of the recovery members of Blue Water Recovery & Outreach Center. \u00a0 \u00a0Patrick Patterson, manager of public relations and funding for BWROC, said the peer-driven organization is structured around volunteer efforts to give back to the community and show recovering addicts do care. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe offer a face to those in recovery,\u201d Patterson said. \u00a0 \u00a0When recovering addicts lack resources to help with their addictions they tend to have more interaction with law enforcement, he said, and become the \u201cherd of cattle\u201d shuffling through treatment centers. Members of BWROC are individuals looking to change their lives. \u00a0 \u00a0Community engagement opportunities such as the roofing project get those individuals off the street, socializing and breaking patterns of isolating themselves, which makes it easier to slip into bad habits. This is something Patterson himself is familiar with as a recovering addict. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI joined BWROC because I couldn\u2019t find any other solutions,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cI was the herd of cattle going to treatment center to treatment center, and when I found Blue Water Recovery and Outreach Center it gave me the spark and life that I needed to feel again. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBeing able to give back and do it with others has been life altering,\u201d he added. \u00a0 \u00a0Roofing is a pilot project for BWROC and its members, but they\u2019re not doing it alone. The organization partnered with One Way Remodeling. Together they searched for a person who needed a roof but couldn\u2019t afford one on their own.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe pride ourselves in the golden rule: treating other people like we would want to be treated,\u201d said Mike Grennan of One Way Remodeling. \u201cNot just your home, but your family.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0With the prevalence of addiction affecting the construction community, Grennan and his crew work to show addicts there are better ways to live and show the public the other side of addiction. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe try to reach out in the community and break the stigma of addiction and persons with addiction,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of times I think that people have this idea that drug addicts or alcoholics are just bad people. Maybe they have this vision in their mind of some junkie in an alley with a needle hanging out his arm or wino walking down the street with a brown paper bag around that bottle of booze. There\u2019s another side to that.\u201d \u00a0 To learn more about the Blue Water Recovery & Outreach Center visit bwroc.org or call 810-689-4858."}