Call For Partnership:
The PAARI Recovery Corps is a cohort of full-time volunteers spread across the country to serve alongside police to address the opioid epidemic and expand access to treatment and recovery. It was started in 2017 through AmeriCorps, a federal, national community service organization. The majority of our Recovery Corps members are embedded in police departments to help build, strengthen, and sustain police-led Deflection programs to reduce overdose deaths and help more people with substance use disorders access treatment and recovery. Tasks of a Program Development VISTA can include building, strengthening and sustaining police-led Deflection programs, reducing overdose deaths and helping people with substance use disorders access treatment and recovery, developing project plans for increasing awareness and participation, community assessments, expanding and strengthening partnerships with service providers, developing financial resources, developing program marketing materials, developing policies and procedures, technology use, developing data collection systems and processes, volunteer recruitment and management systems.Due to the Recovery Corps program, members have established a wide variety of partnerships.
Since Recovery Corps started in 2019:
– Served 23,252 individuals directly and indirectly.
– Recruited 1,142 volunteers who have been able to provide hundreds of hours of work to their department/agency.
– Secured $2,235,327 through members’ fundraising, grant writing skills and in-kind donations.
Please fill out this form if you are interested in hosting a full-time PAARI National Recovery Corps Program Development service member to assist your department. Departments that currently host PAARI Recovery Corps members are encouraged to apply for another year as a host site, if desired.
Police departments may apply as a group if your program model lends itself to sharing one or more members.
Please refer to this year’s host site orientation to learn more about the program:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wWr21H0xVPkEMXruZzx49WPZ5OqX0rBU7M9YdU086ls/edit?usp=sharing.
Contact Vanessa Kennedy at vanessa@paariusa.org or call (508) 296-0769 with any questions.
PAARI Recovery Corps Members
What is the Recovery Corps Program?
The Recovery Corps is a cohort of full-time PAARI volunteers spread across the country to serve alongside police to address the opioid epidemic and expand access to treatment and recovery. It was started in 2017 through AmeriCorps, a federal, national community service organization. The majority of our Recovery Corps members are embedded in police departments to help build, strengthen, and sustain police-led programs to reduce overdose deaths and help more people with substance use disorders access treatment and recovery.
In 2024, PAARI was awarded a cohort of 19 PAARI National Recovery Corps members to serve alongside police to address the opioid epidemic and expand access to treatment and recovery.
Since Recovery Corps started in 2019:
– Served 23,252 individuals directly and indirectly.
– Recruited 1,142 volunteers who have been able to provide hundreds of hours of work to their department/agency.
– Secured $2,235,327 through members’ fundraising, grant writing skills and in-kind donations.
As part of the team, PAARI was able to send roughly 70% of our members to the Recovery Coach Academy for free. This 30-hour training enhances the knowledge and skills of those who will be supporting people on their recovery journeys. This course delivers CCAR’s 30-hour Recovery Coach Academy for a law enforcement audience, and participants received a Certificate of Completion for CCAR’s Recovery Coach Academy as well as a PAARI Certificate of Completion.
100% of our host sites have stated that because of PAARI’s Recovery Corps and their VISTA member, their organization has increased its efficiency, effectiveness, and program reach. A host site supervisor mentioned, “[the] PAARI Recovery Corps program has created so much room for partnership and collaboration development within [their] department, the community partners, and the surrounding communities,” and that, “without PAARI’s Recovery Corps program, the department would not be able to continue the level of life saving services that [they] have been able to continue amid a pandemic.”
PAARI National Recovery Corps – Newburyport, MA VISTA
PAARI Families Against Narcotics VISTA (Renamed to Face Addiction Now) – Clinton Township, MI
PAARI Sanford Recovery Corps VISTA – Sanford, ME
PAARI Recovery Corps- Plymouth County Outreach VISTA – Plymouth, MA
PAARI Oswego Police Department VISTA – Oswego, NY
Police Outreach Region 4 – Must be located in AK, HI, WA, OR, CA, NV, AZ, ID, UT, MT, WY, CO, or NM
Our core activities include:
- Building, strengthening, and sustaining police-led programs
- Reducing overdose deaths
- Helping people with substance use disorders access treatment leading to recovery
- Developing project plans for increasing awareness and participation
- Community assessments
- Expanding and strengthening partnerships with service providers
- Developing financial resources
- Developing program marketing materials
- Developing policies and procedures
- Technology use
- Developing data collection systems and processes
- Volunteer recruitment and management systems
