Our certified peer support workers meet individuals in the field and have personal experience with specific challenges or conditions. We provide empathetic assistance, empowerment, emotional support, education, role modeling, advocacy, hope, motivation, and skill-building to others facing similar experiences. This approach is based on the understanding that peers, with their firsthand knowledge, can uniquely relate to and support individuals in their recovery or management of conditions, reducing stigma, fostering a sense of community, and complementing professional services in various fields such as mental health, addiction recovery, and chronic illness management.
New Mexico Recovery Coalition, NMRC, is a compassionate startup nonprofit organization and Southwest New Mexico’s exclusive non-government boots-on-ground provider driving harm reduction services, rapid HIV/HCV/syphilis testing, basic street medicine, limited mobile crisis interventions, and other key mental health advocacy initiatives into our rural and frontier communities.
NMRC promotes using an anti-stigma, community-based, Mutual Aid approach to Syringe Access Services, Overdose Prevention, and Referrals to resources in our community.
NMRC is staffed by Certified Peer Support Workers, Community Health Workers, and other Comprehensive Community Support Workers. Everyone on staff has Lived Experience with using drugs, loving someone who uses drugs, or navigating the systems and resources needed when one is actively using or in recovery.
NMRC promotes health equity through safer drug use, overdose prevention, and helping our participants and community members to take an active role in creation of policies, procedures, and activities within our organization and others throughout the community.
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