RPSV's Virtual Offerings

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RPSV’s Virtual Offerings

RPSV offers three free virtual support options for you. We encourage you to take advantage of our programs as often as needed. We are here for you!

We provide:

1) Warm Line phone and one-on-one support (via Zoom)

2) 9 Virtual Support Groups

3) Customized Support Sessions for Businesses and Community Groups

See below for more information.

1) RPSV’s Warm Line

RPSV’s Warm Line provides support to those in need during this period of additional stress in people’s lives. Whether you or someone you know is facing difficulties, in need of emotional support, or need access to resources, RPSV’s Warm Line staff is here to assist.

Call (703) 817-6124
Monday to Thursday from 4:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Exciting News!

*RPSV Warm Line is now offering One-on-One Zoom Chats on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 6-8 p.m.!

For those who prefer it, you can now meet “face-to-face” with a trained, compassionate, and non-judgmental Peer Recovery Specialist to discuss any challenges you may be facing or to combat loneliness. It’s just like calling the Warm Line using your phone, but now you can interact using Zoom.

To book a virtual one-on-one session via Zoom with a Warm Line specialist, please use the Schedule An Appointment button below or visit here.

YouTube Video: Warm Line, a recovery-focused program of RPSV

2) RPSV’s 9 Weekly Online Support Groups

RPSV offers free virtual support groups via ZOOM throughout the week.

On Monday and Wednesday, we offer sessions at 10:30 am and 2:00 pm.

On Thursday, we offer sessions at 10:30 am and 7 pm.

On Saturday we offer a session at 2 pm.

The current schedule and links are below. To participate, please find the group you want to join and click on the name at the time it is being held. You can join as many and as often as you like.

You can also call in by phone. Simply find the time in the box below and dial the number and enter the code when prompted.

See Zoom links and phone codes in the box below.

3) We offer free customized, facilitated support sessions for area businesses, houses of faith, and community organizations.

During this stressful time, team members are under duress due to what’s happening in the world. RPSV is here to help. For more information, please visit here.

If you have questions about any of our programs, please call us at (800) 374-4198. RPSV Cares!

RPSV’s Support Group Calendar, Zoom codes, and Call-In numbers for this month are below. See you soon!

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Zoom Virtual Programming July Call-In Information Follows:

10:30 a.m. Peer Support Group Meeting ID: 822 8553 0870
Call-In Number: (301) 715-8592 Code: 82285530870#
Online Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82285530870

2 p.m. Peer Support Group Meeting ID: 863 2765 4704
Call-In Number: (301) 715-8592 Code: 86327654704#
Online Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86327654704

7 p.m. Peer Support Group Meeting ID: 842 6608 8448
Call-In Number: (301) 715-8592 Code: 84266088448#
Online Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84266088448

RPSV Telehealth Group Descriptions

Tranquil Voices, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups each week. In Tranquil Voices, peers discuss their ideas on recovery topics and support one another. Join us every Monday at 2 pm for Tranquil Voices.

Learn more at rpsva.org/rpsv-virtual-offerings or call (800) 374-4198.

YouTube Video: Tranquil Voices

Inspirational Voices

Find your creative flow and express yourself at RPSV’s Inspirational Voices. A fun, safe space to explore yourself and the limitless possibilities of your imagination while creating and sharing your own work of creative expression. Come join in this transformative journey of healing and wellness through creativity. All are invited to participate in the process, but participation is optional.

Creative Expressions, a free weekly support group brought to you by RPSV

Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups each week. In Creative Expressions, participants focus on finding artistic ways to channel emotions into some form of art, which is the most creative writing. Peers love to share their work with one another. Join us every Thursday at 2 pm for Creative Expressions.

Learn more at rpsva.org/rpsv-virtual-offerings or call (800) 374-4198.

YouTube Video: Creative Expressions, a free weekly virtual support group from RPSV

Recovery in Action

Join us every Tuesday at 7 pm to meet your fellow peers in recovery. Each week we will discuss our progress, our challenges, our triumphs as we speed toward our own personal recovery! Recovery in Action is part of RPSV’s 9 telehealth virtual support groups and is free to the public.

Topic of the Day, a Peer Support Group live-streamed from RPSV’s Consumer Wellness Center, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups
each week. Our peer support group is a safe place for those in recovery to share and to heal.
Participants lead discussions, uplift each other, and work toward recovery. Join us each Wednesday
at 10:30 am for our Peer Support Group.

Learn more at rpsva.org/rpsv-virtual-offerings or call (800) 374-4198.

YouTube Video: Peer Support Group, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

Spiritual Journey, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups each week. Spiritual Journey is a group that offers depth to everyday life. It is a comfortable space where peers can share their thoughts on the spiritual topics that are discussed. it is a great way to connect on a deeper level. Join us each Wednesday at 2 pm for Spiritual Journey.

Learn more at rpsva.org/rpsv-virtual-offerings or call (800) 374-4198.

YouTube Video: Spiritual Journey, a free weekly support group brought to you by RPSV

Staying Healthy and Fit, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups
each week. In Staying Healthy and Fit, participants discuss the USDA guidelines for nutrition,
share recipes, and go over SAMSHA’s eight dimensions of wellness. Please join us every
Thursday at 10:30 am for Staying Healthy and Fit.

YouTube Video: Staying Healthy and Fit, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

Facing and Overcoming Loneliness, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups each week. In Facing and Overcoming Loneliness, participants talk, laugh, and share how they are feeling regarding the pandemic and life in general. Our focus is on building friendships while having fun. We also do community service projects to help others in the community. Focusing on others helps negate loneliness. Join us every Thursday at 7 pm for Facing Loneliness.

Learn more at rpsva.org/rpsv-virtual-offerings or call (800) 374-4198.

YouTube Video: Facing Loneliness, a free weekly virtual support group brought to you by RPSV

A Journey of Strength:

Come follow your path of discovery and recovery with RPSV’s A Journey of Strength. In this space you will be given the room to explore your strengths and hear others share their experiences on how to overcome the hardships of life. All are invited to participate in the process, but participation is optional.

Achieving Well Being

Join us as we discuss tactics and strategies to achieve your personal well-being and improve your quality of life. The session meets every Friday at 2 pm. Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups each week.

ABC’s of Recovery

Join RPSV Board member Leslie Wertz as she shares tips and tactics on the road to recovery. Together, session members will discuss struggles, successes, dreams, and more with each other. You will definitely enjoy this group! The meeting is being live-streamed from RPSV’s South County Recovery and Drop-In Center in Alexandria. This group meets every Saturday at 3 pm. Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia (RPSV) offers 9 free virtual recovery support groups each week.

When I was sixteen years old my mother informed me that she was taking me out of school to give me an education. What she meant by this was that I was going to miss two weeks of my first term of grade eleven because we were going to South East Asia. It was the 1980’s so we did not have web browsers and social media, there was no way to casually meet people from other countries. I was a kid from rural Nova Scotia my comprehension of the world was limited.

Our itinerary was 3 days in Hong Kong, then flying to Thailand and spending 3 days (nights) in Bangkok and finally 3 days in Pattaya, a beach resort about a hundred kilometers to the south east. It took absolutely no persuading for me to leave school, I did not actually spend that much time there while I was in the country. I am not proud of that fact but it is the truth. Flying time, not including layovers, was twenty hours or so. This was brutal on me, my body does not like to travel, by the time we made it to Hong Kong my feet were so swollen they were bulging out of my shoes.

To this day I do not let being sick keep me from experiencing all that I can, I am not sure if I would recommend this, but again this is not about judging my day to day life choices. We saw as much of the area around Hong Kong as we could get to within our three days. This included a tour of Guangzhou on mainland China. I remember a pretty hardcore open market and school kids singing, the way everywhere around the world gets school kids to sing even here. There was also a temple and a zoo with a panda. I remember shopping in Macau on another day and purchasing my first black market goods, “A Salt with a Deadly Pepa” and “Tiffany”, cassettes that would travel with me for decades to come.

I remember being in Bangkok, but by then I was very sick, so I did not see as much here. I did have the honour of seeing the royal temple and then I do not really remember much after that until we got to Pattaya. Overwhelming poverty was everywhere, I had never experienced anything like it before. I was still too sick to leave the hotel most days, but I could lie by the pool, and by the last day I felt a bit better so that evening I ate at a bar down the street. I have a few vague memories about this place, but they are mixed up in stories from earlier dinners that I was not there for. I do have one memory that I know is all mine. It was the conversation that gave me the education that my mother had brought me to Asia for.

I hate to generalize about people, but the people of Thailand are overwhelmingly blessed with a youthful beauty. Many people often mistook my baby-faced sixteen year old self to be a grown woman. I say this because it makes it difficult to guess how old our server was that evening. My gut tells me that she was under twenty-five and she could easily have been younger than me. Many young girls worked in the bars around Pattaya. Rural families facing starvation sold their daughters to businesses in the towns and cities. We were warned about human traffickers working the beach and for me not to go there by myself.

I am going to call my friend that evening Kouru. This is not her real name, it means lotus which describes her spirit. She also grew through a lot of darkness and still exuded a warm beauty. I do not remember much of what we said that evening, but I remember she asked me what I was going to do when I grew up. I believe at the time my plan was to be a marine biologist.

It was the first time I was having a conversation with someone who was my gender, around my age, and from an entirely different culture. We were chatting like school friends and then she asked the question. It was the first time I realized just how incredibly lucky I am to have been born a Canadian citizen with all of the advantage that comes with. She asked my plans and the mask of vacation disappeared. I saw them emerge in my mind. The number of possible futures the 16 year old me had in front of her in that moment in time felt infinite.

My imagination showed me all of the gifts and privilege that I had been born into. Kouru could see on my face how insecure I was sharing my reality with her. She asked me to tell her, she asked as if I was reading a her a Hugo novel. Kouru was an adventure seeker, she wanted to see what I was seeing so I told her about being able to do anything that I wanted to do. I told her about being able to go to university, and the paths that opened for me. This was not something that was available to most women in the world in the 1980’s. A look crossed her face, a look of such beautiful warmth, she was genuinely happy that one of us could go on this adventure. She seemed so authentically grateful that I had these gifts, it hit me like a punch.

I understood that Kouru would not only never go to university, she was unlikely to have had highschool or earlier grades. Women who were sold to the bars worked in the sex industry. Some were enslaved, some were not, and I do not know her story. People still go to Thailand for the sex trade; at that time it had many very dark corners and I am sure they are still there.

My new friend most likely had a very difficult life ahead of her, and I had infinite possibilities. The randomness of fate along with its cruelties seemed infinite as well. I could not bring Kouru along on my journey with me physically, but today if I need to know something whether something is possible her spirit still lends me her perspective on my options.

I hope fate had a kinder life for Kouru than I imagined. I know that things have changed in Thailand and that women’s roles are evolving the way that they are here.

The education that I received on that vacation has been the most profound of my life. I live where I have access to almost limitless resources. My access to these resources is limited by my imagination. I had the veil of privilege removed for a moment so that I could see all of the treasure that stands before me, not just an education but a gift.