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Building Community in Recovery


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Originally Published: 04/10/2016

Post Date: 04/12/2016

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Grace Street Recovery Services is committed to building and restoring community to facilitate the deconstruction of social dislocation of individuals and groups labelled deviant and creates a sense of belonging that is the essence of recovery. For addiction is a merely a manifestation of the loss of community.

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"The barren pleasures of a street 'junkie' are more sustaining than the unrelenting aimlessness of dislocation."  ~ Alexander

"Avoiding addiction, whether articulated by Christians or secularists, comes down to a sense of connectedness."  ~ Alexander


The video below was choreographed and directed Bry Newton of Bates College for her senior thesis project and filmed by Leroy Barnes, a graduate of Bates College. All footage was filmed in Lewiston Maine and all dance video was shot at Warehouse 550 which is housed at Grace Street Recovery Services. Warehouse 550 is sponsored by Grace Street Services and The Choopers Foundation. It is a "Maker Space" that is designed to build community through collaborative multimedia productions between the Grace Street Recovery and  88 Oxford Street Residence members  and and the academic and business communities and citizens of Lewiston Maine.


A Wonderland from Grace Street Services on Vimeo.

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