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One Day At a Time - Articles
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By David Palmer
 At Our House, it’s the children who get people choked up. It’s the baby blissfully being rocked or a little girl, with tongue stuck out, concentrating on putting a puzzle together with a gentle prompt from a volunteer.
Most of these children have been neglected and some abused, but today they are safe with a staff member or with a supervised parent who is trying to get well and learn how to be responsible.
Our House, which has space for 110 people, offers separate housing for homeless men and women as well as units where families can stay together for up to two years. Adults are required to have permanent, full-time jobs and are expected to save 75 percent of their earnings.
It is a place where homeless families and individuals can come and build a new life by dealing with their mental health issues, addiction problems or the other challenges that led them into homelessness. It’s a place where they learn how to live in the real world. When they leave, most will have a plan for dealing with emotional and substance abuse problems, a strategy for living and a bank account.
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Read more... [Note to the homeless: Get a life at Our House]
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By David Palmer
 The Oasis Renewal Center, an up-scale treatment facility on 48 wooded acres in west Little Rock, is now accepting applications from up to 24 guests — men and women 18 and over — for its 30 day program and follow up.
With its log cabin cottages, main lodge, private dining facilities and scenic walking trails threading through three pristine lakes, it looks more like a rustic resort than a treatment facility.
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Read more... [Oasis offers top treatment in rustic resort setting]
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By David Palmer
 With her blonde bob and a big smile, recovering drug addict Stephenie Drake, a 34-year old ex GI from Pansy, Ark., looks happy in her sobriety.
Drake has been clean and sober eight years now, she said in a recent interview, and lives in a small trailer with her son, 9-year-old Skyler, while she attends Pulaski Tech. She has six years of college, part of it at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and is close to getting her nursing degree.
Drake began her journey to sobriety in 2002 when Arkansas CARES, a University of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS) program, created to treat mothers and children together in a residential setting, accepted her in its Little Rock facility.
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Read more... [Army veteran finds sobriety, helps others]
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By David Palmer
 On a mid-December afternoon, Sixth Circuit Judge Mary S. McGowan convened Little Rock’s new Veteran’s Treatment Court (VTC) on the third floor of the Pulaski County courthouse, the second of its kind in Arkansas and one of about 40 nationwide.
The mission of the VTC program is to promote recovery and rehabilitation from substance abuse and mental health issues and when successful, which is most of the time, damaged lives and broken families are restored and society benefits.
On the docket in Judge McGowan’s court were ten honorably discharged young men and women veterans whose crimes mainly had to do with drug dealing, possession of cocaine, theft of property and other non-violent crimes.
What happens to them in succeeding months will be the subject of future articles, but for now it is useful to see how the system works and to get a glimpse of how veterans fare in the 40 odd courts already functioning.
First, VTCs, like drug courts, are an alternative to standard courts in that they combine the structure and accountability of a court but with a strong emphasis on treatment.
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Read more... [New Court helps veterans get a fresh start]
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By David Palmer
Serenity Park, a treatment center founded in Little Rock 38 years ago by the late Joe McQuany, has a new Chief Operating Officer, Linda Parham, a business woman and a recovering alcoholic turned counselor.
Parham, who was hired by the Serenity Park board in November, fills the newly created position.
Parham reports to Larry Gaines, CEO, a longtime associate of McQuany who also took over the Monday night step meetings at Wolfe Street conducted by McQuany for nearly 30 years prior to his death in 2007.
Parham, wife of E. Rodney Parham, III, whose family name is linked to the development of portions of Little Rock and commemorated as the name on one of the city’s major thoroughfares, plans to market the facility more aggressively than has been the case in recent years.
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Read more... [Linda Parham named COO at Serenity Park A new emphasis on marketing is developing]
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By David Palmer
 Last year fewer than six percent of persons with substance abuse disorders in Arkansas were able to access the treatment and recovery support services they needed.
There’s a good chance this will soon begin to change thanks to a $13.1 million federal “Access to Recovery (ATR)” grant, announced last month by David Laffoon, director of the Arkansas Division of Behavioral Health Services (DBHS).
The grant application, facilitated by Cindy Crone at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS) was approved by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) earlier this year and after months of preparations will go into effect January 30.
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Read more... [$13.1 million dollar grant adds treatment options as new hope for recovery from addictions grows]
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