Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative
By becoming a Recovery Friendly Workplace, you are supporting your employees and creating a healthier environment for them. Your commitment shows customers and community members that your business is a proactive, valued community partner. Workplaces that implement evidence-based health and safety policies and programs recruit and retain a healthier, more productive, and more motivated workforce.
Benefits for participating workplaces include:
Trainings on how to create and support a Recovery Friendly Workplace culture for all employees
Partnership with a Recovery Friendly Advisor to meet customized business needs related to Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Connection to an array of prevention, treatment, and recovery support resources for employees and their families
Outcomes for participating workplaces may include:
Increased productivity
Healthier employees
Less absenteeism/turnover
Greater employee satisfaction
More community connection
Increased customer loyalty
A more supportive culture
Increased morale
Improved communication
Provide employees with information and resources to promote health, well-being and recovery for themselves and their family members
Ensure supervisors receive education on existing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug policies (ATOD) upon hiring and on an annual basis thereafter.
Ensure supervisors and employees receive annual training and education on substance misuse, behavioral health and addiction.
Complete and submit the Recovery Friendly Workplace checklist and application with assistance from your Recovery Friendly Advisor.
For more information on how to become a Recovery Friendly Workplace please contact:
Barbara Ann Heegan, MBA, President & CEO of Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce
386-761-1601 or bheegan@pschamber.com
Karen Chrapek, RRT, CRPS, Executive Director of Volusia Recovery Alliance, Inc.
386-846-6061 or kchrapek@volusiarecoveryalliance.org
Help Save Lives! Over 96,700 people die from drug overdoses in a year. Opioids are a factor in 7 out of every 10 overdose deaths. Drug overdoses have killed almost a million people since 1999, according to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics.
Employers and business owners play a vital role in a person’s recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). When people are gainfully employed, they are given a sense of structure, community, and purpose – all things that are necessary to a person’s recovery. A job also provides a person with a stable income and access to health benefits, which are necessary for a person to sustain their recovery. We have employers looking for employees locally every day to fill their open positions. Wellness and recovery are holistic, and through a Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative, employers and business owners have an opportunity to innovatively address substance misuse and recovery in the workplace and make a measurable impact in the lives of workers here locally in the communities our Chamber serves.
Download the full Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative Resource Guide 2024.
The Benefits of being a Recovery-Friendly Workplace include the following:
IT’S COST-EFFECTIVE
The economic impact of untreated substance use is enormous. Becoming a Recovery-Friendly Workplace (RFW) benefits businesses with outcomes like reduced employee absenteeism, a healthier work environment, increased productivity, improved workplace safety, and lower healthcare costs.
SHOW CUSTOMERS YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR EMPLOYEES
You can be a leader in the workforce by addressing this public health crisis. As an employer, you can commit to reducing the stigma often associated with substance use and recovery.
SUBSTANCE USE, ADDICTION, AND RECOVERY ARE VERY COMMON IN THE WORKPLACE
Most people with an Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) – nearly 75% of American adults – are in the workforce. Many times, people develop SUD after a workplace injury. And most people use substances in some way whether it be nicotine, prescriptions, or poisoned illicit drugs.
YOU CAN CREATE A MORE POSITIVE AND HEALTHY WORKPLACE
Employees prefer workplace well-being to material benefits. Also, a supportive workplace culture is very important to folks. Perks like wellness incentives, telehealth, Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), flexible work schedules, and ‘working from anywhere’ are much more important today than in generations past.
SIMPLY PUT – RECOVERY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS
A recovery-informed culture will increase employee morale, decrease employee turnover, and decrease healthcare and human resources costs, among SO many other benefits. A third of American households have been touched by addiction, which in turn affects the workplace.
Community Providers for Substance Use Disorder
Stewart Marchman Act (SMA)
1-800-539-4228 smahealthcare.org
Volusia Recovery Alliance (VRA)
386-777-PEER volusiarecoveryalliance.org
Community Care Network
386-255-5569 outreachinc.org
Shoreline Medical Addiction Treatment
Outpatient Treatment
Break the Cycle – Daytona Beach and Bunnell Area
(386) 307-4419
Oasis Treatment Center – New Smyrna, Port Orange, Daytona Beach
(386) 341-1303
Hearthstone - Daytona Beach
(386) 238-1348
*For a list of men’s and women’s recovery houses visit volusiarecoveryalliance.org
Support Groups
Narcotics Anonymous
(844) 344-3155
Alcoholics Anonymous
(386) 756-2930
Celebrate Recovery – New Smyrna Beach
(386) 428-2397
Salty Church Life Recovery Program - Ormond Beach
(386) 615-9180