(March 24, 2018, 6:01 pm)
If you're in recovery and looking for a great school with a solid CRC, TCNJ best be on your radar...
You have Rutgers (Big school) and TCNJ(Small school) as the top CRCs in the state. Here's what TCNJ had while I was there (they were blowing up in 17' 18' could have more)
NA on campus, SMART Recovery on campus, AA meeting across the street (walkable), and weekly CRC meetings. There's faculty support, substance free housing, a decked out loung, and scholarships for people in recovery.
If you want to hear about my experience read on...
I had an amazing experience at TCNJ, having a Recovery Community made it easier and a lot more fun. We met weekly and hung out or planned ways we could reach others in recovery (it was new in 2016 when I started)
Social events included:
bowling, hiking, escape room, restaurant crawl (like a pub crawl but with food! Yum!) Ski trip to Colorado,
Wii Sports tournament... Goes on and on... You pick where you want to go.. what!?
• We had workshops on life skills and dealing with the craziness of school
• Every month was a dinner and discussion where anyone was welcome to eat and discuss the topic related to addiction and/or recovery (TCNJ is a very open and accepting school)
My fav were the advocacy events. how to break stigma and make tcnj a more recovery-friendly campus.
- Speaker events
- Outreach
- Narcan training
- Recovery Language Training.
- partnered with other cool organizations.
Tcnj is a small school with individualized attention, the CRC was the same. You get the support you need but get to run the group as a community. I highly recommend for anyone I'm Recovery!