RecoveryWerks!
“People do recover and recovery does work! I believe helping families heal is critical when a loved one has addiction because no one gets better if no one gets better. We weren’t meant to go through this journey alone and I want to make sure communities have the recovery resources they need to start healing. ”
About Us
“We see so many miracle stories but people don’t want to talk about them because of the shame associated with addiction and recovery. I want to help remove that stigma and help people to understand addiction as a disease, not a moral failing.”.
Our Vision:
Changing the world through recovery, one underserved community at a time.
Our Mission:
RecoveryWerks! provides preven recovery support ser
Deborah Dickensheets,
Executive Director
Debi Dickensheets brings 23 years of team building, strategic planning, organizational development and leadership experience to the RecoveryWerks! team. A retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, she has dual master’s degrees in Administration and National Security and Strategic Studies.
Debi has been active in 12 Step recovery since 2013 through the Palmer Drug Abuse Program in San Antonio, now Rise Recovery. Experiences within her own family led her to recognize the need for a safe space for teens to work through their recovery separately from adult addicts. At RecoveryWerks!, she is putting her organizational development and administrative experience to work to lead daily operations, advocacy and community relations efforts.
The RecoveryWerks! Leadership Team
Long Term Care
Joanne Daxon, Program Director
Joanne Daxon is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC) and Certified Restorative Therapist who brings deep insight and passion to helping families impacted by addiction. She is the author of the book A New ‘Normal’ Now, a brave and honest look at parenting teens with substance use problems that has helped hundreds of families in recovery.
Joanne began working as an LCDC with the Palmer Drug Abuse Program (PDAP), now Rise Recovery, in 2000. A Registered Nurse and a mother of five, she witnessed firsthand her two youngest children’s struggles with substance use. She became a certified dependency counselor and therapist after seeing the positive changes they experienced through PDAP. Over her 15 years with the program, she has developed a keen understanding of how substance use affects the entire family.
She started the New Generations program at PDAP to give younger children and siblings in families impacted by addiction a safe place to share their feelings and develop effective coping strategies. With RecoveryWerks!, she is bringing chemical dependency counseling closer to home for teens, parents and families in the Comal and Guadalupe Counties.
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