Timmy Fox’s remarkable journey from a participant in the Healing Transitions Long-Term Recovery Program to Silver Chipper #984 is a testament to the transformative impact that recovery has had on him. His unwavering commitment to serving others as a Recovery Engagement Specialist at Healing Transitions underscores this impact. In one of his college courses…
Daniel was raised in a loving, two-parent home and according to him, he had “everything anyone could ever want or desire.” When Daniel, 38, left home for North Carolina A&T State University, he was introduced to alcohol, marijuana and eventually, cocaine. What started out as recreational use amongst friends and colleagues slowly turned into an…
Caroline would tell you her childhood growing up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was anything but typical. Her parents were both drinkers, and Caroline always felt a little different, like she just didn’t belong. In middle school, her parents got divorced, and tragically, her mom attempted suicide in front of her. Her…
Addiction affects everyone in the orbit of a loved one battling the disease. And miraculously, so does recovery. Jake and his close-knit family were faced with the terrifying reality of addiction not long ago. His mother, Teresa, remembers knowing there were problems, but not knowing her son’s problems were rooted in a drug addiction. It…
RALEIGH AND CHARLOTTE (April 1, 2022) — Program participants, staff, volunteers and supporters of Raleigh-based non-profit Healing Transitions will soon experience improvements in their indoor air quality, thanks to an in-kind contribution of patented indoor air cleaning technology from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS). GPS’s Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization (NPBITM) is being installed at Healing Transitions’ two…
We had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Bob Bilbro and his wife, Carol, to dig deeper into the why behind their twenty years of giving. And even though it was more than 20 years ago, the two shared stories of the early days of building Healing Transitions like it was yesterday. “At…
When you sit down to hear the stories of Healing Transitions’ early days, one story comes up over and over again. Each founder interviewed for this year’s anniversary stories said, “You have to ask Barbara about the time we met with WakeMed.” And then they would laugh. Naturally this was the first question we asked…
When Maria Spaulding started her career, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do, but she knew she did not want to have anything to do with “disadvantaged people or people who had a lot of problems.” You can hear her laugh as she tells this part of her life story. “I wanted to…
You can almost hear the smile spreading on Evelyn Barber’s face when we start talking about her late husband, Fred, and one of the biggest joys of his life – his work at Healing Transitions. “Healing Transitions became the greatest passion of Fred’s life,” she said. “And I felt the same way. We lost…
In a world that feels constantly connected, it’s hard to imagine a time when “just Google it” didn’t bring you the answers you were looking for. But for Linda Strother, a retired public health nurse in Wake County, it wasn’t that easy. “For several years, we’d been working hard to address the rising homelessness…