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ORH Staff: Wayne Kline Wayne Kline graduated from Harvard magna cum laude and then from the Harvard Business School. He worked in internal audit for a large international construction company, Dravo, in Pittsburgh. He then moved to Portland where he worked as a financial analyst at Hyster. When Hyster wanted to move him to Indiana, he decided to start a computer time share business which he ran for 9 years as Chairman and CEO. He sold his company in 1991. He then decided to realize a lifetime dream and go into History. He received an MA for Portland State and was accepted for a Ph.D. program at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. He joined Oxford Houses of Oregon in 2002. From 2003-04 he was a Chapter Treasurer. From there he became the Chapter Chair and then the State Treasurer. He was hired as an Oregon Recovery Homes (ORH) outreach worker by Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and then moved to RAP when the state decided to move the ORH contract to RAP. In 2006, he became the Business Manager for RAP and in 2007, the Executive Director. Jimmy Williams | My name is Jimmy Williams and I am in recovery from drugs and alcohol. My clean date is 5/25/2002. My first experience with the Recovery Association Project was through the Washington County Mentor Program which was created as a direct result of a R.A.P. action. Once I realized how the program worked in my life it made me realize that there was more to life than drugs and crime. I wanted to get involved. I attended the R.A.P. celebration of the mentor program 2 weeks after I graduated the in-patient program I was in. Recovery is a process for me so I needed to focus on myself before I could help any one else. When I finished working a 12 step program the first time I felt like I was able to start giving back to the community that I had been taking from for all those years and what better way then to become a member of my local R.A.P. core team. I attended trainings and learned that I could make a change in my community. In 2005 R.A.P. acquired the contract for Oregon Recovery Homes and a position was open for an outreach worker in Washington County. Since a recovery home was a big part of me being able to stay clean, something I could not do for the previous 30 years of my life, I applied for the position and was hired. I worked as outreach from 10/2005 until 12/2006 at that time the Washington County contract expired and RAP negotiated another contract which consisted as half time Recovery Mentor and half time outreach. I continue to be involved with the RAP core team and during the 2006 year we spoke at the Washington County Commissioners Council on the Public Safety Levy to let the public know how much A&D treatment services are needed and they do help people like me. We also spoke at the Governors Council on the A&D Recovery process. In the start of 2007 Oregon Recovery Homes received funding through the state legislature for three more state wide outreach works and so I was able to move into one of the positions. I continue to be involved with the RAP Core Teams and have experienced how we can make changes in our state to better our communities and raise public awareness that recovery is possible and we as recovering addicts and alcoholics can become productive members of society by becoming tax payers and brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and children.
Ed Smith grew up in the City of Milwaukie with a great family and friends. At the age of 15 Ed began his drug use and found himself in and out of treatment centers and institutions. This cycle of addiction continued until the age of 29. Ed was unwilling to recognize the destruction he was causing himself, his family and his community. After spending quite some time in the Clackamas County Jail and other institutions he had enough. With intense treatment, Ed was given the opportunity to live in clean and sober housing: Oxford Houses. There Ed was given life tools that many take for granted. This new found freedom in life gave him hope and he immediately saw how this could benefit others. Ed began volunteering for Oxford Houses. He has held positions at the Chapter and State levels. He also has extensive experience sitting on and chairing many committees. After seeing the continued hope he gave himself and the new hope he instilled in others lives, he was hooked. Ed volunteered for three years when a position opened with Oregon Recovery Homes, Ed couldn’t wait to get his resume in. Ed has been traveling throughout the state for over a year now as an Outreach Coordinator for Oregon Recovery Homes. The hope we are able to provide recovering alcoholics and addicts is a feeling you can never replace.
My name is Sean Bossen. I was born and raised in the Portland area and have lived throughout on the eastside of Portland. I graduated from Aim High School, an alternative school for David Douglas High School in 1990. I have been in recovery since 5/13/05 and lived in an Oxford House since 5/24/05. I was lucky enough not ever to go to prison, but have spent a short time in county jail. My addiction, like most of us, started early in life. I never attended the same school more than a year until my last two and a half years of high school. Through my addiction I have lost an enormous amount of pride, trust, respect, an honor. Today, because of my personal recovery I have slowly built that back with the loved ones that I damaged throughout my past years. I have served on a volunteer basis with Oxford Houses of Oregon since September of 2005. Oxford gave me the opportunity to learn responsibility’s and have a new way of life. Now I am extremely grateful to have the opportunity to help make a difference in the recovery world. I work with Oregon Recovery Homes and am grateful to be apart of an organization that works in the recovery world. My life today is a wonderful gift that I could never explain in words except that without recovery it would not exist. I am dedicated to do whatever I can to help the recovery world out, since it is what has saved my life today.
Cori Mathers | ORH Outreach Worker | (971) 645.2780 Cori is new to the program but not new to what Oregon Recovery Homes is about. We will have her bio and picture up shortly. Duane Worley | Washington County ORH | (503) 314.2231 Duane is now the Washington County Mentor and we are super excited about what he is working on. We will update our site with the bio and picture shortly. |
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