Welcome to Love and Respect Community for Recovery and Wellness

Transforming Lives, Restoring Families & Helping Create a Healthier Community Through Recovery and Support

 
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We Are a Peer Support Recovery Organization Rooted in Respect

Love and Respect exists to assist any person seeking recovery from substance use, mental health struggles, and/or reentering society after incarceration through authentic Peer Support. We humanize these challenges with love and respect for the individual. We encourage, advocate, and instill hope, meeting people right where they are with person-centered, strength-based support. Our hope is to support the wellbeing of the whole person through the sharing of our lived experiences.

 

Upcoming Events

Check out the calendar to find your next group, training, or community event.

 
 
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Discover More About Our Support & Services

Located in the heart of Hendersonville, NC, our drop in center is a safe and relaxed place where individuals struggling with substance use and/or mental health hurdles can come to receive many kinds of support, free of charge.

Support Services
 
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We’re a non-profit agency with our 501 (c)(3) status and 100% Grant & Donation Based

Your contribution means healing and hope for others.

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Help Your Community - Volunteer Opportunities

YOU can help! When you give of your time to help people, you get more than you give. We need your time!

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    Learn More About How Love and Respect was Started

    Our founder, Lexie Wilkins, is a person in long-term recovery and formerly incarcerated. He had a vision for creating a recovery community center staffed and managed by people like him and who looked like him, who had lived experience with substance use and/or mental health challenges.

    Our Story
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    What is a NC Certified Peer Support Specialist?

    Discover who Peer Support Specialists are and the support they offer for those of us recovering from substance use and/or mental health challenges

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    A History of Peer Support

    From its beginnings in the late 18th century all the way up to our current day today, look at how Peer Support came to be and how it’s evolved over time.

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Love and Respect Community Would Like to Thank Our Community Partners

 
 

Henderson County Social Services

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“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”

— Coretta Scott King

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