Blueprints For Addiction Recovery

11/27/2025

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving 🩵

11/24/2025

As we prepare for the upcoming holiday, it’s easy to feel both excitement and stress. Today, we get to focus on prepping for those stressful, unexpected changes and the tough emotions many experience during the holidays.

🫶🏽Cope Ahead: Take a moment to imagine possible challenges—like family tension, travel delays, or feeling overwhelmed—and plan how you’ll respond. Maybe it’s a deep breath, a short walk, or a kind phrase to yourself.

😎Radical Acceptance: When things don’t go as planned, practice letting go of the “should” and embracing what is. Acceptance doesn’t mean approval—it means freeing yourself from the fight against reality - which can be very painful.

Pair these skills with mindful appreciation for what matters most: connection, warmth, and small moments of peace.

11/21/2025

Meet Jammy🩵

A dedicated, and flourishing, Program Counselor at our Mount Joy location. Since joining Blueprints, he’s become an invaluable part of our team—grounded in DBT principles, highly responsive to client needs, and committed to creating a safe, empowering space for healing.

Jammy’s approach is creative, compassionate, and authentic. He makes clients feel truly seen and supported, and his commitment to our mission shines through in everything he does. He’s eager to grow with Blueprints and willingly steps in wherever he’s needed.

Beyond his daily work, Jammy is active within the community —most recently helping feed individuals experiencing homelessness in Reading, PA. His passion and generosity reflect the heart of our mission. Jammy shines his light on all he comes across.

We’re so grateful to have the opportunity to have Jammy on our team. His ideas, energy, authenticity and care are indispensable. 🫶🏽

11/20/2025

Behavioral health is complex because human life is complex. People rarely come to treatment with a single, isolated struggle. Substance use often exists alongside anxiety, depression, trauma, and other mental health challenges. These experiences are separate, yet deeply connected—they shape and reinforce each other.

For decades, care has been divided: one provider for substance use, another for mental health. That division made sense in theory, but in practice, it asks people to split themselves in two. Families are left navigating fragmented systems while carrying suffering that refuses to fit into neat categories.

At Blueprints, we recognize that this isn’t just an observation—it’s a call to action. We have the opportunity—and the responsibility—to do better. To integrate care in ways that honor complexity. To design programs that don’t just treat symptoms, but see the whole person. Evolution isn’t optional; it’s essential. And we are committed to leading that shift, because every person deserves care that meets their suffering with understanding and creates a path toward lasting wellness.

11/17/2025

For many, this time of year brings joy, connection, and celebration—but it can also come with heightened stress, stir up memories of loss and disconnection, and feel quite chaotic. So, how can we experience a more balanced holiday season? One proven approach: Gratitude. I know, sounds cliché’, but is it worth a try? We think so …

First step: Awareness. Notice what matters to you and the small positives in your day. Did someone return your cart at the grocery store? Was your commute traffic-free? Did a stranger smile at you? Awareness is the foundation for gratitude.

Gratitude isn’t just a feeling—it’s an action we must pursue. When we actively express gratitude, we experience real benefits: improved well-being, reduced stress, and greater balance. Even small gestures—like saying “thank you” or writing a note—can make a meaningful difference.

Moments like these can be seen as small wins—gentle reminders that we can cultivate balance in everyday life and even in painful moments. Over time, the practice of gratitude creates space for a more balanced and grounded perspective. 🩵

11/13/2025

🩵Today is World Kindness Day—a perfect time to practice Loving-Kindness, a mindfulness exercise that nurtures compassion for yourself and others. It helps soften judgment, release hostility, and create space for connection and healing.

Give it a try:
🧘🏻‍♀️Find a quiet spot and close your eyes.
✨Take a few deep breaths.
🫶🏽Repeat silently: “May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I be safe.”
🫂Then extend it outward: “May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be safe.”

Start with yourself, then loved ones, then even strangers.

Kindness isn’t just about helping others—it’s about showing compassion to yourself, too. Every act of kindness, big or small, strengthens fellowship and hope. Today, choose kindness—for you and for someone else.

11/06/2025

Our community drop-in center is a space dedicated to fostering connection, healing, and ongoing support - no matter where you are in your journey.🫂

10/31/2025

10/31/2025

Come out on November 3rd to hear from us and from other committed leaders and public servants. Learn about what our people need, and what we’re doing to make resources, pathways, and opportunities for healing accessible to everyone.

"If we’re going to make healing happen, we’ve got to share the best of what we know with each other, and commit to knowing better and doing better every day." - Benjamin McCoy, CEO, Blueprints for Addiction Recovery.

🗓️ Healing Beyond Boundaries
📍 The Ware Center, Lancaster, PA
🕡 Monday, November 3rd at 6:30 PM

10/31/2025

Healing Beyond Boundaries is happening Monday, 11/3, at 6:30 PM — and we’re so excited to welcome YOU — to the conversation. 💙

We’ll be talking about what’s working in recovery support, and listening to YOU about what can be done better.

Come hang out, share your voice, and help shape the future of healing.

When: November 3rd, 6:30 pm
Where: The Ware Center | 42 N Prince St., Lancaster, PA