Lauren's Wish

01/01/2026

🎉✨ Happy New Year from all of us at Lauren’s Wish! ✨🎉

As we welcome a new year, we want to thank our incredible clients, staff, supporters, donors, volunteers, and community for walking beside us every step of the way. 🙏

May this year bring hope, healing, strength, and new beginnings to all. We look forward to continuing our mission of supporting recovery, breaking stigma, and changing lives together. 🤝

Here’s to another year of compassion, connection, and hope. 💜

#2026

12/31/2025

💙 Thank You, Jesse and Cathy Cotter! 💙

We want to extend a huge thank you to Jesse and Cathy Cotter for providing our clients with an amazing holiday meal. Your generosity, kindness, and willingness to give back truly made the holidays brighter for those we serve.

Moments like these remind us how powerful community support is. We are incredibly grateful for your continued care and compassion toward our clients here at Lauren’s Wish.

Thank you for helping make the season feel special and full of hope. 🎄✨

12/28/2025

📢 Now Hiring: Therapist / LGSW / LCSW

Lauren’s Wish Addiction Triage Center and Jacobs Ladder Brookside Farm are currently seeking a Therapist, LGSW, or LCSW to join our team in Morgantown, WV.

If you are passionate about working with individuals in early recovery and want to be part of a mission-driven, supportive environment, we would love to hear from you.

📞 Contact: Kevin Blankenship
📱 Call: (304) 290-0000
📧 Email: drb@laurenswish.org

12/19/2025

🎶 In Loving Memory of Lauren Renee Cole 🎶

We are honored to share a very special song created in loving memory of Lauren Renee Cole, whose life and legacy continue to inspire everything we do at Lauren’s Wish. 💜

This song is a beautiful reminder of Lauren’s heart, her compassion for others, and the hope that continues to live on through her story and through every life touched by Lauren’s Wish. 🌻

We invite you to take a moment to listen, reflect, and remember Lauren — and to share this song so her light can continue to reach others. 🕯️

🎧 Listen here:
👉 https://youtu.be/sw43zhmDNPo?si=-W_T0HSZpwQCLW_v

Lauren, you are forever loved, forever remembered, and forever part of our mission. 🪽✨

12/15/2025

🙏 Thank you Grace Church for your continued love and support over the years!

From countless home-cooked meals to snacks, necessities, holiday meals, and presents…your generosity has brought comfort and joy to so many individuals here at Lauren’s Wish. 🍽️✨

We are grateful for the time you take to sit with our clients and spend time getting to know them. Your presence makes a lasting impact and reminds our clients that they are seen, valued, and not alone. 💜

Thank you, Grace Church, for walking alongside us and for being such a consistent source of kindness and hope in our community. 🌻💜

12/14/2025

💜 Thank You to Our Lauren’s Wish Family 💛

We want to take a moment to say thank you to our incredible supporters, donors, and the amazing community that continues to stand beside Lauren’s Wish. 🤝

Your generosity, encouragement, and belief in our mission make everything we do possible. 🌻

Whether you donate, volunteer, share our posts, attend our events, or simply keep us in your thoughts and prayers — you are making a difference. 🙏

We are truly grateful for each and every one of you. Together, we are changing lives, breaking stigma, and proving that recovery is possible. ⭐️

12/13/2025

6 Days!!! 🎄🧑‍🎄 ⭐️

🎄🎉 The Countdown is ON! 🎉🎄

We’re 28 days away from the Ugly Sweater Fundraiser & can’t wait to celebrate with you! 🫵

Join Lauren’s Wish and Aspire Services Center for a night of holiday cheer, live music, games, amazing food, and plenty of laughter…all to support recovery programs that change lives. 🌟

📅 Thursday, December 18, 2025

📍 Tuscan Ridge – Morgantown, WV

🕕 6 PM – 10 PM

🎶 Live Music by Nathan Arnett

🍴 Dinner by Big Daddy’s Catering

🃏 Blackjack, Texas Hold’em & Raffles

🎁 Silent Auction with signed items from Mountaineer greats

👕 Ugly Sweater Contest — bring your best (or worst)!

Don’t wait — grab your tickets or reserve your table today:
🎟️ https://laurenswishwv.harnessgiving.org
Let’s make this year’s event the biggest and brightest one yet! ✨

12/06/2025

🚨 We’re Hiring: Certified PRSS (Night Shift) 🚨

Do you love helping people rewrite their story? Lauren’s Wish is adding a Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist to our team!👏

What’s in it for you⁉️:
3 shifts/week • 12-hour nights (work-life friendly schedule)

Mission-driven team + supportive leadership✅

Real impact: support clients through early recovery and transition 🎗️

What you’ll do❗️:
Provide peer support with compassion ❤️

Help clients navigate resources, meetings, and next-step planning 🚀

Document services clearly for continuity of care📑

What we’re looking for:
Current PRSS certification📜

Empathetic, and calm under pressure🥶

Night-owl energy 🌙

📨 Apply: Send your resume to laurenswishmanagement@gmail.com

💬 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them or share this post!

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12/01/2025

💜Shoutout to our amazing Outreach Team!💛

At Lauren’s Wish, our Outreach Team is so much more than a support service, they are a lifeline for our clients. 🌟

Whether it’s by phone or in person, our Outreach staff walk side by side with clients every step of the way — from treatment to sober living, job searches, medical appointments, and everything in between. They help with birth certificates, IDs, resumes, and all the little (but incredibly important) things that help rebuild a stable, independent life in recovery. 🤝🌻

To our Outreach Team — thank you for showing up every day with heart, humility, and hope. You embody the mission of Lauren’s Wish in everything you do. 🙌

11/28/2025

🤗 A huge thank you to the incredible WVU students for your compassion, generosity, and advocacy!

Your group is helping to bridge the gap and stop the stigma surrounding mental health and addiction…that means the world to us and the people we serve. 💜

Your thoughtful donations of snacks, gloves, hats, and underwear will go directly to our clients here at Lauren’s Wish, bringing both comfort and kindness to those on their recovery journey. 🧤🧢🍪

Thank you for standing beside us in our mission and for showing what true community support looks like. 🤝

Together, we’re changing the conversation and changing lives. ☀️🌻

11/24/2025

We are so grateful to all of the amazing students who come to Lauren’s Wish and open their hearts to our clients. 💜💛

From filling shampoo bottles to sitting and talking with our clients, every single thing you do makes a difference. 🙌

It’s the small acts of kindness, the conversations, the compassion, the willingness to serve — that create lasting impact and remind our clients that they’re not alone. 🤝

We are so grateful for each and every one of you who choose to spend your time helping others heal. You are an important part of the Lauren’s Wish family, and we couldn’t do what we do without you. 🙏

11/20/2025

🎄🎉 The Countdown is ON! 🎉🎄

We’re 28 days away from the Ugly Sweater Fundraiser & can’t wait to celebrate with you! 🫵

Join Lauren’s Wish and Aspire Services Center for a night of holiday cheer, live music, games, amazing food, and plenty of laughter…all to support recovery programs that change lives. 🌟

📅 Thursday, December 18, 2025

📍 Tuscan Ridge – Morgantown, WV

🕕 6 PM – 10 PM

🎶 Live Music by Nathan Arnett

🍴 Dinner by Big Daddy’s Catering

🃏 Blackjack, Texas Hold’em & Raffles

🎁 Silent Auction with signed items from Mountaineer greats

👕 Ugly Sweater Contest — bring your best (or worst)!

Don’t wait — grab your tickets or reserve your table today:
🎟️ https://laurenswishwv.harnessgiving.org
Let’s make this year’s event the biggest and brightest one yet! ✨