Community Events Spotlight: Advocates for Recovery Colorado Ambassador Training (with Sean Hedden and Alisa Witt)

The nonprofit Advocates for Recovery Colorado has been serving as a Recovery Community Organization since 2001, focusing on recovery solutions rather than addiction challenges.

For the last year, they’ve been developing their latest program for Colorado.

In January 2025, Sean Hedden was hired as the regional manager of the new Foothills program, which focuses on Gilpin, Clear Creek, and Jefferson Counties. The organization currently hosts programs in Denver, Boulder, Durango, Sterling, Aurora, and other Colorado communities.

The program is heading into its second year of funding, and the organization has brought on Lindsay Gianola as Gilpin’s Peer Recovery Coach. As a resident with lived experience in active and sustained recovery, she will meet participants in the program, share her experience, and guide and support them.

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