Mike Sime, Augsburg StepUP庐 program advisory board chair, talked with Paul Douglas on WCCO Radio Friday about the program’s foundation, success, and work to support other institutions in establishing recovery programs. Douglas called StepUP庐 a revolutionary program, as it currently is the largest聽residential聽collegian聽recovery program in the U.S. The program is dedicated to聽students聽in recovery from drug of alcohol abuse and provides a sober聽living聽environment聽and聽counseling.
“I look at it as a parent. If you have a聽student聽who is newly in recovery, has been sober and now you think about sending them off to college, that聽would聽be my worst nightmare, so to have a safe and supportive environment that they can come to that is clean and sober with other students, it really makes sense and creates an unique聽environment,鈥� expressed Mike about the importance of having such program.
The program began after a student in recovery shared聽his聽need for a sober environment, explained Mike. The student expressed that his experience would have been easier if he had a community who was also in recovery with him. Augsburg made the commitment to develop StepUP庐聽and through it, the program has helped over 750 students in 20 years.
Listen to the full story beginning at 16:40 on the聽Paul and Jordana Show website.