Providing Medical Care & Addiction Treatment, Together
At The Empowerment Center, we provide wrap-around services for women struggling with addiction – including medical care! It’s one of our fastest growing sets of supportive programs, and one that makes our care model truly unique. Nearly all the women entering treatment at The Empowerment Center have co-occurring mental health disorders, most have experienced significant […]
Getting to Know Misty Rodrigue
“Once my children became teenagers, independent, they didn’t need me as much. I started drinking one day and I didn’t stop. For about seven years straight, every day, all day.” Today, Misty Rodrigue is a House Manager at The Empowerment Center’s 5-month treatment program. She works the swing shift, her day beginning at 12. She […]
Introducing Our 2024 Summer Interns
At The Empowerment Center, we’re proud to include several University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) interns in the work we do. At both The Empowerment Center and Marvel Way, our interns support our clients and enhance our efforts by leading groups, improving communications around our programs, and sharing their specialized knowledge. What’s more – they tend […]
Redirecting Her Hustle – with Shannon Castor
“I knew that I could hustle when I was doing bad. So why can’t I just flip it over into doing good? I just buckled down and went for it and put my head straight.” Beginning in her teens, Shannon was running the streets of Las Vegas. She continued for about 14 years. After her […]
Meet Ashley Ward
Ashley Ward’s an Empowerment Center (TEC) graduate from 2016 – and has also been a Peer Support at TEC since 2019. She works with clients 1:1, guiding them through their addiction treatment. This can mean anything from walking them through the stages of their personal programs to helping with doctors’ appointments to simply being available […]
How Krystal Paetz is Celebrating Life & Being a Mom in Recovery
“After I graduated the program, I worried I wasn’t going to be able to laugh and be who I was before. That I had lost me in all of this. And I get to see now that I’m absolutely still as bright and colorful and wild and crazy as I ever was. It’s just now […]
Celebrating & Supporting Moms in Recovery
Happy Mother’s Day, from The Empowerment Center! As a women-focused treatment center, The Empowerment Center is all about appreciating our current (and future) moms. For so many women, their recoveries and families are closely tied. Most moms choose to get treatment in part because of their children, when they see how addiction is affecting their […]
Steve Maxwell’s Recovery Story & 15 Years At TEC
Meet Our Program Director Steve Maxwell has been with The Empowerment Center since just about Day 1. New to Northern Nevada (and in recovery himself) he joined us as Housing Manager in 2009. He was here for the first walk-through of today’s Virginia Street treatment center, was a part of our transformation as we integrated […]
How We Get Our Clients Back to Work
When our clients enter treatment at The Empowerment Center, (TEC) most are out of work and many have complicated backgrounds of arrest and incarceration. Guiding them in finding work, overcoming barriers, and building careers is an important piece of what we do. During the first 30 days of TEC’s 5-month program, our sole focus is […]
Linda Buzicks Recovery Story – How Acts of Service and Community Living Support Her Sobriety
Linda Buzick lives in a one-bedroom apartment at Marvel Way, her home since the supportive living complex opened its doors in fall 2023. She’s a leader in her home AA group, a weekly attendee of Marvel Way’s meetings, and an active member of the local recovery community. She finds strength and meaning in being of […]