The Lighthouse Recovery Community Center will host a cookout to support law enforcement and first responders.
A specific date is yet to be confirmed but it will be sometime in mid-July at the Manitowoc Lighthouse Recovery location. Lighthouse Recovery has held this cookout for the past few years to show their appreciation and gratitude to law enforcement and first responders.
Alex Hunt from Lighthouse acknowledged that many of these first responders’ time is spent dealing with addicts during the latest episode of WOMT’s A Light of Hope podcast.
“Us people that are in recovery, we’ve been through those situations a lot. They deal with us a lot,” he noted. “That’s a bulk of what they do, fixing the problems that are caused as a fallout from our addiction.”
This is just one of the reasons they hold this cookout.
They also wish to create a bridge with law enforcement knowing that the road of addiction often leads to encounters with first responders.
Hunt also hopes this bridge may change the way police handle addicts who are struggling and need help.
“I think it goes a long way in building rapport between us and them,” he explained. “Because maybe they have someone that they say, ‘I don’t really want to arrest this guy, but he needs some help in the short term. Maybe I could take him over to Lighthouse and see if they could help.’”
The relationship between the Lighthouse Recovery Community Center and local law enforcement and first responders brings nothing but good to the Manitowoc Community.
It allows people struggling with addiction to get the help they need in the best way possible.
This cookout is just one way the two sides harbor a vital relationship.
More details will be announced soon on when this event will happen.
