57: 10 Questions with Jesse Heffernan

I am a Recovery Coach Professional & consultant in long-term substance use and mental health recovery. My early career consisted of coordinating substance use recovery support activities and events, statewide conventions, bringing recovery meetings into jails and institutions and creating / co-facilitate the first youth-specific recovery support group in WI. I attended the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Recovery Coach Academy in June 2014 and have trained hundreds of coaches throughout the United States.

As a coach, consultant, and partner with Helios Recovery, I have facilitated numerous recovery capital development planning sessions and helped coach individuals and families in creating recovery plans and linkages to services. I served as an appointed member of the WI Governors State Opiate/Heroin Task Force, co-developed programming and facilitated training for coaches for Wisconsin’s first Recovery Coach AmeriCorps program call Recovery Corps. I received his Recovery Coach Professional Designation from the Center for Addiction Recovery Training (CART) in April of 2019 and is a core curriculum trainer. I live in WI with his wife and 4 children, enjoying all things in geek culture, disc golf, and coffee. I believe that Recovery is a process of moving from surviving to thriving as a whole person.