Bringing Awareness & Hope to Addiction through Media & Transformational Recovery Programs & Retreats
SriPonya launches SriPonya Central Oregon Recovery Collective (SCORC) this December 2022. SriPonya: Sri, from Sanskrit, meaning beautiful, and Ponya from Swahili meaning healing. SCORC will serve as a hub for recovery gatherings, support, information and on-line and in person courses for under-resourced populations in rural Central Oregon. SCORC’s mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from addictions and self-defeating patterns and to develop and support long-term recovery communities by providing recovery events, education and advocacy, and creating safe and sober spaces for authentic connection. SCORC will lower barriers to access for people needing help through a 3-pronged approach: (1) partnering and collaborating with community organizations to host documentary screenings addressing addiction, substance abuse and key mental health issues with panel discussions; (2) developing an interactive, trauma-informed, recovery content library through the SCORC website, to include, a podcast, storytelling and online courses; and (3) offering transformational, in-person recovery programs.
For Native American Heritage Month, SriPonya is collaborating with BendFilm and Out Central Oregon to screen the film Gather on November 28, 2022 at the Tin Pan Alley Theater at 7pm with a panel to follow. Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
SriPonya will soon be able to offer the SCORC due in part to grants received from the Roundhouse Foundation and Central Oregon Health Council. To learn more about SriPonya or to donate, visit sriponya.com, or contact Jennifer Eales at 541-
408-0968 or jennifer@sriponya.com. The Roundhouse Foundation is a private family foundation based in Sisters, Oregon that supports creative solutions to the unique challenges associated with rural culture and the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. For more information call 541-904-0700 or visit their website at RoundhouseFoundation.org. The Central Oregon Health Council is a not-for-profit public and private community governance entity. COHC works to improve the health of the region and provides oversight of the Medicaid/OHA population and the region’s Coordinated Care Organization (CCO), PacificSource. COHC was officially created by Senate Bill 204 in 2011 to promote the health of the region’s residents and seeks to achieve the Triple Aim of improving health outcomes, increasing satisfaction with the health system and reducing costs. Visit cohealthcouncil.org for more information.
About SriPonya:
SriPonya is a journey of beautiful healing. SriPonya is a 501(c)(3) public charity whose mission is to empower individuals, couples, families, organizations and communities to recover from addictions and destructive patterns — ultimately empowering them to utilize their personal transformation as a catalyst for positive change — and to be a pillar in the recovery community through consistent creation and stewardship of safe spaces for healing, learning and creativity.
