Category: Updates
Holiday Newsletter~Happy 2021!
With so much to be grateful for, we want to share the many joyous activities our Healing Communities have been enjoying this holiday season. Our staff continue to spare no effort in making our residents feel at home, connected, and above all – respected. Holiday crafts, outstanding meals, and to top it off our Asheville …Continue
2020 Update from the President & CEO
Dear Friends, 2020 has been an incredible year. Last year at this time, CooperRiis was excited to announce our new College Program. The idea was (and still is) to serve CooperRiis residents whose college experience had been interrupted by their mental health challenges. The news of some mysterious and deadly virus began making the rounds in …Continue
Happy Thanksgiving-Gratitude for a Story of Recovery
Happy Thanksgiving! We at CooperRiis find joy in focusing on not only what we are grateful for, but the fact that others are in turn grateful for us. Here we proudly share a story of recovery from one of our beloved alumni: “When I reflect on how CooperRiis changed my life, there are no other words to …Continue
COVID Fatigue in a Healing Community
Checking in with Yolanda Robinson, The Farm’s Integrative Recovery Director… Checking in with our Integrative Recovery Director, Yolanda Robinson, we asked her how COVID has impacted our community and if she had any advice on managing the fatigue? Yolanda shares, “We see some COVID fatigue among the residents. They miss being able to see their families, go …Continue
November 2020 – Update – CooperRiis at Asheville
We opened the CooperRiis at Asheville program on September 1st of this year. The program continues with our mission as a primary mental health facility, and it provides an intensely structured clinical experience whose focus is on stabilization and taking the steps necessary to begin the recovery process. So, how is it going? When checking in with Dr. Amy Zimmerman, the CooperRiis at …Continue
CooperRiis at Asheville Celebrates One Month!
CooperRiis at Asheville opened exactly one month ago today! We are proud to report that our program is being very well received. Both families and referral sources are reporting being grateful for the services we are providing. Please join us in our gratitude for all the work that went into this new program as we thank our staff, …Continue
CooperRiis’ Full Continuum of Care
With the opening of our “CooperRiis at Asheville” program, we are proud to offer a full continuum of care. Starting with short-term stabilization, with the ability to transition to a long-term work-based residential program or our transitional living program, and finally, independent living support, CooperRiis is there every step of the way for someone to …Continue
New Mental Health Residential Program “CooperRiis at Asheville” Opens
“CooperRiis at Asheville” opened September 1st, 2020 ASHEVILLE, N.C. — CooperRiis residential mental health treatment and healing community in Western North Carolina officially opened its new program on September 01, 2020. The new CooperRiis at Asheville program is a short-term treatment, 30-90 days mental health stabilization program designed to develop a foundation for a potential next step into its longer-term …Continue
CooperRiis at Asheville is now open!
CooperRiis at Asheville is now open! We are accepting referrals! CooperRiis at Asheville completes the CooperRiis continuum of services by offering residential treatment that is intensely clinical, short term, and offers stability when one is entering the early stages of mental health recovery. We are accepting insurance’s out-of-network benefits as well. Once admitted, the new resident’s clinical …Continue
