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Meet Mike G.
One of our alumni. One of our brothers. One of the men who comes back every single week to sit shoulder to shoulder with the new guys walking through the door.
That’s the difference.
We didn’t build a “program.”
We built a culture.
Programs are schedules and binders.
Culture is visible. It’s how men speak to each other. It’s how they sit in group. It’s how they stay when it gets uncomfortable. It’s alumni coming back not because they have to — but because they want to.
Here’s a small glimpse of Mike’s story and what Fellowship House meant to him. Stories like his are why we keep raising the standard.
And tomorrow, we open the doors to our new clinical nest at 1736 Sanderson Avenue.
• Daytime Partial Hospitalization
• Evening IOP
• Community resources
• The Shields Program
• Veterans group
• Weekly peer-to-peer meetings
Same culture. Elevated space. Higher standard.
Call or email us at [email protected] to learn more.
Seven years ago, I was tired in a way that sleep couldn’t fix.
Exhausted in my own mind. Caught in addiction. Trapped in self-centered loops of anxiety and noise.
With the help of friends, and a lot of humility, something shifted. A vision began to form. What if treatment didn’t just stabilize people… what if it built a neighborhood? What if recovery wasn’t a program people cycled through, but a place they belonged?
Within the next week, Fellowship House opens the doors to a new clinical center 🦉a sophisticated outpatient hub designed to serve this region with intelligence, structure, and real clinical depth.
This expansion isn’t about square footage.
It’s about raising the standard for substance use treatment.
The testimonial below is from one of our guys — a talented, intelligent young man who represents something I think Scranton doesn’t talk about enough.
We don’t just prevent brain drain here.
We reverse it.
Recovery in this city is real. It’s strong. It’s often taken for granted if you grew up around it. But it’s powerful enough to anchor people who could have gone anywhere.
Joey is coming up on three years sober.
Many of our alumni are celebrating one, two, three years.
Our alumni network is approaching 800 strong.
And somehow, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
Scranton recovery is not small.
It’s not secondary.
It’s not an afterthought.
It’s a standard.
11/08/2025
This Week’s Blog Is Live:
What drives us toward honesty—and what happens when we lose it? This week we explore Sisyphus, absurdity, and the quiet happiness that comes from pushing the stone anyway. A reflection on truth, recovery, and the strange peace of embracing life as it is.
Read it now in The Mandala Room.
Sisyphus, the Boot Camp, and the Absurd Mercy of Recovery - Fellowship Houses When I was sixteen, I found myself in a reformatory boot camp, South Mountain, Pennsylvania. It was a strange place to end up for a kid who liked oil painting, pot smoke, and the music of the sixties and seventies. Overnight, I was stripped of all that. My head was shaved. I was woken at 3 a.m. to p...
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