Maryland Healing Network

The Maryland Healing Network is a group of professionals who are committed to helping others in the community by participating in a monthly gathering. It is a time and space inspired by collaboration and interest to deepen relationships with one another.

The Maryland Healing Network is a collaboration between Maryland Addiction Recovery Center (MARC) and therapist groups in specific areas throughout the state. Each month, 20-25 invited clinicians, healers and those supporting mental health and addiction recovery in the communities of Towson, Annapolis and Columbia will meet to discuss collaboration, innovation and self-care. Our hope is that this will foster trust, better practice, transparency and better equip us all with resources throughout our local communities to better serve those in need.

The Maryland Healing Network is a practical solution dedicated to strengthening relationships within the mental health field. It consists of a core group of individuals who are approaching their expertise with eagerness and openness, professionals who believe in collaboration and communication and who are hoping to cultivate deepened connections. Our goal is that this network will ultimately result in more effective and innovative ways to help those in need, resulting in a core nucleus of 20/25 participants who are enthusiastic about this work and each other’s work.

The professionals participating are doing so out of love for the community and not obligation, while believing that each of us are uniquely qualified to be helpful while adding knowledge to the group.

For more information about the Maryland Healing Network, or if you would like to potentially be included or start a new area group, please contact:

Morgan Pagels, Director of Business Development
Maryland Addiction Recovery Center
443-391-2258
mpagels@marylandaddictionrecovery.com

Why We Founded the Maryland Healing Network

Since its inception, Maryland Addiction Recovery Center has strived to be a community-driven treatment facility, a treatment center that listens and responds to the needs of the local communities within Maryland and that attempts to serve the local community not only through treatment services but also through free community services, partnerships and collaboration.

It was through this lens and a proud love and respect for our community that the Maryland Healing Network was born. Inspired by a collaborative dinner hosted by Maryland Addiction Recovery Center, Welynn Outpatient Center of Raleigh, North Carolina and Futures of the Palm Beaches that took place many years ago in North Carolina pre-COVID while in town to support the Recovery Awareness Day taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina, MARC cofounder and Director of Business Development Zach Snitzer realized how impressive the collaboration was between the local therapists, clinicians and treatment providers that had met day, with everyone looking to collaborate on best practices and patient care. The attendees stressed the importance of meeting one another and learning about the local resources that existed. Often many had worked with one another without ever having met in person or in other instances were unaware of the vast resources that existed that could aid them in working with clients and patients. They spoke with one another about their practices, their specialties, their expertise, the challenges they faced, what challenges they saw that their clients faced and the need they had to find regular guidance, support and self-care.

It was through this experience that MARC felt such a platform could be extremely beneficial to the local communities within Maryland and the greater Maryland-Washington DC-Virginia region. The thought process was to bring local providers in specific communities within Maryland together to have them meet, learn about one another and discuss what new or expanded services they felt their local community needed, all grounded in the ideals of patient care, collaboration and transparency.

Immediately afterward, Maryland Addiction Recovery Center made an effort to reach out to addiction and mental health treatment colleagues through a collaborative lens and developed the Maryland Healing Network, a network of local therapists, treatment professionals, service providers, holistic healers, attorneys and other professionals that meet in the local areas throughout Maryland. Reaching out and partnering with therapist groups, individual therapists and addiction treatment professionals that co-host in each area, the meetings have become a place where those in the mental health and addiction treatment field and those providers whose work impacts and are impacts by the clients they see come together to discuss what more can be done, how to provide best-in-class practices, how to better and more effectively collaborate, how to find and best support self-care. Each group has organically taken a direction inspired by those professionals in the local area and what they feel they and their local areas need the most. They laugh, they inspire, they grow, they discuss issues, they share information on their services, upcoming events, training, and best practices.

About the Meeting Groups

Our first meeting was held in Annapolis in September of 2017. Each month we select a theme to carry with us to dive deeper into how we can better serve the community. We bring our findings back to the group and discuss. From the connections made, there has been new groups and services offered to patients, job opportunities, fundraising goals met and a much more robust referral base made for participants, which leads to better client care and healing in the community.

In January 2018, we began to meet in Columbia, Maryland. Members of the Columbia group are made up of professionals representing a variety of occupations- criminal lawyers, government officials, doctors, holistic practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists to name a few. We’ve been led through leadership development exercises and are hoping to provide continuing education opportunities in the future. This varied group of professionals will offer up the ability to view mental health from many professions and many perspectives. With each different perspective we evolve and grow to better serve our community.

The newest group of the Maryland Healing Network is our Towson group. The first Towson MHN meeting was held in February 2018 where many attendees met for the first time and discuss what direction we would take the group moving forward. We spoke of clinical modalities and what sets us each apart as professionals and people. We got to know one another and worked on planning for the future meetings. By just taking part in these groups we are doing so much for the community- by strengthening and deepening our relationships and working together to discover what we each need as a professional to do our job of serving people better and what the community needs are that we can come together and provide as a group of people dedicating to serving those dealing with mental health and addiction.