OUR MISSION
"The Mission of The Alternative Life Center" is to provide a sanctuary where people 18 years old and older learn to create a personal vision leading to their own recovery. This journey toward recovery occurs in a compassionate atmosphere through education, peer support, sharing of common experiences and utilizing individual as well as community resources".
North Country Warmline
The center also offers the North Country Warmline which is an alternative to calling emergency services. The Warmline is open from 5 to 10 pm, seven days a week. It is not designed to be a hotline. The service is one of peers helping peers.
Local Phone: 447-1765
Toll Free: 1-866-447-1765
ALC North Peer Support Center
486 White Mountain Highway
Conway, NH 03818
Tel : 603-447-1765
E-mail: alcjanine@gmail.com
The center is now providing transportation during the week "weather permitting". We have 2 pickup and drop off locations (The Conway Library & the North Conway Post Office)
The Conway Public Library:
Pick-up: 10:00am Drop-off: 3:00pm
North Conway Post Office:
Pick-up: 10:30am Drop-off: 3:30pm
On behalf of the members and the board of Directors of Northern New Hampshire, Region I Peer Support, The Alternative Life Center, I wish to welcome you to our new website.
The Alternative Life Center and it's three other sites including our Wolfeboro Outreach program in Northern New Hampshire, are Peer Support Centers that focus on our members mental health, well being and recovery. Through our groups and workshops, our members receive the tools that they need to move forward in their mental health recovery. We have three sites through out northern NH including our Wolfeboro outreach program. The Alternative Life Center in Conway, Wolfeboro Outreach program in Wolfeboro, Serenity Steps in Berlin, The Haven in Colebrook and The Littleton Peer Support Center in Littleton, New Hampshire.
Services
How Peer Support is different from traditional mental health centers.
Mental Health Peer Support has been active in the state of New Hampshire for more than fifteen years. We are non-professional. All of our staff have been through some mental health crisis and can identify directly with our membership. This means that members and staff can relate to each other on a common ground. Members relate to other members. A bond is made.
What do we wish to achieve with this site?
We wish to show the public that there is another way to approach mental health without using labels (bi-polar, psychotic, etc. ) We give our members the tools that they need so that they can take care of themselves. We don't want to know what your "diagnosis" is. We want to know who you are as a person.
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A New Journey
In July 2010, we began journey with our center, by moving to a new location. This is a very exciting time for us.
We are now located at: 486 White Mountain Highway (Village at the Saco) directly across from the Tech Village/Granite State College)
As you glance through our website, you will find that each center has different educational groups and different social events. If you are having mental health problems, come and visit us and perhaps you will learn a new way to take care of yourself, concentrating on HOPE and RECOVERY.