Otsego County
BETTY CURRIER, BA, CASAC, CPP
Betty is a consultant to the Council on Addictions of New York State (CANYS), the News York state affiliate of theNational Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. She assists CANYS with its historical mission of advocacy and provides expertise in connecting with the recovery community. She worked for twenty years as the founder and director of LEAF, inc., the Council on Alcoholism and Addictions in Otsego County, NY. Prior to her years with LEAF, she was spent as a secondary English teacher for twenty years. Betty is a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor and a Credentialed Prevention Professional.
An experienced trainer, Betty has worked with the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Addictions (OASAS), the NYS Department of Health, Faces & Voices of Recovery and other organizations to develop and deliver trainings for the recovery community and health and addiction professionals. Since retiring from LEAF in 2004, her dedicates time to training and other activities that build the capacity of the addiction recovery community. She is a Master Trainer for the Recovery Coach Academy and Train the Trainers, developed by the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR).
Betty’s passion for the needs of individuals and their families afflicted with or affected by addictions began with her own recovery in January 1976. “After more than 20 years of fear, hopelessness, loneliness and chaos,” she says,” my recovery has given me peace, hope, love and purpose, in short, a life beyond my wildest dreams. My four children have found their own pathways to recovery, and their children, my six grandchildren, are addiction free. I believe the cycle has been broken in my family. My commitment and life purpose is to demonstrate the reality of recovery for those affected by addictions and to help change public perceptions of addiction. I’m proud to be a face and voice of recovery.”
Betty was a founding member of Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego Counties, Inc., a recovery community organization in rural upstate New York that operates The Turning Point, a recovery community center. She is retired from the founding board of Faces & Voices of Recovery, and remains involved in committee work. She is a founding board member of Friends of Recovery New York and received the nationally recognized America Honors Recovery aware from the Johnson Institute in 2008.