Asana Recovery Weekly Team Update: Exciting Team Additions to Support Those in Recovery
Asana Recovery Strengthens Team with Addition of New Members
Happy Thanksgiving! We’re grateful for you, the team that makes our meaningful work in recovery possible!
New members of the Asana Recovery team
We’d like to welcome new team members to Asana Recovery.
Sylvia Jacques - Case Manager
Dena Valenzuela - Behavioral Health Technician
Adam Moses - Behavioral Health Technician
Michele Macklis - Behavioral Health Technician
Kayla Turner - Behavioral Health Technician
Tachia Vallier - Behavioral Health Technician
Jason Osowski - Behavioral Health Technician
Emma Milton - Medical Technician
Max Shoar - Medical Technician
Brittany Mason - Trainer
New Hire Spotlight
Afioga Tone
The most rewarding thing for Afioga Tone, who just joined Asana Recovery’s team as a Behavior Health Technician, is helping others. Whether the help she offers takes the form of coaching volleyball, encouraging others in fitness goals (which offers benefits to both mental and physical health) or guiding addicts on the path beyond addiction, the personal reward for her is the same.
“Helping others – through fitness and health, spreading the gospel, being an impact on those around me – this is what I enjoy doing in life. It keeps me productive and active,” she says.
A full Samoan and the youngest of seven siblings, Afioga is currently an undergraduate student at Vanguard University studying kinesiology. She hopes her work at Asana will benefit others as well as help her “gain more knowledge in the behavioral field that would help me later on in my career.”
Sylvia Jacques
Sylvia Jacques, a new Case Manager at Asana Recovery, graduated from Inter Coast College with a degree as a Substance Use Counselor. Sylvia has worked in clinical settings and counseling roles for more than a decade, serving as a case manager, program manager, and counselor. Still, much of what she offers others comes from her personal experiences of staying abstinent for the past 31 years. She joined the Asana team to “help guide others challenged by addiction,” and she says that the thing that makes her happiest is seeing “the light go on” in someone’s understanding.
One of nine siblings, Sylvia has two kids and eight grandchildren and is also the proud “dog mom” of a little dog named Sunny.
The baking competition announced for next week
Asana Recovery is hosting its annual Pumpkin Bake Off on Wednesday 11/30/2022. The first place prize is a $100 amazon gift card and the second place is a $50 Amazon gift card. If you are interested in participating please see the details below.
Details
Must include pumpkin as the main ingredient
Containers will be available at all locations on Tuesday 11/29/22
All baked goods must be on site by 11 am on 11/30/22
Kevin will be by to pick up containers by 11:30 am
Mark, Adam, and Yesenia will be judging (no bribing)
Referral bonus
For the month of December, there is a $200 referral bonus! If you refer someone hired by Asana recovery from December 1st, 2022 until December 31st, 2022 you’ll receive $200 after they have worked for 30 days.
Asana’s Oklahoma Team
Our latest addition to the Admissions team as an Admissions Counselor is Kimberly Brave from Oklahoma City, OK.
Pictured above are Jim Bell, Lyndsay Gasser, and Kimberly Brave at the First Americans Museum, located in Oklahoma. The monument shown symbolizes ‘all tribes and people are welcome.’
Trivia
Where was paper invented?
Please submit your answers to HR. Correct answers will be entered into a draw for a $5 Starbucks gift card!