The Independence Blue Cross Foundation (Foundation) received the Collegiate Recovery Champion Award, the highest annual honor recognized by the Association for Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE). Foundation president Lorina Marshall-Blake accepted the award on behalf of the Foundation at ARHE’s annual National Collegiate Recovery Conference luncheon.
The Foundation has funded the development of a Collegiate Recovery model and is expanding these programs with academic institutions across the southeastern Pennsylvania region in collaboration with ARHE.
Marshall-Blake also participated in a virtual conference panel discussion about federal recovery policy, joined by Tom Coderre, Acting Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use at SAMHSA, Tom Hill, Senior Advisor at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Jan Brown, Executive Director of the SpiritWorks Foundation.
