Leslie Glass became a recovery advocate and co-founder of Reach Out Recovery in 2011, encouraged by her daughter Lindsey who had struggled with substances as a teen and young adult. Learning how to manage the family disease of addiction with no roadmap to follow inspired the mother and daughter to create Reach Out Recovery's website to help others experiencing the same life-threatening problems. Together they produced the the 2016 ASAM Media Award winning documentary, The Secret World of Recovery, and the teen prevention documentary, The Silent Majority, distributed by American Public Television. In her career, Leslie has worked in advertising, publishing, and magazines as a writer of both fiction and non fiction. She is the author of 9 bestselling crime novels, featuring NYPD Dt.Sgt. April Woo. Leslie has has served as a Public Member of the Middle States Commission of Higher Education and as a Trustee of the New York City Police Foundation. For from 1990 to 2017, Leslie was the Trustee of the Leslie Glass Foundation. Leslie is a proud member of Rotary International.
Spotlight on Art/Media Contest Runners’ Up We are so proud of our ROR and Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay High School Art/Media contest runners up. Our two extraordinary winners for positive mental health messaging chose videos as their media entries. Students from 10 high schools in Rotary District 6960 registered for the contest and read […]
ROR is so proud to introduce the 1st Prize Winners of the 2021 ROR High School Art/Media Contest for teen mental health. Reach Out Recovery and Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay joined forces in the spring of 2021 to launch the first Art/media mental health challenge for high school students on the West Coast of […]
FACEing Mental Illness, a podcast and article series by award-winning journalist Carrie Seidman, is my favorite way to learn about interesting people who have lived experience with mental illness. Did you know that 50% of Americans will experience a mental illness during their lifetime? With some five to fifteen people family members impacted by every […]
Earthing And Forest Bathing Are Two Ways To Connect With Nature And Feel Good Earthing is basically walking barefoot. Forest bathing is letting trees and nature connect with you. All right, we know it’s coming on to winter, but getting into nature is one of the most important things you can do to improve your […]
Triggered means you’re so upset you can hardly breathe. Between unrest, political mess, climate change no wonder you’re stressed Are you triggered by the news? If you’re glued to the news and horrified by what you see, you are not alone. We’re all overwhelmed by Covid information that may or may not be correct, but […]
Letting go of helping someone you love, but who uses you, is the hardest thing to do. My friend, Jackie, asked me for some advice last week. Her 29 year old son, Brent, was angry because she didn’t pay his bills or seem to care about him at all. He told her he never felt […]
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