Christy Crowder serves as the Director of the Wabash Valley Recovery Center. She is a Licensed Addictions Counselor, Certified Peer Recovery Coach, and Licensed Practical Nurse. She is a graduate of St. Mary of the Woods College and is a proud mother of three amazing children. Christy finds inspiration in Matthew 25:35-36 which states, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”

DeAnna Griffin is the Intake Coordinator and Vice President of the Board for The Avenues Faith-Based Women’s Residential Recovery Program, a Chaplain Assistant for the Vigo County Sheriff, a Recovery Advocate in our courts and community, Secretary of the Board for the Wabash Valley Recovery Alliance, a member of the United Way’s Substance Use Disorder Impact Council, a member of The Truman House Lady Squad, and a Certified Addiction Peer Recovery Coach II who serves in many places within our community including the Vigo County Jail, CODA, and the Wabash Valley Recovery Center.  

DeAnna has been an active member of The Bridge Church for the last six years and is very passionate about ministry, volunteering, serving and helping others to better our community.  She applies James 1:22 scripture into her life daily and this has lead her to being awarded the Wabash Valley Recovery Alliance’s Peer Support Worker Of The Year Award for her outstanding service and dedication to the recovery community in 2020 and a Hamilton Award for outstanding volunteer service to the cause of behavioral health and service to those with disabilities in 2020.

 DeAnna has been happily married since 2016 to Sean who has been in recovery along side her for the last five years and has two grown children.  Her son has been serving in the United States Air Force since 2015 and her daughter is a student at Ball State studying telecommunications and broadcasting.

I am a person in long term recovery who has found success in a new and preferred lifestyle. Recovery. I am currently a Certified Peer Recovery Coach working with the Wabash Valley Recovery Center, working with others to help them escape their issues with Substance Use Disorders; by showing them an alternative pathway and guiding them with the resources of how to escape their addiction. Recovery takes work, but it works if you work it!

Shonna Frye is a Certified Addictions Peer Recovery Coach.  She specializes in jail mentoring, as well as in-office recovery coaching.  She successfully completed and graduated from the New Citizens Program with Hamilton Center prior to joining the WVRC team.  After spending 4 years incarcerated in Federal Prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, she has 13 years sobriety from a 20+ year meth addiction.  She owes her ability to stay clean to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  She believes that being in recovery is her greatest “mission” and she is doing any and everything that she can to complete that “mission”.  She wholeheartedly enjoys helping others in their “recovery missions” and says that she is “right where God needs me to be”.  Ephesians 6:6- “Not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart”.