Important changes to VJLAP’s 12-Step and Wellness Support Meetings:

1. Effective immediately, the Monday 12-Step Support Meetings will commence at 6:30 PM instead of 8:00 PM. VJLAP will no longer host a Monday 12-Step Support Meeting at 8:00 PM. Changes will be made to the event calendar.
2. After 04/08/24, there will no longer be Monday Wellness Support Meetings at 6:30 PM. If you are interested in such a meeting, there is a Thursday Wellness Support Meeting (1, 3 and 5th Thursday of the month). Changes will be made to the event calendar.
3. Effective immediately, there will no longer be a Wednesday 12-Step Meeting at 6:00 PM. There is a Wednesday 12-Step Meeting at 5:30PM and a meeting on the 1, 3 & 5th Monday of the month at 6:30PM. Changes will be made to the event calendar.
4. Please also note the Thursday Wellness Support Meetings that had been every Thursday will only be the 1, 3 & 5 Thursday of the month. Changes will be made to the event calendar.

Thank you for your attention to these updates. If there are questions, please reach out to Barbara Mardigian at bmardigian@vjlap.org.

The Beacon

Congratulations Barbara Mardigian, VJLAP’s New Clinical Director

November 1, 2022
Congratulations Barbara Mardigian, VJLAP’s New Clinical Director

As the seasons change, so do the roles of our VJLAP members within our organization as well as within the community.

Jim Leffler, after over 15 years with Lawyers Helping Lawyers, turned VJLAP, is retiring effective November 1, 2022. While we are grateful for his many years of service, we are also firmly committed to honoring his request that there be no farewell or similar celebration.

Barbara Mardigian will succeed Jim in the position of Clinical Director, having served the three previous years as VJLAP’s Deputy Clinical Director and decades before that working in the field of addiction.

We wish Jim well as he enters this next phase of his life and we welcome Barbara with every confidence in her ability to lead our clinical team.


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