{"id":11327,"date":"2023-08-02T21:17:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11327"},"modified":"2023-08-02T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:17:18","slug":"mpr-highlights-growing-stepup-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/02\/mpr-highlights-growing-stepup-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"MPR Highlights Growing StepUP Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6606 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo-300x143.png\" alt=\"MPR News logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo.png 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A leader in the collegiate recovery movement for more than 25 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/college-recovery-program\/\"><span class=\"s2\">StepUP\u00ae at Augsburg University<\/span><\/a> is now poised to reach more students through new partnerships with Twin Cities-area colleges and universities. Minnesota Public Radio recently featured StepUP Director Ericka Otterson, Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator Nell Hurley, and Ethan Laugen \u201924 in a story about the need for recovery support in higher education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">StepUP provides an array of support services for students in recovery, including sober living college experience in Oren Gateway Center, weekly meetings with alcohol and drug counselors, and access to a strong alumni network. With new partnerships forming post-COVID-19, including a formal agreement with the University of St. Thomas, these resources will be available to more students from across the Twin Cities metro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere\u2019s no shortage of need, and students time and again will say the community has been the most valuable aspect of participating in this program,\u201d Otterson told MPR. \u201cSo the larger the community is each year, the more opportunity there is for that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis is my community,\u201d said Laugen. \u201cInstead of a student group or a frat, it\u2019s StepUP. These are my people who get me, who understand me, who I get along with. And it has given me the college experience in the way that I needed a college experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2023\/08\/02\/augsburgs-student-recovery-program-seeks-more-participants\">Listen or read more via MPR: \u201cAmid addiction need, Augsburg&#8217;s student recovery program seeks more participants\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leader in the collegiate recovery movement for more than 25 years, StepUP\u00ae at Augsburg University is now poised to reach more students through new partnerships with Twin Cities-area colleges and universities. Minnesota Public Radio recently featured StepUP Director Ericka Otterson, Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator Nell Hurley, and Ethan Laugen \u201924 in a story about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8],"tags":[4019,2002,2703,2705],"class_list":["post-11327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","category-students","tag-collegiate-recovery","tag-mpr","tag-stepup","tag-stepup-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11328,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327\/revisions\/11328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}