Jessica Geschke

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Jessica currently leads various projects that aim to bring awareness to substance use disorder and end the stigma surrounding it within her employment at Serve You Rx. She is the creator and founder of the Overdose Aid Kits, an Employer and Community-Placed Opioid Overdose Prevention Project, providing life saving medication to those who are at high risk of overdose and their family members. Jessica is certified by the State of Wisconsin as a Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor. She received a Bachelor’s of Science in Human Services and Leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and an Associate’s Degree in Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse from Moraine Park Technical College. Her areas of focus are assessment and treatment of substance abuse in adolescents and adults. Jessica has over fifteen years of experience providing AODA treatment services to adolescents and adults in residential, transitional, inpatient and outpatient settings. She has spent over ten years working within and supervising medication assisted therapy programs, such as Suboxone and Vivitrol. Jessica is also a certified Recovery Coach through CCAR. Jessica is the former co-founder of Ed2Recovery, a nationally recognized program that connects peers (people in recovery) with those who need support. Jessica is the Executive Director for the national non-profit, Start Healing Now. She is also a Wisconsin representative of the national organizations, Mobilize Recovery and Recovery Advocacy Project, with The Voices Project. Jessica volunteers her time by holding positions as the Governor’s representative on the Wisconsin State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse as well as an Intervention & Treatment Committee member and an Equity & Inclusion member for WI-SCAODA. Jessica is a person in long-term recovery and a sibling of a person who has struggled with an opiate addiction. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her two children, son Kellen and daughter Kianna and traveling around the US.