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Article: Rosecrance serenity garden: Rosecrance Griffin Williamson campus.(Environments for Recovery)
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- Addiction Professional
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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When Rosecrance Health Network opened its Griffin Williamson adolescent treatment campus in 2004, program leaders knew that a serenity garden built on six acres would contribute to the healing community they sought to establish. What they found ended up exceeding their expectations in touching the lives of the young people who have experienced the garden's beauty.
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"Whenever I am feeling sad, I walk through the gardens and all of my problems seem to go away," wrote Chris B., an adolescent in the Rosecrance treatment program. Another client, Emma R., wrote, "Whenever I feel weak in recovery, I look out at the garden and I realize ...