Fighting
GPS Recovery are structured sober living residences located at the Jersey Shore in Ocean County New Jersey. Our main goal is to work with residences to achieve long term recovery and GPS believes this can done by giving residents the ability to experience recovery in a real life setting. Residents are given the opportunity to learn and develop their own tools to empower them on their journey. Learning how to live and deal in the world drug free with support, structure, and collaboration.
today for your tomorrow.
Find Your Way
"Knowledge about the world gained through direct, first-hand involvement in everyday events rather than through representations constructed by other people."
Oxford University Press
The Founders
Chuck Demarino and Chris Shadek started GPS Recovery because of their own life experiences battling addiction. Chuck and Chris have extensive experience going to and leaving numerous treatment centers, living on the streets, and living in recovery homes. They have taken their combined, different hard lived experiences in the world of addiction to create a unique living environment to help others navigate the early stages of recovery as well as building a foundation for sustained recovery. The GPS founders have needed to find their way in a challenging, vulnerable unknown world and into a life they were happy to live and ultimately wanted to share that experience with others.
GPS is strengthened by what GPS stands for.
GPS are the initials of Chris's younger brother Gregory Paul Shadek,
who lost his life to addiction in 2016.
This tragic event occurs every 10 minutes in the United States and is becoming a reality for more and more families. The driving force that embodies GPS' mission represents both sides of addiction: Living and Dying. The painful lesson from Greg's passing is that once you are gone, there are no more chances, no more hope, and thus recovery is no longer an option...the harshest of realities. Greg as well as 100,306 people (CDC) April 2020-April 2021 were never giving that opportunity, a new chance.
BUT!, if you are alive, there is always hope - hope to get better, hope to live, hope to experience all of life's ups and downs and most importantly a life to be lived and experienced.
GPS created a program based on this hope of living to help.
If you are alive, there is always hope.
Our Philosofy
Our philosophy is best communicated by the ideas described by David Beat and Alexandre Laudat:
"The essence of recovery is a lived experience of improved life quality and a sense of empowerment; those principles of recovery focus on the central ideas of hope, choice, freedom, and aspiration that are experienced rather than diagnosed and occur in real life settings rather than in the rarified atmosphere of clinical settings. Recovery is a process rather than an end state, with the goal being an ongoing quest for a better life."
Leaving residential treatment is a scary and vulnerable place for the person as well as their loved ones. GPS Recovery structured sober living residences want to work in collaborative manner with residents and their families to bridge the gap from leaving treatment to living in a real life setting. This journey is further complicated by the fact that a clear-cut strong formula simply does not exist for those leaving residential treatment and reentering the world. GPS is grounded in the belief that a level of personalized care offering support, structure, and guidance in real life settings is the best way to transition and build a life for long term recovery.
