About
Recovery Resources
Our Purpose
Individuals, families, and communities across our region are grappling with the devastating effects of addiction. Thankfully, there is hope because individuals, families, and communities recover every day. Together, so will we.
Founded in 2018 by three friends in long-term recovery, our organization is a 501(c)3 nonprofit supporting recovery from substance use and addiction in Northeast Tennessee.
We’re equipping individuals with tools and resources and cultivating hope, awareness, and opportunities for recovery. We’re empowering our communities to thrive beyond addiction.
Recovery Resources
Tabitha Edwards
Executive Director
On track for LADAC II
Certified Family Support Specialist
I am an East Tennessee native from Carter County. I love these mountains and want to see our communities heal from the damage wreaked on our area by addiction.
I co-founded Recovery Resources TN in 2018 with two dear friends. The three of us hoped to create a non-profit to make it a little easier on the people coming into recovery behind us. My passion is to help people find a path through recovery in which they can thrive and become the person they want to be. It is my heart’s desire that our organization be a safe place where people can live, learn and grow.
Craig Forrester
Program Director
I co-founded Recovery Resources TN in 2018 with two dear friends. The three of us hoped to create a non-profit to make it a little easier on the people coming into recovery behind us. We saw a need in our area for sober living with continued support to help people thrive beyond addiction. I am passionate about helping those in recovery and hopefully making some change in our community.
Board of Directors
Our board is a passionate group of individuals committed to changing lives and restoring our communities.
Meagan Fisher
President
Meagan Fisher is the coordinator of Mentorship, Tobacco and Alcohol Programs. She is a graduate of ETSU with a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. For 9 years she worked as a therapist and then Director of a local inpatient substance abuse treatment center. Meagan then made the move to outpatient services where she helped men, women, and their families through the recovery process. She joined Recovery Resources because she has a passion for helping her community, a desire to help prevent those in the community from suffering from the disease of addiction, and to help families find healing and support. Meagan is the mother of two amazing daughters. Additionally she is also known as “Momma Meagan” to the many clients she worked with along their recovery journey’s because she treats everyone she encounters with love and compassion. She desires to see people at their core and love and support them from that space.
John Fisher
Vice President
Creator of Building your House of Recovery. A presentation for addicted persons in a treatment group environment, and useful as an educational workshop for Physicians currently treating opiate dependent individuals detoxing with or providing medication maintenance with buprenorphine.
Primary focus on helping addicts recovering from opiate dependency and buprenorphine (Suboxone/Subutex) dependency.
Individual/Family addiction counseling. Addiction and Recovery education and recovery coaching.
Jilian Reece
Treasurer
Jilian Reece is the Treasurer of Recovery Resources. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication from ETSU and is a Certified Prevention Specialist. Her favorite part of her job is working with teenagers because she is confident they are going to make the world a gentler and kinder place as they grow. She also loves teaching about adverse childhood experiences and feels like everyone should know their score and how to build resilience (and their enneagram number too!). Jilian has three precious boys and one amazing little girl who loves to play, learn and grow in the Carter County community and she hopes that her work makes that community a better place for them.
Certified Prevention Specialist II
Ellie Pappas Franklin
Secretary
Ellie Pappas Franklin is Licensed Master’s Social Worker and Supervisee in Clinical Social Work. Her background as a public defender social worker inspired a passion for fighting against mass incarceration and the criminalization of poverty and addiction. She currently works as outpatient therapist in community mental health.
Jason Abernathy
Board Member
Jason served 4 years in the United States Marine Corps before transitioning into a 16-year career in law
enforcement. He then made a career change which allowed him to give back by assisting others in
finding their way to the road to recovery.
Jason is currently a Licensed Master Social Worker in Mental Health for the Veterans Administration,
Mountain Home, TN. Jason previously worked for Insight Alliance as part of the Lifeline Peer Project of
Tennessee from August 2013 to August 2022. He served as the Region 1 Lifeline Peer Project
Coordinator, and was a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS).
Jason is a person in long term recovery from co-occurring disorders and desires to work to help others
break the chains of addiction. He graduated from The University of Tennessee in May 2022, where he
received his Masters of Social Work Degree.
Steve Jones
Board Member
Person in long term recovery who is passionate about helping others who are starting a new way of life. Assists with website, tech issues and events for Recovery Resources.
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We’re always looking for ways to partner with the community
and work with other organizations to further our mission.
and work with other organizations to further our mission.
We’re always looking for ways to partner with the community and work with other organizations to further our mission.