TriCircle History
Executive Director Ana Gopoian begins facilitating Hope & Support groups with the Coalition for a Better Wallingford.
The first TriCircle, Inc. board meeting takes place in Ana's living room.
• TriCircle, Inc. becomes a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
• We host a community Meet and Greet to introduce the organization.
• TriCircle hosts our first Walk the Walk for Recovery.
• The Memorial Quilt Project begins.
• Hope and Support groups start in partnership with Family and Youth Services in East Haddam.
• Our partnership with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services begins.
• TriCircle hosts our first Annual Meeting.
• The first issue of The TriCircle Connection newsletter is published.
• TriCircle offers our first Alternative Peer Groups through Harmony Within.
• TriCircle begins offering Hope After Loss groups.
• We host our first Hope After Loss and Hope and Support Annual Retreats.
• We offer our first Dialectical Behavioral Therapy group.
• We first participate at the Connecticut Barber Expo, distributing over 200 naloxone kits over 3 years of attendance.
• TriCircle drops the "Inc." and becomes just TriCircle.
• We relocate to Meriden at the Women and Families Center.
• TriCircle begins offering SMART Recovery meetings.
• We become a Recovery Friendly Workplace.
• We host our first annual Dinner and a Show at Mohegan Sun, featuring Foreigner.
TriCircle relocates to Wallingford.
TriCircle celebrates 10 years!