Life happens. Things can go wrong, even tragically wrong – but if also facing alcohol or drug addiction, how does someone find a way to a vibrant life?
“All of us fall down, all of us can have our lives broken in two at any time,” said Jamie Lamb, the chief executive officer of Cedar House Life Change Center, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility based in Bloomington, California, and winner of the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) 2025 Vibrant Health Award. “You don’t know how you’re going to respond to that trauma, and if the response is drinking or using (illegal substances), then sometimes that fall down turns into a lay down and … people need help to get up.”
Before finding support, it could mean losing families, jobs, housing, cars and more – the very definition of hitting rock bottom.
And that’s often when Cedar House steps in to put the broken pieces back together.
One of the first needs clients bring with them is knowing if they’ve come to the “right place,” according to Lamb.
“We want everybody to succeed,” she said. “Everybody from reception all the way to the very back—my intake workers, our medical staff—helps them to connect with the resources and the right people and really begin that journey with them in a way that makes them know, ‘OK, I’ve come to the right place.’”
