About Us

Let's Get Real Inc.

           Let's Get Real, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non profit Recovery Community Organization. After completing two community awareness forums, we opened our doors in August of 2013. In 2016 our programs and support served over 843 persons from a multitude of counties. Our mission is to provide information, education, and resource assistance to families and loved ones in their journey from addiction to recovery. Proudly, Let's Get Real, Inc. received the Erie/Ottawa County Mental Health and Recovery Board "Outstanding New Program" award in 2013. The drug epidemic (particularly opiate prescriptions and heroin) is taking over our local and state cities at an alarming rate. Overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death surpassing even automobile accidents.

          Locally we are no exception to this crisis. Young people are using more and dying more. The disease of addiction has no boundaries, it strikes all populations despite ethnicity or economic demographics . However, eligibility for treatment has definite boundaries. The process of finding help for your loved one, and support for yourself, is overwhelming and often costly.

          Let's Get Real, Inc. makes this process easier while providing emotional support, education, and awareness. We assist in finding detox and treatment, providing a family group and group for children of addicts, as well as twelve step meetings. Our resource library keeps track of detox, sober living, faith based groups, and inpatient treatment facilities. The library includes the method of payment they accept, the level of treatment, whether medication assisted, and if open to residents outside their county.

  We also sell at home drug tests for a voluntary donation. We assist patrons in their medicaid applications to allow them access to treatment. Our doors are open for walk-ins or by appointment.

With the exception of our Certified Peer Recovery Supporters who work under special projects, our staff is comprised almost entirely with volunteers that have a desire to give back to the community. A Certified Peer Recovery Supporter is a person in long term recovery certified by the State of Ohio. Please see the document on this website that defines the role of these individuals.

Our outreach services include but are not limited to participation in Lorain County Recovery Court, independent referrals, referrals from Lorain County Jail, and assistance for those individuals in ambulatory detox.

          Drug addiction is a chronic disease. Drug Addiction is a family disease. Our goal is to assist the entire family in their journey. Recovery works. Recovery is possible. Our motto is “Victims to Survivors to Thrivers”. Our task is to help those in need, remove obstacles, and increase the chance of full recovery for everyone concerned.

          Please help us in anyway you can. There is no donation too small, every donation is greatly appreciated. Please, feel free to utilize our convenient donation button on our website or any method of payment you desire.

Please consider supporting Let's Get Real Inc. with a tax-deductible donation today.

Our Family

Our family of Recovery Coaches are here to help.

Kim Eberle
Executive Director

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Barb Urbin
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Cathleen Loede
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Leann Morris
Executive Assistant

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Kathy Brunner
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Greg Klima
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Jose Flores
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Barry Burdue
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Drew Riley
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Ross Taylor
Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

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Board of Directors

Let's Get Real Inc. works collaboratively with many partnerships and organizations. Here are a few of our fellow "soldiers in the battle"....

Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Board of Lorain County

The Salvation Army, Oberlin Services Unit

Solace of Lorain County

ASSIST Communities

Lorain County Recovery Court

Lorain County General Health District

Sandusky Artisans Recovery Community Center

Mercy Regional Medical Center

LINC - Wellington

WeCARE Vermilion

Southeast Lorain County Community Group

Amherst Community Task Force

Stop the Chaos Recovery Matters - C.R. Carter

Coalition for the Uninsured Lorain County

New London Community Action Group

Ohio Citizen Advocates for Addiction Recovery

Here is what our clients had to say....

"I am sending a huge thank you! Had it not been for you and Kathy Brunner I would still be in active use or dead. I am very grateful for having you help me on this sober journey. I talk about you all the time and how you saved my life. We will never forget about Let's Get Real!!"
  - Amy S.

"Hello I would like to start by saying that I will forever be grateful to the people that work at Let's Get Real. Not only but the place as well for it has served me well in my journey of recovery! I will tell you a little about myself and how my journey has led me to writing this now. I am 25 years old and have been battling heroin for about 6 years along with many other drugs as of the time. I am writing this I am 3 days away from celebrating 6 months of sobriety. I am blessed today so much so but I will get more in to that. So I was born in Amherst OH and raised in Vermilion OH and alcohol has affected my life from the time I was born. My Dad died due to alcoholism when I was 8 years old and it runs heavily in my family. So when I was 18 I had my first run in with the law because of alcohol but never thought nothing of it and for the next 4 years I was off and running around getting locked up and doing things I never thought I would do to get drugs. So I ended up getting on probation and had to go to AA meetings. I did what I was told because anything was better then jail at this point. I went into AA giving it about half what I should have and it worked for a short time. But this is where Let's Get Real comes in to play. When I was coming to these meetings there were people who stood out to me who would come up to me with a smile and it felt like they really cared and what would you know a lot of them are really a big part of Let's Get Real. So I started going up there, kinda peakin my head in to say Hi and get a nice conversation in. What do you know? They were more than welcoming to me. And just real people ya know it is called “Let' Get Real” for a reason they don't judge you or think there better, they care and want to help and to me that was something I never seen before it was a fresh breath of life in a world that seamed to be falling apart anywhere I went. So I was kinda doing my own thing then happen to get locked back up knowing where I went wrong and I was so lost but had such hope that once I got out that I could stay sober and live a happy life (like the people here) so I wrote a letter to Let's Get Real while I was locked up and once again the people here reached out and I had someone whom I am truly blessed to call a friend today start to work with me in this recovery thing. So as I was locked up I was getting busy in the 12 steps of AA and everything was going great then the day arrived when I was released. That's when the real test starts and I was going home and something happened that was out of my control let's just say I lost the place I was living and the person I was living with went to do her own thing. Now I was messed up about this and what did I want to do? Well go get high ,but thank you Let's Get Real I was driving by and saw some heads through the window and said “ya know what I am going to go talk to someone”., and that's just what I did. I went in here and was a mess and they talked with me and let me just sit here that whole week just cuz I needed to be around safe and sober people it's amazing what a little bit of love from another person can do. I would like to say to whoever is reading this that give it a shot. It is a really a cool life! If you know someone or are a family member of someone battling this there are people who can help and they might not have all the answers but your not alone we can do this together and I would not have that any other way today! I am truly blessed to have these people in my life and this amazing place to come sit and talk with true friends today. I am so amazed that someone would care about me, to even care about what I think and ask me to share my story with you. This is a pleasure. Thank you so much and come on down there is he;p for everyone."
  - Patrick S.

"My name is Melissa, proud mother of a heroin addicted son in recovery. My journey began with many years of a very strained and difficult relationship with my first born. I guess I chalked much of it up to him being a typical teenager and that it would pass. It did not. It escalated into many more years of lying, stealing, incredible rage and mood swings. My amazing family home has turned into a house of chaos and tension. When my family was struck by this horrific disease eight years ago, I was absolutely dumbfounded and completely taken aback. I, like many others, believed this was a junkie disease and could never hit my quiet, beautiful affluent town of Huron, Ohio. Humiliation set in quickly and I did everything I could do to hide and withdraw in solitaire. In time, his house of cards fell of course and I found out the truth. I immersed myself into the internet and books and documentaries to learn everything I could about heroin addiction.  I eventually found solace with “Let’s Get Real”. I have finally found there is relief with acceptability. There is comfort with others’ stories similar to my own. There is comfort with mutual friends. I want to thank the group as a whole for being such an amazing support. You have treated me and my story with nothing but respect and compassion. As we all know, this addiction, just like many others, can begin with emotions of shame, embarrassment and disgrace. With education and group conversations, these horrific feelings begin to lessen. I additionally want to thank Kim. She has been rock solid when it comes to this fight against addiction. I for one, am incredibly proud to join this fight. We all have so much more to do, but we have at least started the race."
  - Wish Recovery, Melissa F.

"My name is Donna and I started attending Let's Get Real's meetings in order to help me learn to deal with my grandson who is addicted to heroin. I desperately needed help. Let's Get Real helped me to deal with my enabling and to take care of myself. I met other people going through the same thing and it helped me knowing I wasn't alone in this and help each other accept our situation to get stronger. We also learn ways to help addicts get into programs that help them deal with their addiction. Finding this place has been a blessing to me and Kim Eberle is a great inspiration and extremely helpful to all of us. I m still attending the meetings and would advise anyone in need of help that this is a great place to receive it."
- Donna S.