Hope Staff
Randy Stevens, BSW – Executive Director
Meet Randy Stevens. Beyond the titles and certifications lies a personal journey of triumph and resilience that fuels his commitment to inspire and support others on their path to recovery.
With a Bachelor of Social Work, Randy has faced and conquered challenges, including substance use disorder, trauma, and a history of incarceration. These experiences are not just chapters of his life but stepping stones, forming a genuine connection with individuals navigating their own recovery journeys.
As a Peer Support Specialist, Randy has shared hope while working in various capacities across New Hampshire. Volunteering at Strafford County House of Corrections, he facilitated a health and wellness group for the Men’s Therapeutic Community, turning adversity into an opportunity for growth.
Currently pursuing a Master of Social Work, Randy’s journey is a testament to continuous learning and a deep-seated commitment to advocate for the most vulnerable. As the Executive Director, he envisions Hope for NH Recovery as a beacon of support and transformation in the Manchester community. Randy’s story is not just about accomplishments; it’s about inspiring hope, breaking down stigma, and building a community where every individual’s journey is met with empathy, understanding, and a genuine belief in their potential.
Missy Kimball, Operations Manager
Leadership Team
Missy Kimball has been in recovery since 2017. With her two daughters, Missy has been enjoying family life, balancing that with a career focused on helping people find recovery and reunite with their families. As with recovery, Missy has lived experience with DCYF and reuniting with her children. This passion for helping people find the help they need, sometimes called systems navigation, powers her both personally and professionally.
Missy loves to learn, study astrology and make art.
Dave Cote, Data & Information Manager
Leadership Team
Dave has been living in long-term recovery since 1990. He is a husband, a dad, and attributes the success of his relationships to his recovery. After a few decades in photography, he enrolled in college and earned a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media in 2015. Along with his past struggles with substance misuse, he has overcome many serious health issues. When doing peer support, he draws from his experiences to help others find their own recovery path.
Dave is also a life-long artist (drcoteart.com). In between his other duties at Hope, you can find him encouraging members to paint, draw, or create something. When it comes to art, the joy (and often the healing) is in the journey, not the outcome.
Melissa Greig, Lead Peer Support
Melissa is a woman in long-term recovery, with a gift for writing beautiful poetry and capturing moments in time through her photography. Her camera is her eye and she searches for beauty in the most unusual places. When not writing or spending time with her family, Melissa loves the solace and inspiration she finds in the quiet woods. Melissa strives to be and do better every day, and loves helping folks in recovery accomplish their goals.
Sharna Steinhart, Peer Support
Sharna Steinhart is a person in long-term recovery. Sharna enjoys spending time with friends and family, is a music enthusiast, art (especially capturing life’s beauty through photography), writing, astrology, numerology, and adventuring outdoors.
Sharna has a deep passion for helping others recover and find their light withinin both her professional and personal life. She has learned through her experience prior to and during recovery the importance of community, self-care, honesty, open-mindedness, willingness to receive help and the power in saying, “I don’t know, but I’m open” and showing up whenever we can despite whatever challenges we may be faced with. She has an immense gratitude for recovery and the ability that being fully immersed in it has given her to maintain and deepen her connection with others. She has a glass is half full perspective on life and in the moments that’s difficult to see, then the glass is refillable when we move in the right direction.
Jasmine Caraway, Peer Support
Jasmine is a New Hampshire transplant originally from Connecticut, relocating to the area two years ago. Since being in Manchester, she has become an active member of the Recovery Community volunteering whenever she can and consistently showing up to support the community. She regularly leans on gratitude and faith for the momentum to continue moving forward and aims to help others move forward in their journeys as well.