Roofers in Recovery

Roofers in Recovery Offers Roofing Contractors Help

Roofing contractors and close friends Eric Oberembt and Paul Reed share a bond over many things, including overcoming substance abuse. As recovering addicts, they thought they could help another roofer facing similar obstacles by sponsoring someone’s stay in a rehabilitation center. Despite the stigma associated with substance abuse, it didn’t take very long to find a worthy candidate.

“We helped them and sent them into treatment, and then all of a sudden the phone kept ringing,” Oberembt said in this recent videochat with RC Publisher Jill Bloom. “And the phone kept ringing … and all of a sudden, Paul and I were on the phone all the time talking to people.”

Now Reed and Eric Oberembt operate Roofers in Recovery, a 501c3 nonprofit that helps get roofing contractors battling substance issues into treatment.

Watch the full conversation here.

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Art Aisner is Editor-in-Chief of Roofing Contractor and Roofing Supply Pro. He spent the bulk of his career as a multi-media journalist for newspapers and television stations before joining the RC team in 2015. He is the driving force behind the publication’s content development, editorial strategy and other initiatives that serve growing audiences in the roofing space.