All Joshua Resource Guide

A Place of Trust Clients find a comfort level at All Joshua James Boykin, an employee at All Joshua in recovery from addiction, met program founder Mike Robinson several years ago, when Robinson was employed as a counselor with another treatment program.

At the time, Boykin was reentering the community after being paroled. “In meeting Mike Robinson through that program, I could see how sincere and real he was. He made me feel comfortable. And I could get real with him, I didn’t have to hide anything about what I had been going through,” says Boykin, who is in recovery from an addiction to PCP and marijuana. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Boykin moved to Annapolis in 1988. After a conviction for drug trafficking, Boykin served time in Roxbury Correctional Institute. After his release, he worked in landscaping and other jobs, eventually going through addiction treatment in 2005. Boykin eventually returned to active addiction, until 2015, when he tried treatment again – and spent six months in an intensive outpatient program.

Now employed as a security guard at All Joshua, Boykin tells his own addiction and recovery story to encourage treatment clients who are following in his footsteps. For those trying to get clean and get started in recovery, a sense of trust in the program is important, and that’s what Joshua House provides, Boykin says. “You can be yourself in this program, with these particular counselors. At All Joshua, addicts seeking recovery come to realize that “This man is trying to help you; you don’t have to keep trying to cover up [drug use].”

“You can be yourself in this program, with these particular counselors.” -James Boykin, client and employee All Joshua House 46