Our Story
WESLEY'S REACH
My son Wesley came home to me one month after he turned 18 — the end of a twelve-year custody battle fought across several states. He was finally home.
He tried something once. He didn't know it was laced with fentanyl. He never came home again.
Everyone who knew Wesley felt it — he was just inherently good. It wasn't something he tried to be. It was simply who he was. Losing him didn't just break our family. It left a hole in every room he had ever walked into.
I am a registered nurse. I understood, clinically, exactly what happened to my son. That knowledge didn't protect me from losing him — but it did give me something to do with the unbearable. Because I also knew, with certainty, that what happened to Wesley was not a failure of will. It was a crisis that doesn't discriminate, doesn't warn, and doesn't give second chances.
When I asked myself what he would have wanted — what his life should mean beyond his loss — the answer was clear. His reach would extend beyond his fate.
Wesley's Reach Inc. was founded on that conviction, and on something I understand both as a nurse and as his mother: the addicted mind doesn't think in months or years. It thinks in 24-hour windows. Every single day is a binary choice made under the full weight of craving, withdrawal, and dependence. That is an almost impossible ask to make of someone every single morning.
Sublocade, a once-monthly injectable medication, removes that daily choice entirely — for 30 consecutive days. Not as a crutch. As a bridge. It gives individuals the one thing early recovery demands most: enough time, and enough relief, to begin rebuilding a life.
Our pilot program meets people where they are — at MAT clinics, already reaching toward treatment — and removes the barriers keeping them from the next step. A financial incentive helps them access the injection. Thirty days of wraparound recovery and financial counseling helps them make the most of the window it creates.
Every decision I make for this organization is guided by what I know about addiction, what I learned from losing Wesley, and what I believe every person still fighting deserves.
Wesley deserved better. So does everyone still trying to make it through.
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Wesley's Reach is based in and serves the Maryland/Baltimore area, connecting individuals to life changing treatment and support in our local community.
Wesley's Reach is supported by students and recent graduates from Towson University who volunteer their time and effort to help expand access to recovery resources throughout the Baltimore area.
We distribute printed flyers at local Baltimore-area MAT clinics, inviting individuals to apply for support through our pilot program.
MEET OUR TEAM
Tammi Sparveri
President and Founder
Tammi Sparveri earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland — the same community she is now dedicated to serving through Wesley’s Reach. She served as Class President and was inducted into both Phi Theta Kappa and Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society for nursing. She financed her education through scholarships, grants, and full-time work, and is a licensed Registered Nurse in Maryland with multistate compact status.
Christopher Crosby
Vice President
Christopher Crosby holds a Bachelor of Science in Corporate Law and Finance from Towson University. He went on to study law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he distinguished himself in his first year by earning one of only seven spots on Law Review from a class of 220 students — the sole evening division student selected — and went on to serve as an editor on Law Review. During this time, he also served as an intern with the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office Major Investigations Unit, where he worked on several notable cases. His legal work has been published.