The Council on Recovery

The Council provides service through six activities: Education, Counseling, Navigation, Screening & Referral, Therapy & Treatment, and Recovery Support. - Our education services include community workshops, professional education events, and several evidence-based curricula programs. Education services are offered in schools, community centers, probation offices, and other places for people who may be interested in or struggling with substance use issues. Our long-term objective for our education activities is to help prevent future generations from experiencing the devastation that comes with this disease. -Counseling services are offered to clients living with or negatively impacted by someone else's substance use or to individuals who themselves are using substances and whose use has begun to cause harm in their lives. Counseling, while not geared to examine inter-psychic struggles, like therapy & treatment, is used to help clients begin to talk through their struggles and develop coping skills for the various environmental and social issues they may be experiencing that contribute to their use of substances. - Navigation services link clients to various community resources that may help reduce or eliminate stressors, known as social determinants of health, which can lead to substance use. - Screening & referral consist of using a prescribed set of questions designed to evaluate the person's level and severity of substance use and motivation to change. Referrals are made to treatment providers based on the level of substance use and the individual's motivation and ability to pay for services. - Outpatient therapy & treatment services explore how a client's family of origin and current family dynamics influence their problematic behaviors. Treatment is an 8-week service designed to offer an intensive, structured therapeutic opportunity with minimal disruption to daily life, while gaining insight, skills, and support to create healthier family systems. The program includes group therapy, educational sessions, skill-building activities, family therapy, multi-family education, support groups, and individual therapy. - Recovery support services are non-clinical support offered to two groups of participants: 1) those who have achieved some level of sobriety and 2) participants taking initial steps to seek treatment and begin the recovery process. We provide face-to-face, phone, virtual, and Internet coaching to address issues that help participants start or stay in recovery, offer emotional support in addressing personal life issues, aid in understanding the recovery process, and connect them to the recovery community. We also provide indirect coaching, which enhances participants' life circumstances and removes obstacles to recovery. Recovery support services, such as Navigation, help participants address social determinants of health needs, including affordable housing, food insecurity, transportation assistance, childcare, and health and wellness activities. Recovery support also includes providing educational services, such as offering classes on nutrition, parenting, resume building, completing job applications, conducting a job search, budgeting, preparing for the GED exam, and relapse prevention. We served 42,014 individuals in FY24, with 24,020 being under 18 and 17,994 being adults.