Form 990, Part III, Line 4a |
The Council provides service through six major 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 show up who may be interested in or struggling with substance use issues. Our education activities' long-term objective 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 which 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 may be causing them to turn to substances. - 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 use and the person's motivation and capacity 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-long service designed to offer an intensive, structured therapeutic opportunity with little disruption to daily life while gaining the insight, skills, and support to create healthier family systems. The program consists of group therapy, group education, skill-building, family therapy, multi-family education, support groups, and individual therapy. - Recovery support services are non-clinical supports offered to two groups of participants 1) those who have achieved some level of sobriety, or 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 the participant start or stay in recovery, provide 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 improves the participants' life circumstances and eliminates obstacles to recovery. Recovery support services, like Navigation, helps participants address social determinant of health needs, such as affordable housing, food insecurity, transportation assistance, finding child care, health and wellness activities, etc. Recovery support also includes providing educational services such as offering classes on nutrition, parenting, building a resume, completing job applications, conducting a job search, building a budget, preparing for the GED exam, relapse prevention, etc. We served 32,521 individuals in FY22, 15,980 of whom were under 18 years of age, and 16,541 who were adults. |