Recovery Services
Public Health’s Recovery Services program can help you or your loved ones begin the path to recovery from substance use or gambling concerns.
Substance use and and gambling problems affect the lives of many people, from youth to senior citizens. Broken promises, family and relationship problems, absenteeism, job loss, bankruptcy, poor grades, school suspensions, and legal problems are common.
Our Recovery Team brings compassion, professionalism, and lived experience to guide you from challenges to recovery. Together, we’ll identify your strengths and areas for growth, to collaboratively set meaningful goals.
Our caring, experienced, professional staff help you find a way out of pain and into recovery. They help you identify your strengths and problem areas, and together with you, identify and set your treatment goals.
Peer Supporters
Our Recovery Services staff features several peer supporters who through their certified training and lived experience can provide compassionate and caring help.
Recovery Service's Outreach Team
Recovery Service's outreach team works closely with area courts and hospitals to provide support and linkage to care for persons struggling with substance use. In 2024, Outreach began working with local law enforcement on a pre-arrest deflection initiative, to lessen incarcerations and engagement with the criminal justice system, and to deflect persons with low level offenses and substance use disorder into direct treatment linkage. This team is made up of three (3) Mental Health/Substance Use Therapists and eight (7) Certified Peer Recovery Supporters to be able to provide not only peer support but also clinical services to our community and the persons we work with daily.
Treatment Services
Treatment includes specialty care groups, person-centered individual counseling and recovery skills groups for adults, 18 and older.
Individual sessions provide support to explore personal challenges. Clients work together with their counselor at setting goals, developing individual treatment plans, and evaluating and tracking progress to support their own well-being.
Specialty care, and education groups provide opportunity to process thoughts, feelings and challenges, in a supportive environment. The small group format promotes sharing and caring so that clients can learn from the experiences of others in the group, and practice newly acquired recovery skills.
The aim is to rebuild lives and gain self-confidence to maintain lasting recovery by focusing on personal growth, health and wellness, community integration, stable housing, gainful employment, 12-step involvement and improving relationships - all needed to thrive independently.
Our peer support team uses lived experience to provide compassionate, authentic support to real-life concerns. They build community through developing relationships as well as sharing resources.
The transitional housing program is designed for those who need a safe place to stay while they are engaged in treatment services.
- Safe Supportive Housing
- Linkage to Community Recovery Services
- Peer Support Sevices
- Case Management
- MAT Friendly
- MTransition Planning
Free Gambling services for Montgomery County residents, NOT eligible for Medicaid.
- Comprehensive Gambling Screening and Assessments
- Private, Individual Counseling
- Education/Support group
- Strengthen financial stability and decision making.
- Increase awareness
- Early intervention
Treatment Programs
Recovery Services provides many options for adults 18 and older that can help individuals stay on the path to recovery. Some of these services include:
- Screening and assessment
- Non-Intensive Outpatient counseling
- Intensive Outpatient counseling
- Family counseling
- Medicated assisted recovery linkage
- Case management
- Linkage to services as needed
- Integrated support for primary substance use and co-occurring mild or moderate mental health conditions.
Specialty Care Groups
Recovery Services groups lets you hear the experiences of others who may be in similar circumstances.
- Life Skills Group – Practical tools for managing stress, emotions, and daily challenges
- Seeking Safety Trauma Group – Skills based support for coping with trauma and co-occurring conditions safely
- 12 Step Aftercare Group – Ongoing recovery support grounded in 12 step principles and accountability
Prevention
Our prevention programs seek to reach out to the community to provide education and resources to reduce the number of people who become addicted.
- Strengthening Families - classroom and community-based education for children and their families (meals included)
- Risky Business - helping kids and their parents understand the dangers of risky behaviors
- CATCH My Breath is a peer-reviewed, evidence-based youth vaping prevention program, rooted in social cognitive theory. The program provides up-to-date information to teachers, parents, and health professionals to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions about the use of e-cigarettes and vaping devices.
Problem Gambling
Are you concerned about the gambling habits of you, or someone you know?
Our trained experts will help you identify the signs
Services are offered free-of-charge to all Montgomery County residents.
September is Recovery Month and you will hear from Madonna Marable, Senior Manager of Recovery Services and Randy Carmack, Community Outreach Supervisor with the Recovery Outreach Team about how you or your loved ones can start the road to recovery. Learn more here: https://www.phdmc.org/programs-a-to-z/recovery-services
William Roberts, Senior Manager of Public Health’s Recovery Services program talks about how the Recovery Services program can help people start on the road to recovery.
