COUNCIL ON RECOVERY
PO Box 2768, Houston, TX 772522768 www.councilonrecovery.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission of the Council is to keep our community healthy, productive and safe by providing services and information to all who may be adversely affected by alcohol and drugs.

The Council on Recovery envisions a metropolitan Houston in which all people who experience alcohol, drug or related problems have access to effective, affordable services that address their needs.

Risk Reduction: Risk Reduction services are provided through three major activities: Education, Counseling and Case Management. Our education services include community workshops and professional education events as well as several evidence-based curricula programs offered in schools, community centers, probation offices, and other places people show up who may be interested in or struggling with substance use issues. The long-term objective of our education activities is to help prevent future generations from experiencing the devastation that comes with this disease. Counseling and case management services are offered to those clients who are living with or negatively impacted by someone else's substance use; or to those individuals who themselves are using substances and whose use has begun to cause harm in their lives. Counseling and case management activities are more intensive and individualized than most of our education activities and are interventions used with clients before the person's use has become chronic addiction. Case management services link clients to various community resources that may help reduce or eliminate stressors that may be causing them to turn to substances. Counseling, while not geared to examine inter-psychic struggles like therapy and treatment, is used to help clients begin to talk through their struggles and to develop coping skills for the various environmental and social issues they may be experiencing which are contributing to their use of substances.We provided risk reduction services to over 73,000 people in 2018. 51,898 were children under 18 years of age and 21,102 were adults over the age of 18.

Treatment and Recovery: Services are provided through three major activities: Screening and Referral; Therapy and Treatment; and Recovery Support. Screening and referral consists of using a prescribed set of questions designed to evaluate the person's level and severity of substance use and motivation to change. Based upon the level of use and the person's motivation and capacity to pay for services, referrals are made. Outpatient therapy and treatment services are provided by The Council at our offices. The Council's treatment services explore how a client's family of origin and current family dynamics influence his/her problematic behaviors. Treatment is an 8 week long service that is 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, and multi-family education and support group, and individual therapy. Recovery support services are non-clinical supports offered to participants who have achieved some level of sobriety which helps the participant maintain sobriety and begin to rebuild their lives or to participants that are taking initial steps to seek treatment and begin the recovery process. We provide face to face, phone and Internet coaching to address issues that help the participant to start or to stay in recovery, to provide emotional support in addressing personal life issues, to aid in understanding the recovery process, and to connect them to the recovery community. We also provide indirect coaching which helps to improve the participants' life circumstances and to eliminate obstacles to recovery. This includes helping the participant find affordable housing, connecting them to food pantries and clothing banks, providing transportation assistance, finding child care, and health and wellness activities, etc. Recovery support also includes providing educational services such as offering classes on nutrition, parenting, how to build a resume, how to complete job applications, how to conduct a job search, how to build a budget, how to prepare for the GED exam, relapse prevention, etc.We provided Treatment and Recovery services to 4,116 adults in 2018 and to 528 children under the age of 18.

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