Intake

• SUD Assessments

• Treatment Planning

• Ongoing Counseling

• “Your Own Path” Development

Peer Support

• Diverse Peer-run support meetings

• PS-CARE Teams (Forensic, Institutional, Mobile)

• Peer Support Specialists Development

Vocation

• Forensic Support (Incarceration, Court)

• Career Planning

• Training and Employment Referrals

Health & Nutrition

• Healthcare Assistance and Referrals

• Health and Nutrition Sessions

Wellness

• Individual Counseling Sessions

• Psychiatric Services/MAP

• Mindfulness and Meditation Sessions

• Spiritual Sessions

Homelife

• In-Home PS-CARE

• Certified Parenting Classes (CPS Approved)

• Family Counseling

• Greif Counseling

• Legal referrals

• Family-oriented Events

Creative Arts

• Crafts and Fine Arts

• Music

• Dance and Theater

• Sports and Hobbies

PS-CARE Teams: Peer Support – Case management, Advocacy, Resources, Experience

Recovery. Delivered Where It’s Needed Most.
PS-CARE is a structured, team-based peer support model that brings recovery services directly to individuals with Substance Use Disorders—where they are, and when they need it most.

Built on lived experience and evidence-based practices, PS-CARE teams provide non-clinical, recovery-oriented support that complements medical and behavioral health systems while building trust, engagement, and long-term stability.

A Complete System of Peer Support Care
PS-CARE is deployed through three specialized team models:

Forensic Teams - Correctional Settings (Jails & Prisons)

• Peer support inside facilities

• Recovery planning and skill-building

• Reentry preparation and continuity of care

• Reduction in recidivism and relapse risk

Institutional Teams - Hospitals, Schools, and Treatment Environments

• Bedside and on-site peer engagement

• Support during crisis stabilization and discharge

• Bridging clinical care to community recovery

• Improving follow-through and reducing readmissions

Response Teams - In-Home, Emergency, & Community Crisis Response

• 911 diversion and co-response support

• Family crisis intervention

• Rapid engagement during overdose or acute episodes

• Immediate connection to recovery pathways and service

The Reentry Dichotomy describes the gap between two realities that exist when a person prepares to reenter the community after a period of incarceration, treatment, homelessness, institutionalization, or other circumstances that have separated them from ordinary community life.

The person preparing for reentry has developed a vision of what life will be like when they return. At the same time, the family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, faith community, service providers, and other people receiving that individual have developed their own expectations about what the return will be like.

Neither reality is realistic.

The person reentering may envision returning to normal life—or even improving their circumstances—without fully appreciating the responsibilities, limitations, relationships, and challenges waiting for them. Conversely, family and community members may expect an immediate return to the person they remember, without understanding how incarceration, addiction, treatment, homelessness, trauma, institutionalization, or recovery may have changed the individual.

When there has been little meaningful communication during the period of separation, the two realities can become dramatically separated.

The result can be disappointment, conflict, anxiety, rejection, relapse, renewed homelessness, crisis, or failure of the reentry process.

The PS-CARE Solution

PS-CARE approaches reentry as a holistic process involving both sides of the transition, rather than treating reentry as something that happens only to the individual.

The objective is not to determine which reality is "correct."

The objective is to bring the two realities closer together.

Reality will continue to change as people, circumstances, relationships, and recovery change. Successful reentry therefore requires an ongoing process of communication, preparation, adjustment, and support.

This process begins before reentry, continues through the transition into the community, and remains available after reentry.

Through regular communication—including individual and group sessions, telephone contact, peer-support engagement, family involvement, and coordination with community resources—a Peer Support Specialist and/or social-work professional can remain connected to both the individual and the environment to which that person is returning.

This creates an opportunity to identify unrealistic expectations, address barriers, strengthen relationships, coordinate resources, and level-set expectations before they become crises.

The Goal: Reunification

Successful reentry is more than simply returning an individual to the community.

It is reunification—and ideally, that reunification should improve both sides of the transition.

The returning individual needs support in becoming capable of participating in an open and healthy community: maintaining recovery, accepting responsibility, developing stability, working or pursuing education, maintaining relationships, managing independence, securing housing, and dealing with the realities of everyday life.

But the receiving environment also needs preparation.

Families, neighbors, coworkers, faith communities, service providers, and communities need to understand what they are receiving and how to respond realistically, constructively, and humanely.

The goal is therefore not merely to prepare the person for society.

It is to prepare society for the person.

The Human Principle

At its core, the Reentry Dichotomy is based on a simple principle:

It is inhumane to expect either side to successfully navigate reentry based upon an unrealistic understanding of the other.

The cost of failing to address this dichotomy is borne by everyone—the individual, the family, the community, and ultimately society through repeated cycles of crisis, relapse, homelessness, institutionalization, and incarceration.

PS-CARE addresses that gap by maintaining continuous, humane, person-centered communication before, during, and after the transition back into community life.

The purpose is not to promise a perfect transition.

The purpose is to keep the two realities moving toward one another—continuously, constructively, and humanely—until the individual and the community can successfully live within the same reality.