Coming Soon - Geo-mapping - to help you to find prevention, treatment and recovery supports for youth and families by targeted community. Until then, visit our recovery & treatment programs section for links to program listings in your area.
This resource section is intended to help you navigate community options and programs that work in helping youth with alcohol and drug issues. We think that many solutions lie at the grassroots level where all members of families and communities can work together to create healthy environments. We want to help make community connections and map the strengths and assets in every community. We want every youth and family to get timely, effective, and efficient help and a change in thinking fostering a transformed, recovery oriented system of care.
In Connecticut we are fortunate to have some very effective and dedicated providers and treatment programs, community service programs and state agencies. Connecticut truly is a national leader in peer-to-peer recovery support models. Yet it can be tough to know who to call and where to go for help with the various eligibility rules, levels and types of programs, phone numbers, admissions procedures and insurance obstacles that sometimes pose challenges. Some programs havewaiting lists, some may not be nearby the youth who need them, sometimes the quality is poor, sometimes they are not culturally or ethnically competent, and sometimes youth are told they are not severe enough to get help. Sometimes we just need someone to talk to, or our youth does not want any help at all and we are the ones who don't know where to go and what to do. The resources listed on our site are intended as ideas and suggestions for accomplishing prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery activities with youth and families. It also is designed to help coordinate and link efforts with government agencies, local groups and community organizers.
Peer-to-peer recovery support programs close and open the gate to more expensive and more intensive adolescent treatment services. Peer recovery support and early intervention services may serve to keep youth out of treatment (unless they need it) by identifying individuals for whom less expensive measures can work.
Of the various components of the substance abuse continuum of services (prevention, early intervention, treatment, aftercare, and recovery support), early intervention is perhaps the most misunderstood. Thanks to T.V. programs that glamorize interventions, many parents call asking for someone to perform an "intervention" on their son or daughter. In Connecticut many of our programs and funding for those programs are defined as either prevention or treatment and intervention falls between the cracks. Early intervention services on our website are distinguished from SAMHSA's prevention based criteria that early intervention services are directed at the following youth:
Youth Guided, Family Driven, Self Directed Recovery: Each youth's "road map" is intended to move him or her toward health and recovery, and will include an array of services and resources that he or she, and their family can choose from. We see a shift in power within the treatment system, to the person in recovery and their family.
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