Recovery Support Services

The Vendor is required to provide to peer delivered Alcohol and Drug (A&D) and Gambling Recovery Support Services that are not otherwise attached to addiction treatment services.
- Services are intended to assist adolescents and adults to maintain a healthy recovering lifestyle.
- Recovery Center Operations provide community-gathering spaces to individuals seeking recovery support. 
- Recovery Centers provide a variety of recovery support services that appeal to a variety of recovery groups and a variety of subcultures.
- Peer Recovery Support Services provide one-on-one or Group Peer Delivered Addiction Recovery Support Services, provided by Certified Recovery Mentors (CRMs), or addiction Peer Recovery Counselors (PRCs), or Certified Problem Gambling Mentors or peer support specialists. Peer Recovery Support Services (e.g.: weekly recovery support groups, monthly recovery-oriented events, etc.) delivered through recovery centers, mentor site facilitating centers, and/or community-based recovery focused activities.
- Recovery Support Services include several key elements:
•    Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC)
•    Culturally Responsive and Culturally Specific Service Provision
•    Trauma Informed Care
•    Recovery Capital
- This integrated approach is to ensure concurrent referral to and receipt of mental health, physical health, and addictions treatment and recovery support services including peer services and access to recovery centers.
- To this end, proposals should address each provider’s capacity to support individuals in the development of Recovery Support Plans and provide or connect individuals to a wide range of recovery supports, such as housing assistance, treatment and access to recovery meetings, groups and centers to promote the continuation of the recovery process.
- Services address major lifestyle, attitudinal, and behavioral issues that have the potential to undermine the goals of treatment or to impair the individual’s ability to cope with major life tasks without the addictive use of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or problem gambling.
- Comprehensive services may be achieved by expanding service options within existing programs, through collaboration with other service agencies, or by creating new services to address specific needs. 
- Through understanding and acknowledgement of the strengths and limitations of different program approaches, each program can be strengthened, and can more effectively serve the unique needs of individuals.
- Recovery Support Providers should:
•    Deliver interventions that will reduce the economic, social and physical consequences of substance abuse;
•    Seek creative opportunities and develop new strategies to engage, motivate and intervene with individuals;
•    Decrease the short-and long-term adverse consequences of substance abuse, even for those who continue to use drugs or alcohol;
•    Include strategies that reduce harm for those individuals who are unable or unwilling to stop using, and for their loved ones;
•    Recognize relapse as part of the recovery process not as “failure of treatment”; and
•    Allow full access to services for patients prescribed medications for the treatment of medical and psychiatric conditions, including addiction.
- Peer delivered services are provided by Certified Recovery Mentors (CRMs), Peer Recovery Counselors (PRCs), Certified Problem Gambler Mentors, or other peer specialists and will reflect a partnership with the client to create a strengths-based Recovery Support Services plan that may include culturally specific resources; emotional and informational support activities; direct services; and/or other strategies that will support the client's movement toward sustainable recovery.
- Provide outreach, advocacy, social and logistical support, and education.
- Provide Support and Advocacy: Peers work with individuals to connect them to resources in the community including how to independently identify needs and access resources. As integrated members of the treatment team, Peers also advocate for individuals in treatment settings and within the community.
- Role Model Recovery: Peers have a wealth of experience navigating their own recovery journeys. By sharing their stories and modeling healthy, effective decision-making in peer relationships, they can inspire individuals to do the same.
- Facilitate Positive Change: The spirit of recovery and resilience is grounded in hope and optimism. Peers work to motivate individuals through positive means, highlighting strengths and resources. Peers can facilitate change through goal setting, education, and skills building.
- Education and Job Skills: Peers assist with providing linkages to life skills, employment services, and job training and education services;
- Family Support: Peers assist with linkages to childcare, parent education, child development support services and family/marriage education; and
- Ancillary Services: linkages to housing assistance, transportation, case management, and individual services coordination. 

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Pre-Proposal Conference Date: October 1, 2025