Building Beginnings

Building Beginnings reports offering: cognitive behavioral therapy, a talk therapy that helps you notice and change the thought patterns that lead to substance use; motivational interviewing, a counseling style that helps you find your own reasons to change, without lectures or judgment; contingency management, a program that gives real rewards, like vouchers, for staying in treatment; relapse prevention, which helps you spot your triggers early and make a plan so a hard moment doesn't undo your progress; anger management, practical skills for noticing anger early and cooling it down; brief intervention, a short, focused conversation about your substance use and possible next steps; substance use counseling, regular sessions with a counselor focused on your recovery.

That doesn't have to stop you. Building Beginnings reports offering transportation assistance, help getting to and from treatment.

Possibly, yes. Building Beginnings reports offering housing services, help finding or keeping a stable place to live.

Yes. Building Beginnings reports offering employment counseling or training, help finding work or building job skills; job and school support, like help building work skills, finding a job, or finishing your education.

Treatment doesn't just stop when your program ends. Building Beginnings reports offering: discharge planning, a concrete plan made with you before you leave; aftercare and continuing care, ongoing support after your main program ends; follow-up after discharge, check-ins to see how you're doing; a recovery coach, a trained guide who supports your day-to-day recovery; peer mentoring, support from people who have been through recovery themselves.

Yes. Building Beginnings reports offering naloxone and overdose education. Naloxone is a medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose.

Yes, in designated areas. Building Beginnings allows smoking in set areas, not everywhere on site. Vaping is allowed in designated areas.

Building Beginnings reports serving men. If you're not sure whether a program is the right fit for you, call and ask. It's a normal question and they hear it every day.

Building Beginnings reports serving young adults and adults.