Our program, Take the Next Step, offers the support services necessary to connect the participant to the most effective and personalized recovery organizations available offering best practices in their respective fields.
Our 12-step program is individualized to meet the current life controlling issues for every group. We utilize traditional literature such as the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. We also use The Basics- A Categorical Bible Study, Recovery Alive, and corresponding worksheets for each step. The traditional approach of Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous in correctional facilities we find to be effective, but we take it a step, or 12, further. We take the necessary time to not only share our lived experience, strength, and hope found in these fellowships, but also walk through and work each step with all willing participates. While participating in our groups and one-on-one services, participates often express the interest in continuing their recovery journey post incarceration.
Our current program, TAKE THE NEXT STEP, offers the following to the individuals within the Unicoi County Jail:
- 12-step support groups
- Faith-based subject studies within the pods
- Assistance obtaining ID’s and personal documentation
- Application assistance with rehabilitation facilities/programs
- Application assistance/connection to Sober-living programs
- One-on-one mentorship from CPRS-J and Recovery Coach with lived experience
- Transportation upon release to recovery-based entities
- Transportation/connection to offender friendly employment
- Facilitation of Individual Substance Abuse and Mental Health counseling in partnership with Higher Ground Counseling