The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA), picked 20 provider organizations to participate in an expansion of the Recovery Works program. The expansion will serve people charged with or convicted of misdemeanor offenders. DMHA and its Recovery Works team hope the pilot program will provide the data and insight needed to expand the entire program to include people with misdemeanor charges statewide.
The 20 provider organizations will provide treatment and recovery residences in 26 counties. They were selected through an application process. The selected organizations and the counties they will serve are as follows
- Choices Consulting Center: Clay, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo
- Community Howard Behavioral Health: Clinton, Howard, and Tipton
- DC USA: Vanderburgh
- Families First, Inc: Hancock, Marion
- From This Space: Marion
- Grant-Blackford Mental Health: Lake
- Infinity Counseling and Wellness: Lake
- Innovative Recovery: Marion
- Lakeside Behavioral Solutions: Lake
- LifeSpring Health: Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Orange, Perry, Scott, Spencer, and Washington
- Mission 25: Whitley
- New Living Center: Marion
- Northeastern Center: Dekalb, LaGrange, Noble, and Steuben
- Place of Grace: Huntington
- Planted Seed Ministries: Lake
- Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare: Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick
- Stagz: Marion
- STAR Care: Allen
- Talitha Koum: Hancock
- Together We Can: Marion
DMHA established Recovery Works in 2015 as voucher-based system to support partnerships between the criminal justice system and mental health and addiction treatment provider organizations to reduce recidivism and encourage recovery. To date, the program has only been available to people facing a felony charge or with a prior felony conviction. Recovery Works has now developed a pilot program targeting the needs of individuals charged with a misdemeanor crime to help address the gap in mental health and addiction treatment resources for this specific group and to provide access to the necessary treatment at an approved treatment provider organization.
This was reported by Indiana Family and Social Services Administration on December 15, 2020.
Contact information: Jay Chaudhary, J.D., Director, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, 402 West Washington Street, Ste. W-461, Indianapolis, IN 46204; Email: Recovery.Works@fssa.in.gov; Website: https://www.in.gov/fssa/dmha/recovery-works/
