SERVICES The Friendship House crafts individualized care to each person, seeing what they need
creative with their treatment plans, thinking outside of the box for their patients. Meditation and mindfulness, anger management, and trips, during warmer weather, to the lake can all be part of group therapy, alongside the traditional 12-step program framing. Friendship House keeps to the 12-step program as it is the most common in the area, allowing their clients to have support from other groups when they leave the facility. The groups created in the Friendship House build upon the relationships the patients have to one another. “Some of the best talks they’ll ever have are sitting on the front porch with each other,” says Counselor Kim Smith. Additionally, the Friendship House continues its outpatient treatment as long as their clients require it, even after they have left the halfway house. The facility also provides skills, information, and resources to help their clients with their day-to-day living to set them up for success in the future.
in their treatments. Providing mental health, co-occurring, and substance abuse evaluations, these help Friendship House find the treatments the individual needs in and outside of their organization. With the strong ties to doctors and programs outside of their facility, the providers here can coordinate efforts to get their clients the treatments they need. Many of its facilitators are culturally competent as well, aiding in handling the plethora of people needing their help. The Friendship House provides mental health and substance abuse treatment and counseling. The facility is cognizant of co-occurring issues that have to be addressed before treatment can find success. Coupling this idea, too, with group therapy, the Friendship House tailors the group sessions for every member in the group and what will serve them best. The counselors are allowed room to be
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