These services may be indicated for individuals assessed to be at risk of developing increased substance-related, mental health, or emotional problems. Weekly or multiple monthly sessions are often recommended to address risk factors, educate, empower and support individuals toward fortifying overall health, increasing awareness, and increasing protective factors while reducing risk factors.

Life in Recovery provides an in-person (hybrid virtual available, if necessary), robust IOP that is Nine (9) to twelve (12) hours of services weekly. Clients attend sessions 3 to 4 evenings each week provided in a group setting including process, experiential, educational, interactive and multimedia components. IOP services are designed to meet the complex needs of people dealing with substance use disorders alone or co-occurring conditions of mental health and substance use disorders. Participating in the program while continuing to live in the community allows the client to participate in work or school and other life activities. Treatment planning is individualized to meet the specific needs of each individual client.

This group is an opportunity for family members and significant others of clients who are in active addiction or abusing substances to learn more about addiction and the recovery from a clinical perspective. These persons may already be in therapy at DePriest Center or who are self-referred from the community. The group is comprised of education in the form of didactic and multimedia, along with discussion/process. A counselor leads the group on different topics and facilitates discussion and processing how the disease of addiction has impacted the lives of group participants.

Family group meets one time weekly for one and a half hours. There is no time limit for attendance to this group, although the educational information will be presented in a 10-week format. There is no charge for this group for persons with family members or significant others in the IOP/LIOP services. Others will be charged a minimal fee, or insurance may cover the cost of the group.

Weekly sessions for individuals, couples, families or significant others living with addicted persons, or group format to address substance use or co-occurring disorders are delivered most often in the outpatient office setting or through telehealth. Services include substance use and mental health disorder assessments (same day assessments available), detailed biological, psychological, social, and spiritual (BPSS) evaluation and multidimensional conceptualization for treatment utilizing individualized treatment planning and approaches.

LIOP consists of groups to provide education and discussion for the client on a variety of topic about the impact of substance use, the disease of addiction and recovery, communication, spirituality and other related topics. By utilizing lectures, discussion and multimedia, the information is given to the client in a concrete, interesting and understandable manner. The program is of 12-week duration for two hours each weekly session. The client is given information on a different topic each week. Each session stands alone thereby allowing a person to begin group at any point in the 12-week rotation.