Free Through Recovery
Free Through Recovery is a community based behavioral health program designed to increase recovery support services to individuals involved with the criminal justice system who have behavioral health concerns.
The mission of Free Through Recovery is to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce recidivism by delivering high-quality community behavioral health services linked with community supervision.
Free Through Recovery participants will work with local providers to receive:
- Care Coordination: Includes an ongoing source of connection, helping participants access treatment and recovery support services, and creatively addressing barriers to individual success. It also includes the provision of assessment, care planning, referrals, and monitoring collaboration with clinical services and probation and parole.
- Recovery Services: Includes access to supportive housing, educational opportunities, meaningful employment, leisure activities and wellness, family and community social supports, parenting education, spiritual engagement, nourishment assistance programs, and any other individualized resources needed to help participants lead a healthy and fulfilling life.
- Peer Support: Connection with a peer who has similar lived experience. Peer support specialists provide mentorship, advocacy and additional recovery support.
- Download a free brochure here
For more information contact:
Office - 701-483-1233
Dakota G. - 701-690-4536 - Executive Director
Shaylyn D. - 701-312-9357 - Peer Support Specialist
Mychal C. - 385-346-8629 - Care Coordinator
Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), 988, or text the Crisis text line at 741-741
Please Contact your parole or probation officer to apply for this program.
Free Through Recovery | Health and Human Services North Dakota
Community Connect
Care Coordination
A care coordinator assists with short and long-term goals, and barriers, and provides a source of connection and support.
Peer Support
A peer support specialist is an individual with similar lived experience that offers hope, support and advocacy.
Recovery Services
Access to services or programs to assist an individual with meeting their needs and goals.
History of Community Connect
Stakeholders in the North Dakota Behavioral Health System Study 2018 reported that North Dakota’s current behavioral health system is “primarily crisis oriented and pays inadequate attention to rehabilitative and community-based services.”
The study identified a recommended (4.1) to ensure access to needed recovery support services, including providing funds to support the implementation of a “Free Through Recovery” program separate from the criminal justice system. During the 2019 North Dakota legislative session, Senate Bill 2012 passed which created a new section in ND Century Code and provided funding to implement Community Connect.
HOW TO APPLY: Apply for Community Connect | Health and Human Services North Dakota
For more information contact:
Office - 701-483-1233
Dakota G - 701-690-4536 - Executive Director
Shaylyn D - 701-690-7719 - Peer Support Specialist
Mychal C - 385-346-8629 - Care Coordinator
Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), 988, or text the Crisis text line at 741-741