Overview
A recovery specialist helps support a person in substance abuse recovery to overcome barriers to maintaining sobriety. A recovery specialist is currently on a recovery path as well.
Average Length of Service
6 months
Frequency & Location of Contacts
Frequency is as often as needed. Services are community based.
Eligibility
People over the age of 18. The service must be opened with managed care organization or be referred by Venango County case management.
Children under the age of 18 are excluded.
Service Provider
Family Service & Children’s Aid Society of Venango County
716 E 2nd Street
Oil City, PA 16301
Phone: 814-677-4005
Peer-based recovery support services are developed within the best practice guidelines of Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC). The development of ROSC for individuals, families, and communities experiencing severe alcohol and other drug problems is based on new ideas, new policies and new approaches to service practices.
Peer-based recovery support is the process of giving and receiving non-professional, non-clinical assistance to achieve long-term recovery from alcohol and/or other drug related problems.