Veterans Recovery Resources
Transforming the Culture of Care
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Veterans Recovery Resources (VRR) is a community-based organization which seeks to remove barriers to high-quality mental health and recovery services for Veterans, First Responders and their families. The purpose of our programs is to mobilize resources within, and outside of, the Veteran recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery support from substance abuse and addiction. VRR will achieve this by building capacity for peer recovery support services within its organization and beyond. VRR’s interdisciplinary, trauma-informed and peer-infused outpatient treatment programs serve a vibrant and diverse community of service members, veterans, and their families (SMVF) as well as non-veterans, first responders, and other under-served populations in Southwest Alabama.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Detox & Residential Treatment Program
Vets Recover currently offers state-certified out-patient treatment programs for Veterans, First Responders and their families in an interdisciplinary, trauma-informed practice. Through Community Integration, VRR developed a continually growing fellowship program to keep Veterans, First Responders and their families healthy, productive and engaged over the long-term. Veteran Peer Support and Community Engagement are at the core of our program.
VRR's Detox and Residential Treatment Facility is currently under construction in Mobile, Alabama and expected to be operational by Q1 2024. This will create the only Level III.7 medically monitored detox facility in South Alabama and only Veteran/First Responder-Specific residential evidence-based treatment for substance abuse disorders, post-traumatic stress and other co-occuring mental health issues, featuring Peer Support and Community Reintegration programs.
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic at Vets Recover
Vets Recover offers a comprehensive continuum of professional and peer-based services for military service members, Veterans, First Responders and their families within an interdisciplinary, trauma-informed and community-based outpatient clinic. The CCBHC at Vets Recover meets the federal criteria for CCBHC.
Services presently available include primary medical care (for example, medication management, physical examinations), individual and group therapy or counseling, physical and occupational therapy, and peer support in an outpatient clinic. VRR also offers and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for substance use disorders specifically for Veterans & First Responders.
Recipients of services are also invited to join with other Veterans, First Responders, families, caregivers and survivors in outdoor recreational activities and opportunities to serve the Mobile community.
Community Integration Program
Our peer-to-peer, Veteran-to-Veteran & First Responder program is at the center of recovery. Veterans Recovery Resources works in the community using a network of Veteran Peer Support specialists who have lived the problem and know what works.
We build networks of Veterans, first Responders and their families who support each other over a lifetime and extend the brother- and sisterhood they enjoyed while serving our country. Because the opposite of addiction is connection. Our Community Integration effort is informed by our Community Advisory Council which meets monthly.
Where we work
Awards
Clinical Scholars Team of Fellows 2018
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Affiliations & memberships
Clinical Scholars, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program 2018
Community Leader in Operation Deep DIve, Research to Prevent Death by Suicide in Veteran Populations 2018
SAMHSA SM-21-013 CCBCH Expansion 2021
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of clinic visits provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Military personnel, Emergency responders, Veterans
Related Program
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic at Vets Recover
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Our Outpatient Clinic officially opened in the November 2018 and became a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) in 2021.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Mission of Veterans Recovery is to remove barriers to care, deliver quality integrated health care, and build a better community through recovery and connection.
Our vision is to build a thriving community where Service Members, Veterans, First Responders, and their families are receiving the care needed to accelerate overall well-being. We are committed to building relationships and being intentional with every person who comes through our door.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Implement a novel and cost-efficient strategy for infusing peer support and community engagement into evidence-based mental health care for Veterans.
Facilitate true partnerships and collaboration between all local community Veterans' organizations, promoting a Culture of Health—no single provider can do this alone.
Form strategic alliances and partnerships with leading national Veteran organizations to leverage each others core competencies.
Establish a new local community of warriors who are willing to commit to a different mission together – that of promoting health and equity in their families, neighborhoods, and local communities.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
In 2021, Veterans Recovery Resources became the first Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic in Alabama. We are a by-Veteran, for-Veteran interdisciplinary health team made up of physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists and a team of psychologists, social workers, peer support specialists and marriage, family and individual counselors.
We will open Detox (Level III.7) & Residential Treatment (Level III.5) Programs by Q1 2024.
The majority of our Board of Directors, Veteran Advisory Council, Operations and Clinical Teams are Veterans themselves, with the cultural-competency to serve military populations.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In 2021, VRR received a two year $4Mil CCBHC Expansion Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). We achieved the CCBHC certification standards in December 2021. We have secured our permanent campus, located on a 3-acre parcel in the hospital corridor in mid-town Mobile, Alabama.
Our Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic is open, we are seeing Veterans, First Responders and their families in a state-certified Enhanced Co-Occurring Intensive Outpatient Program. As of February 2022, VRR has served over 650 Veterans, First Responders and their families in our outpatient clinic.
We successfully requested an adjustment in the State Health Plan for 34 beds of residential detox and substance use treatment. We have secured the financing through capital campaign, new market and historic tax credits and are renovating a 19,000sf historic school building in Midtown Mobile to create the first Veteran-Specific Detox & Residential Treatment Facility in Alabama. We anticipate opening our Detox & Residential Treatment Facility in Q1 2024.
Mobile, Alabama is the first location. The goal is to establish additional facilities around the nation in each community where it is needed, drawing from the methods, processes and approaches established at the national coordinating location in Mobile.
Veterans Recovery Resources is committed to accountability and transparency.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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Veterans Recovery Resources
Board of directorsas of 01/19/2024
Col Jerry Steele
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Ret)
Term: 2022 - 2024
Mike Dow
US Army Veteran - Vietnam
Term: 2022 - 2024
Henry Esham, DMD
Dentist
John Kilpatrick (Ex-Officio)
Veterans Recovery Resources
Deborah “Debb” Walker
CMSGT USAF (Ret)
Zach Aggen
MD, USA Health
Mike Fasano
Regions Bank
Robert Kennedy
Boys & Girls Club
James Wheeler
SGM, USA (Ret)
Quindola Crowley
LTC, USA (Ret)
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes