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Roots to Recovery.

Outpatient treatment for substance use and mental health, built around your own recovery goals.

The Roots to Recovery room

Roots to Recovery is a program at The Center for Great Expectations in Somerset. It offers tailored, empowering recovery for substance and mental health issues.

Staff work with each person on their own goals and needs. This happens at a pace the client sets. The program fits within the center's continuum of care that helps families.

A child gains stability when a parent gets support. The program is part of a place that has helped families since 1998.

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What to expect

A judgement-free environment where men and women can receive treatment and continue to work, attend school and be with their family.

Roots to Recovery holds dual licensure for substance use and mental health treatment. It is outpatient, so men and women come for treatment while continuing to work, attend school, and be with their family. Ask the program about the current schedule and what a typical week looks like.

Holistic and Individualized Care

Your plan is yours. Staff build person-centered recovery plans with each client, tailored to that person's needs. Treatment looks beyond symptoms to emotional, physical, social, and spiritual qualities. The belief behind it: treat the person, not just the problem.

Trauma-Informed and Empowerment Approach

The program uses a Trauma C. A. R. E. © model. That means the impacts of trauma are understood and considered throughout treatment. The setting is safe and respectful, and clients are supported in building resilience and empowerment to claim the lives they are meant to lead.

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Collaborative and Peer-Supported Recovery

Peer recovery specialists work alongside a dedicated team of professionals. This suggests treatment is collaborative. People in recovery bring their own experiences. That perspective helps others. You can learn from someone who has been there. It shows recovery is possible. The team includes peers and professionals. Together they support each person's goals.

Substance Use/Co-Occurring Treatment

Roots to Recovery accepts Aetna, AmeriHealth-SUD, Horizon Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New Jersey, IDRC/DUI Funding, Medicaid, Medicare, Optum, Oscar Health, Oxford Health, United Healthcare, Presumptive Eligibility (PE), and State funding. Contact us to talk through your coverage and next steps.

Hear from our clients.

A client said other programs made them feel like just another addict. Here, they feel staff take time to understand them as an individual. Staff ask about their goals and how to reach them. Another client said one-on-one counseling means a lot. They see the big heart behind the staff. Staff let the client set the pace.

What this looks like in practice

Days in an outpatient program are paced around appointments, group time, and one-on-one sessions, and clients keep living at home, working, or attending school between visits. A parent in treatment can expect a plan written with them, not for them. Ask the program what the current daily schedule looks like.

When a parent gets steady treatment, children feel it at home: calmer mornings, someone who is present at pickup, routines that hold. Recovery work is for the adult, but the whole household lives with the result. Treatment that considers trauma and the whole person supports a parent in being there for their child.

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