Freedom House Recovery Center

Who We Are

Freedom House is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) organization that provides

residential crisis services, including substance abuse detoxification, and mental health crisis services
outpatient substance abuse and mental health services
community support
transitional living
and extended care

to promote

recovery from the disease of addiction
stabilization and management of mental illness
recovery and management of dual diagnosis (addiction and mental illness).

For more than 30 years our mission has been to help alcoholics and drug addicts and people with mental illnesses by providing the tools necessary to lead a life of recovery and to become productive members of the community. Freedom House is concerned with the emotional, physical, spiritual and social needs of those we serve. Our staff provides a therapeutic atmosphere in which growth and recovery become attainable goals. Our program goals are to provide:

a structured, positive environment based on the 12-step recovery model, evidence based treatment / rehabilitation, and case management
appropriate, available and accessible treatment to recovering addicts that will enable them to become productive members of society
support and stabilization treatment for people with mental illnesses to help them manage their illness and fulfill life goals
life skills programming to help strengthen each person in our program
a response to community need for expanded services.

Why We Care

The 2007 Triangle United Way "Snapshot of the State of Health and Human Services" estimates that 84,700 people in the Triangle area abuse drugs/alcohol and more than 293,000 have a mental illness. That is, roughly one person in 20 abuses drugs or alcohol, and one in six has a mental illness.
Recent studies suggest that 50% of individuals with a severe mental illness are also impacted by substance abuse.
Statistics indicate that nearly 45,000 people in the Triangle region may be dually diagnosed.
There are more than 2,600 Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) arrests annually in Orange, Durham, Person and Chatham counties—averaging seven or more every day.
Substance abuse is directly connected with indigence, unemployment, family disease, adolescent pregnancy and school dropout, crime, chronic illness and death.
Substance abuse costs Orange County residents over $180 million every year, and costs Durham County residents more than $370 million.
Mental illness afflicts 22% of North Carolina's population and costs the state $4.7 billion each year.

Freedom House responds to the needs of individuals with substance abuse addiction and mental illness by providing crisis stabilization, long and short term residential programs, social setting and non-hospital medical detoxification, halfway house programs, outpatient psychiatric services and intensive outpatient programs.

Non-discimination

No one will be denied admission to any of the programs of Freedom House Recovery Center because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, or disability, age (except as prescribed by our state licensure), or sexual orientation, except where specific conditions are excluded for non-discriminatory reasons.

It is also the policy of Freedom House Recovery Center to provide equal employment opportunity to all people without regard to political or religious affiliations, race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, age or other non-merit factor.

Freedom House is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities for our Community Housing, Crisis Stabilization, Detoxification, Drug Court Treatment and Outpatient Treatment (Alcohol and Other Drugs/Addictions) programs.