Blue Ridge First Step Mission


The mission of First Step is to provide you with compassionate, comprehensive, and high-quality, outpatient treatment for chemical dependency, a disease that affects each individual physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you are like most people who enter treatment for an addiction, you are feeling overwhelmed by the problems you are experiencing in your life. You may not even realize the role your dependency to alcohol or drugs has had in perpetuating these problems. Being in an intensive, highly structured program will help you make the changes you need to make to sustain recovery.

Asking for help is the First Step to feeling better.

Chemical dependency also affects all the people in your life. Your family members and significant others have been suffering and need assistance to understand and process their experience, so that they can get well, too. First Step has a weekly family program to educate and support those people who are most important to you, and help start the healing process in the family where the addiction has inevitably caused major damage.

The primary goal of this program is to help you develop the coping strategies you will need to resume a productive and successful life without the use of mood-altering substances. To accomplish this, First Step uses group therapy, educational groups, assignments, and involvement of the family. Please ask questions or express concerns whenever you have them. It has been our experience that you will get out of this program what you put into it.