Understanding Recovery and Supporting Our Community

In September, we recognize both National Recovery Month and National Suicide Prevention Month. The path to recovery is one filled with hope and resilience.

Statistics show that the recovery process is significant:

• 7 in 10 adults who have experienced a substance use problem consider themselves to be in recovery.

• 2 in 3 adults who have faced a mental health challenge consider themselves to be in recovery.

At Verdant, we are proud to partner with many organizations that lead the way in providing comprehensive recovery support and harm reduction in South Snohomish County. Advocate Recovery Services and Sound Pathways are two that we are highlighting this month.

Advocate Recovery Services (ARS) ARS offers a range of services designed to support both mental health and substance use recovery for our community:

• Mental Health Support: Services include counseling, mental health first aid, psychiatric care facilitation, and access to otherwise hard-to-reach services.

• Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Support: ARS provides recovery coaching, peer counseling, treatment facilitation, and partnerships with leading SUD agencies.

• Healthcare Access: Services include wound care, chronic disease management, and preventative care, along with referrals and transportation assistance.

• Food Security: ARS partners with others to provide on-site meal service once a week and in community three times a week.

Sound Pathways is an evidence-based organization with a focus on harm reduction that offers a range of substance use prevention and intervention services. They encourage safe and responsible use while connecting participants to counseling and treatment services when they choose to engage. They offer syringe exchange and disposal, clean supplies, safe smoking devices, naloxone training and distribution, fentanyl test strips, drug analysis testing, wound care kits, and safe sex supplies.

Together with our community partners, we strive to create a future where recovery and suicide prevention is possible for all. Both ARS and Sound Pathways recognize that recovery goes beyond treatment—it’s about addressing the root causes of mental health and addiction to support long-term wellness.

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Verdant is also pleased to partner with the following organizations in delivering mental health services to our community.

• ACCESS Project

• Advocates Recovery Services

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Snohomish County

• Center for Human Services

• Compass Health

• Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County

• Edmonds College Foundation

• Edmonds School District

• Inside Health Institute

• Korean Community Service Center

• Latino Educational Training Institute

• NAMI Sno-Isle

• Parent Trust for Washington Children

• Project Girl Mentoring Program

• Support 7

• Sound Pathways

• Therapeutic Health Services

• The Clearwater School – Wellbeing Youth and Family Center

• Washington West African Center