Built from lived experience.
Not from theory.

Clinical treatment addresses the substance. Peer recovery coaching addresses the person. Certified Peer Recovery Coaches — people with lived experience of addiction and recovery — walk alongside clients from crisis to stability in a way that no clinical service can replicate.

RHSH's peer coaches are Certified Peer Recovery Coaches (CPRCs) with documented lived experience. They provide individual and group coaching that is faith-based, non-clinical, and consistent — the same coach assigned through 90 days. Not a rotating staff. A relationship.

One in three adults in recovery faces food insecurity in their first 90 days. Basic needs instability — hunger, inadequate hygiene, lack of essential supplies — is one of the most common and least-addressed barriers to sustained recovery engagement.

RHSH Colorado provides food assistance, hygiene supplies, and warm referrals to community food and clothing resources. We partner with Walmart Spark Good registries, Feeding America partners, and local pantries to ensure our clients have immediate stability — the foundation that makes everything else possible.

Housing instability is one of the strongest predictors of relapse. Seventy-two percent of adults discharged from treatment lack stable housing. RHSH Colorado provides housing navigation, transitional housing referrals via MOU partner agreements, and 30/60/90-day stability monitoring — because housing is a recovery issue.

We navigate the system so clients don't have to navigate it alone. Housing referrals, transitional housing connections, MOU partner relationships with local providers, and consistent follow-up to confirm placement and monitor stability. We don't close the case when the client gets a roof. We follow up to make sure it holds.

Substance use disorders and mental health conditions are deeply intertwined. Most people in recovery have underlying mental health needs that, if unaddressed, become the triggers for relapse. RHSH Colorado does not provide clinical mental health services — but we ensure every client who needs them gets connected and stays connected.

We provide warm handoffs — not referral sheets — to licensed mental health providers via formal MOU agreements. Our clinical director, Dr. Alfonso Cappa-Meléndez, PsyD, oversees all mental health linkage protocols. Within 14 days of a referral, we confirm the connection was made. If it wasn't, we try again.

Sustained recovery requires a life worth staying sober for. Employment, financial stability, and the practical skills of daily living are not afterthoughts — they are the infrastructure of a recovery that holds. RHSH Colorado's employment and life skills programming bridges the gap between sobriety and reintegration.

We offer workshops on employment readiness, resume building, financial literacy, and daily living skills. Our corporate relations board member, James Nguyen, MBA, brings fourteen years of corporate community affairs experience and direct employer relationships. We do not just prepare clients to apply — we open doors.

We believe Jesus Christ is the one who makes recovery truly possible. Not the program. Not the peer coach. Not the stable housing — though all of these matter. Him. Faith Foundations is our Bible study and discipleship program for anyone in recovery who wants to know Jesus — or know Him more deeply.

Faith Foundations is offered to every RHSH Colorado client — freely, without pressure, and without any requirement to participate. Our services are available to every person in recovery regardless of their faith background. But for those who want to go deeper — who are asking the questions that peer coaching alone cannot answer — this program is where we go there together.

Led by Rev. Tamara J. Holloway (M.Div., Denver Seminary, ordained minister) and rooted in Scripture, Faith Foundations is a structured 8-week Bible study and faith formation experience. It is not a church service. It is not a theological lecture. It is an honest, accessible encounter with the Gospel for people in the middle of the hardest thing they have ever done.