Employment support
Recovery and opportunity belong together.
Work can offer structure, purpose, connection, and greater financial stability. At SMRC, employment support begins with your goals, your strengths, and your recovery pathway.
Our approach is voluntary, person-centered, and evidence-informed. We help people explore practical next steps toward work while recognizing that recovery and employment do not follow one timeline for everyone.
Contact SMRC for current availability.
Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Please call to make an appointment and confirm available support.
For people exploring work
Start with your goals.
Whether you are returning to work, considering a new direction, building confidence, or simply exploring what is possible, SMRC can help you think through your next step.
Employment support may include:
Identifying your interests, strengths, experience, and work preferences.
Exploring readiness for work at a pace that supports your recovery goals.
Preparing for workplace expectations, communication, and job-search activities.
Connecting with workforce-development, training, reentry, vocational, and employment-support resources when requested.
Exploring recovery-friendly employers and work environments as opportunities and relationships become available.
Following up on participant-directed referrals and next steps.
We do not require one recovery pathway, one timeline, or one definition of success. Your goals may include looking for a job now, preparing for future employment, pursuing education or training, addressing barriers, or learning more about available resources.
Our approach
Practical support, shaped around your recovery.
Research on employment support in recovery emphasizes individualized services, flexible timing, practical job-readiness support, continued connection, and collaboration across recovery, workforce, and employer systems.1 SMRC applies these principles in a non-clinical, peer-centered setting.
Your goals lead
You decide what you want to work toward. We begin with your interests, strengths, experience, work preferences, and recovery priorities—not a one-size-fits-all plan.
Build a realistic next step
We can help you identify a manageable next action, such as exploring training, preparing for a job search, understanding workplace expectations, or connecting with a resource that fits your goals.
Stay connected
When you request it, SMRC can support follow-up on referrals, help you consider workplace challenges, and continue to connect you with recovery and community resources as you move forward.
For employers and workforce partners
Help make work more recovery-friendly.
Employers and workforce partners can play an important role in creating workplaces where people are treated with dignity and have a meaningful opportunity to contribute. Recovery-ready workplace practices can expand opportunity, reduce stigma, encourage help-seeking, and support employees who are working to maintain recovery.2
SMRC welcomes conversation with employers, workforce-development providers, job-training programs, reentry and vocational-service organizations, and community partners that are interested in:
- Learning about recovery-friendly and recovery-supportive workplace practices.
- Reducing stigma and improving understanding of substance use disorder and recovery.
- Exploring fair-chance or second-chance employment practices where appropriate.
- Sharing appropriate job, training, or workforce-resource information.
- Building participant-directed referral pathways and practical community connections.
You do not have to figure it out alone.
A job search, a career change, or a return to work can feel like a lot to carry. Start with a conversation. Together, we can identify a next step that respects your recovery, your goals, and your choices.
Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Please call to make an appointment.
Learn more
- Recovery and employment: SAMHSA, Substance Use Disorders Recovery with a Focus on Employment.
- For employers: U.S. Department of Labor, Recovery-Ready Workplace Resource Hub.