About Us

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 Peer support is the foundation of our model. 

• The Center for Impact provides non-clinical, relationship-based peer support through Peer Navigators and team members with lived experience.

• Our peer team offers engagement, recovery coaching, care coordination, and systems navigation across trauma recovery, mental health, and substance use support. Peer services are non-clinical and are designed to complement, not replace, licensed treatment and clinical care.

• As the organization grows, The Center for Impact is building pathways to expand credentialed peer roles (NCCPSS)  in alignment with regulatory and funding requirements.

Family stability is central to long-term healing and community well-being.

• Within the Impact ecosystem, maternal and parenting support exists to address the intersection of recovery, mental health, and family systems—particularly for families impacted by trauma, substance use, and child welfare involvement.

• This pillar recognizes that recovery often occurs alongside parenting responsibilities, reunification efforts, or caregiving roles. By centering maternal mental health, parenting capacity, and family preservation, we support pathways that promote safe reunification, strengthen protective factors, and reduce the risk of repeated system involvement.

• Our model intentionally supports mothers, grandparents, and kinship caregivers navigating foster care, reunification processes, or family stabilization, ensuring families are supported as partners in healing rather than treated as barriers to recovery.

 Reducing Risk by Strengthening Protective Factors Early

• Youth prevention and enrichment are essential to breaking generational cycles of trauma, substance use, and system involvement. This pillar exists to support children and adolescents who are impacted by family instability, parental recovery, or community-level stressors.

• By prioritizing early support, emotional development, and safe environments, we help reduce long-term risk while strengthening resilience, connection, and healthy development. Youth-focused prevention reinforces family recovery efforts and contributes to more stable outcomes across the household.

 The Structure That Holds Healing in Place

• At The Center for Impact, stability is the condition that allows healing to last. We recognize that progress in recovery, family health, and personal growth cannot be sustained when life is defined by disruption, isolation, or constant crisis.

• In our ecosystem, stability means having consistent connection, predictable support, and a sense of grounding that allows individuals and families to function beyond survival mode. It is the steady presence that holds people between milestones—when treatment intensity changes, systems feel overwhelming, or motivation wavers.

• This pillar exists because we understand that healing does not happen in moments alone; it happens in continuity. Stability provides the relational and structural consistency that keeps people engaged, supported, and moving forward even when life is complex.

• By treating stability as essential—not optional—we create an environment where progress can take root, families can remain intact, and long-term outcomes become possible.

 Evidence-Based Care Within a Coordinated Ecosystem

• Clinical interventions exist to address the depth and complexity of trauma, mental health challenges, and substance use—needs that cannot be resolved through willpower, support, or stability alone.

• This pillar anchors the ecosystem in licensed, evidence-based treatment, ensuring healing is supported by clinical rigor as well as compassion. Within the Impact model, clinical care provides the therapeutic structure necessary for regulation, insight, and recovery while remaining connected to the relational and practical supports that sustain progress beyond the treatment setting.

• Clinical interventions are intentionally integrated through strategic partnerships with licensed providers, allowing individuals to access appropriate levels of care without fragmentation or disconnection from the broader ecosystem. As funding and capacity expand, this model is designed to scale responsibly—deepening clinical integration in alignment with regulatory requirements and community need.

• Clinical care brings depth to the work. 

• Integration ensures that depth leads to durability.

Reducing Fragmentation Through Coordinated Access

• Systems navigation exists because access alone does not equal outcomes. Individuals and families navigating trauma, recovery, and instability are often required to move through complex, disconnected systems that unintentionally undermine progress.

• Within the Impact ecosystem, systems navigation is designed to coordinate—not duplicate—care. This pillar aligns healthcare, behavioral health, social services, and community-based supports so individuals are not left managing multiple systems while trying to heal.

• Navigation is intentionally integrated alongside peer support, stability, and clinical care, ensuring that engagement is sustained as individuals move across systems. As funding and partnerships expand, this approach allows coordination to scale responsibly while remaining responsive to local systems and regulatory requirements.

• Effective navigation keeps people connected, reduces drop-off, and ensures progress in one area is not undone by barriers in another.

From Stability to Sustainable Independence

• Workforce development exists because long-term recovery and family stability are deeply connected to economic security and purpose. Progress cannot be sustained when individuals remain disconnected from opportunity, income, or meaningful work.

• Within the Impact ecosystem, workforce development is positioned after stability and systems alignment—ensuring individuals are supported, ready, and not prematurely pushed into employment. This pillar connects healing to sustainability by aligning recovery with pathways toward skill-building, employment, and economic mobility.

• Our model is designed to engage employers, workforce partners, and community-based opportunities through collaboration rather than isolation. As funding and partnerships expand, workforce pathways can scale responsibly to meet community needs while reinforcing recovery, family health, and long-term independence.

• Economic mobility is not treated as a finish line, but as a reinforcing force that strengthens every outcome before it.

 Maintaining Connection Beyond Formal Care

• Community engagement exists because healing does not occur solely within programs or appointments. Many individuals are reached, supported, and retained through trusted connection long before—and long after—formal services are in place.

• Within the Impact ecosystem, community engagement and harm reduction extend support beyond structured settings, reinforcing safety, trust, and access to care. This pillar allows the model to remain responsive to real-life conditions, meeting people where they are while maintaining clear pathways back into recovery, stability, and coordinated support.

• Approached as relationship-based and partner-facing, this work strengthens community-level outcomes without isolating individuals from the broader ecosystem. As partnerships and funding expand, this pillar is designed to scale responsibly—reinforcing engagement, reducing risk, and sustaining continuity of care.

 Integrity, Accountability, and a Voluntary Anchor

• To ensure the Impact ecosystem is sustained with integrity, accountability, and care—both internally and within the communities it serves. Stewardship grounds the model in transparent leadership, responsible use of resources, and evidence-informed decision-making, ensuring growth is guided by outcomes rather than expansion alone.

• Spiritual support and discipleship are offered within this pillar as a voluntary, supportive anchor, grounded in scripturally supported, biblical principles. Guided by the belief that people should belong before they believe, spiritual care emphasizes welcome, dignity, and relationship as the foundation for discipleship, spiritual growth, and development.

• Participation in spiritual support is never required and does not replace clinical treatment, recovery supports, or other services. Instead, it provides space for reflection, meaning, and faith-informed formation for those who desire it—complementing the broader ecosystem in a manner that is ethical, inclusive, and funder-safe.

• Together, stewardship and spiritual support protect trust, reinforce ethical practice, and ensure the work remains durable, values-aligned, and responsive over time.