About Fresh Start – Fairbanks
Fresh Start, in Fairbanks, Alaska, provides comprehensive mental and behavioral health services for youth and adults, including specialized programming for adolescents, young adults, seniors, pregnant and postpartum women, intravenous drug users, and persons with co-occurring disorders. They are state-licensed and offer crisis intervention, medically supervised detox, and inpatient, outpatient, and aftercare programming.
Their inpatient programs allow clients to focus on their recovery in a highly structured and supportive environment featuring round-the-clock clinical supervision. Clients undergoing detox may be prescribed FDA-approved medications to ease withdrawal symptoms and prevent complications. Clients receive medical and mental health assessments, personalized care plans, and complete case management. They also engage in intensive individual, group, and family counseling and robust, age-specific, recovery-focused life skills training addressing topics such as coping, self-care, medication management, anger management, and relapse prevention.
Their outpatient programs encompass multiple levels of care aligned with clients’ evolving needs and include continuing addiction counseling and recovery education. Their aftercare services may involve transitional support, 12 step program facilitation, employment and housing assistance, and referrals for additional services.
Fresh Start works with major insurers, such as Aetna, Cigna, BlueCross BlueShield, Humana, United Healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, and others. Out of network benefits can vary. Contact your provider to confirm coverage. Financial assistance is available.
