I am a Senior Outreach Coordinator for BrightView Health, which provides comprehensive outpatient alcohol and substance use treatment. My markets include the greater Roanoke and Lynchburg areas. In addition to connecting individuals to treatment to save lives, I collaborate with community partners to coordinate services and resources to rebuild lives.
“Five years ago, we set out to be more than a treatment center—we aimed to be a beacon of hope,” said Stacy Martin, Outreach Coordinator at the Piqua Center.
BrightView Health’s Timothy Giddens joins host Emily Edmonds to break down the stigma of addiction and share how BrightView is helping people across Hampton Roads reclaim their lives. Learn about their unique three-pronged approach — Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), personalized counseling, and wraparound social support — and hear powerful statistics showing real recovery success. Whether you or someone you love is struggling, this conversation offers hope, help, and a path forward.
WCPO 9 is committed to finding solutions, hosting our fourth community conversation Monday to connect advocates, experts and neighbors looking to tackle substance abuse and addiction in our region.
“The BrightView team is committed to helping people recover and communities thrive,” Community Outreach Manager Orlando Howard said in a press release. “Preventing overdose deaths is a top concern, and we need to continue to spread awareness about substance use disorder and (that) outpatient addiction treatment is successful.”
“They’re not alone battling addiction and there are people here to truly help them,” said Hines. “We’re all in this position, we wouldn’t work to help people battling addiction if we weren’t here to help them. If we were going to judge them, we’re in the wrong field. I’m not here to judge my patients, I’m here to help them. Everything they tell us here is confidential.”
A new documentary released by BrightView Health shines a light on the growing issue of addiction. BrightView’s Medical Director Dr. Gilbert Schmidt and the Film’s Producer David McDonald discuss the documentary, Addiction Ultimatum: Jail, Death, Recovery that premieres on October 30th from 7pm-9pm, inviting people to join to help remove the stigmas that surrounds this devastating disease.
The number of people dying from fatal drug overdoses is dropping nationwide, as well as in Virginia and North Carolina, CDC data shows. April 2024 is 15 percent lower than April 2023 in Virginia, according to the preliminary data.
We come together, one, to honor those individuals that are in recovery from substance use disorders, as well as the different service providers that make recovery possible,” Jewel White, community outreach manager for Brightview Health, said. “Today, we have a lot of community agencies, we have some probation departments, some courts that are present here. We have representation of all different types of entities that support individuals that are in recovery.”
CareSource partnered with Brightview Health and SOAR WV to bring Save a Life Day to Hopkins County on Sept. 26. Over 300 counties across the country joined in this event designed to distribute naloxone and provide aid to those in need.