Recovery Alliance is the Southwest's only recovery community organization. Recovery community organizations offer services to people needing support for substance use disorders by people with lived experience. We are committed to challenging and eliminating the stigma surrounding substance use disorder, ensuring that those affected receive understanding and support. Services are provided by specially trained, state-certified peer recovery coaches. Peer support workers are often individuals who have experienced similar challenges and have successfully navigated their personal recovery, providing motivational and compassionate support, guidance, and inspiration to others. Research suggests that peer support can lead to improved well-being, smaller hospital stays, stronger support networks, and better self-esteem. Peer support aims to inspire hope and a belief in the possibility of recovery and a fulfilling life. It helps individuals gain confidence and skills to manage their own lives and challenges.
Peer support considers the whole person, including their mental, emotional, and social well-being. It emphasizes positive aspects and abilities of individuals, rather than focusing solely on deficits. Listening, offering encouragement, and validating feelings can be crucial and peer support. Peer support can take place in group settings, where people can connect, share, and learn from each other. It also connects people with others who understand and can combat feelings of loneliness and isolation. Certified peer support specialists are also trained to broker community services to allow access to a broader range of services to help individuals accomplish their personal recovery support plan. While peer support can be very helpful, it's important to remember that it's not a substitute for professional therapy or counseling when a mental health diagnosis is made.
Recovery Alliance is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Peer Recovery Support Services (CAPRSS). This accreditation identifies us as providing support excellence in the delivery of peer recovery support services. This accreditation recognizes that our services are based on recovery principles; fair, balanced, contemporary, and focused on the real world; inclusive of information and data from peers, leadership, and recovery communities served; respectful and authentic; designed around organizational function and mission; and based on strengths, opportunities for improvement, and emerging evidence-based practices.
The Opioid Drop-In Center is a welcoming, low-barrier facility designed to provide individuals affected by opioid use with immediate access to supportive services, care coordination, and community resources. The center operates as a safe and nonjudgmental space where individuals can receive guidance, build relationships, and take meaningful steps toward improved well-being.
Core Features of the Center:
This approach fosters dignity, trust, and engagement—supporting individuals wherever they are in their journey and empowering them with resources and relationships that promote long-term wellness and stability. Street outreach services for substance use disorders are designed to meet people where they are—literally and figuratively. These programs aim to engage individuals who may be experiencing homelessness, isolation, or disconnection from traditional health care systems, and who are struggling with substance use.
Here’s what these services typically include:
A Naloxone Regional Distribution Hub for Region 10 in Texas serves as a centralized point for the storage, coordination, and dissemination of naloxone—an opioid overdose reversal medication—across the counties within that public health region. These hubs are part of the broader Texas Overdose Data to Action (TODA) initiative, which aims to reduce opioid-related fatalities by increasing access to life-saving interventions. We provide Distribution and education service to the following counties: El Paso, Culberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Brewster, and Presidio. In Region 10, which includes El Paso and surrounding areas, the hub typically partners with local health departments, community health clinics, and recovery support organizations. It receives naloxone supplies through state and federal programs like the Texas Targeted Opioid Response (TTOR) and redistributes them to frontline providers, including first responders, harm reduction groups, and community outreach teams.
These hubs may also:
Interested parties can request any amount of naloxone and training at no cost. Contact us to schedule an appointment at NaloxoneRegion10@recoveryalliance.net.
We foresee a community with less social harm where everyone can find hope and recovery.
Hours of Opertion:
Monday - Friday
8:00AM- 4:00PM
Punto de Partida
Salvavida
800 Montana Ave.
El Paso, TX. 79902
Sanaremos
8500 Dyer • Suite 34
El Paso, TX. 79904
Recovery Alliance provides peer recovery residential support at Casa Vida for men and Alas Nuevas for women A 90-day peer recovery support residential program is a structured, immersive environment designed to help individuals overcome substance use disorders through peer-led guidance, community, and accountability.
Key Features of the 90-Day Residential Program:
After completing the residential phase, many individuals move into sober living housing, which offers a more independent but still supportive environment.
At Casa Vida:
This continuum of care—from intensive residential treatment to sober living—has proven highly effective. Casa Vida reports that over 70% of participants remain abstinent six months after completing the program.
Re-entry peer support services are designed to help individuals transition from incarceration back into the community, using the power of shared lived experience, with a focus on reducing recidivism and promoting stability. Our program partners with the El Paso County Reentry Support Services. local county courts, and other community services providers to create a support network showing measurable improvements in employment, reduced arrests, and peer influence outcomes. These services are typically delivered by certified peer support specialists—people who have successfully navigated the justice system and are now trained to support others on a similar path.
In-reach refers to peer support that begins before an individual is released from jail or prison. After completing the residential phase, many individuals move into sober living housing, which offers a more independent but still supportive environment.
Key features include:
Once released, individuals may enter residential reentry programs that offer structured housing and wraparound peer support.
These programs typically include:
The Peer Recovery Allies, at Project Punto de Partida, aim to remove barriers, smash stigma, and secure an environment where everyone has the opportunity and the ability to recover through outreach, diversion, risk reduction, and presenting a positive face and voice of recovery.
