Carbonate Recovery Center (CRC) has officially completed its first full year of operation—an important milestone and a meaningful achievement for our clinic and the community we serve.

Growing Our Team to Better Serve the Community

Over the past year, CRC welcomed two new clinicians. Paige McNeil, LPC, serves as our bilingual clinician. Fluent in English and Spanish, she brings a strong connection to the Spanish-speaking community, and her approachable, compassionate style helps clients feel supported from the very first visit.

Keri Nemeroff, LMSW, brings extensive experience working with children and adolescents, including roles with the Boise School District and Intermountain Hospital in an inpatient setting with teens. She is deeply committed to supporting adolescents navigating mental health challenges and has been instrumental in identifying new ways CRC can expand programming for this population.

Clinical Expertise and Evidence-Based Care

Today, CRC employs eight clinicians with training across a wide range of evidence-based approaches, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma and PTSD treatment, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, grief counseling, and bio-regulation therapy (BRT). Our team is flexible and collaborative, tailoring care to meet each client’s unique needs and goals.

Expanding Access Through Grants and Free Community Support

CRC was awarded two grants over the past year to help clients pay for services. With this support, CRC provided more than 113 free sessions for individuals—equivalent to $8,940 in care for those in need. We also offer the Wellness and Recovery Group every Tuesday evening at no cost to the public. Since January 2025, the group has welcomed 153 attendees (with some individuals attending weekly).

Our goal remains the same: reach more individuals who need support and expand access to free or discounted treatment. However, with recent changes to Medicaid and Idaho Supreme Court funding for treatment courts, resources for these critical programs are decreasing or, in some cases, being eliminated. Increasingly, continued operation depends on community-based support.

Why Treatment Courts Matter

Treatment courts are a valuable resource in our community. They provide the judicial system with an alternative to incarceration for individuals with a substance use disorder—an illness that is not a crime yet often leads people into legal trouble. Without options like treatment court, some individuals may face prison sentences of three to five years (or longer).

Participants in treatment court typically engage in outpatient treatment for 18 months or longer, meet with a judge weekly, complete random urinalysis (UA) testing for drugs and alcohol, and attend at least weekly support groups. This evidence-based structure helps people recover while remaining in the community—highly supervised, working, staying with family, and moving toward stable, productive lives.

CRC needs your help to keep these programs available to those who need them most. Please watch the video below to learn more about treatment courts and the recovery services offered to individuals living with substance use disorder—and consider how you can support this work in our community.

KTVB—Idaho treatment courts face an end as budget cuts threaten programs that keep people out of prison

Idaho’s 70 treatment courts are on the line as budget cuts loom, programs that keep people out of prison and help them become self-sufficient.