Baptist Behavioral Health Care is helping patients on the path to recovery

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)-

Recovery from drug or alcohol dependency or mental health struggles starts with connections.

And Baptist Behavioral Health Care in Columbus is working to help people make those connections.

Baptist Behavioral sponsored a Recovery Resource Fair Tuesday at the Lyceum at Lee.

Penny Wallingford with Baptist says the event came as a response to people looking for resources to help family members struggling with addiction.

The resources are there, but people don’t always know where to look. This event brought them together in one place.

Wallingford says having that continued support is vital to successful recovery.

“We’re just actually one step in treatment at Baptist Behavioral Health. We do a typically 3 to 5 day medical detox, but then people need to understand and be educated that treatment is ongoing, and that these people here, like rehab, sober living, many different support groups within our community, help them continue to get that treatment that they need, so that they’ll have success.

More than 30 organizations were repreented at today’s recovery fair.