When someone you love in Gainesville will not accept help, a professionally led intervention gives your family a calm, prepared way to ask.
A drug and alcohol interventionist prepares the family, arranges treatment in advance and leads the conversation that asks a loved one to accept help. We do this for families in Gainesville, from Haile Plantation to Micanopy, traveling in through Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV).
We work with families across the area, including:
If your son or daughter studies at University of Florida or Santa Fe College, we can time the plan around the academic calendar.
Flying in. Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV).
Public behavioral health. Meridian Behavioral Healthcare.
Treatment court. Alachua County Drug Court.
Family support. NAMI Gainesville and Florida North Area Al-Anon Family Groups.
Emergency. Call 911 if a loved one is in immediate danger. Call or text 988 for an emotional crisis.
Who is in the room, what each person says, which program holds a bed. See the full steps.
Your interventionist flies into Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) and meets the family before the intervention.
Sober transport to a program near Gainesville or out of state.
In Alachua County, public behavioral health services run through Meridian Behavioral Healthcare.
Alachua County Court Services, a county department, supervises participants in the local Drug Court program as they complete court ordered treatment (source).
Alachua County Drug Court can connect treatment with a legal case.
NAMI Gainesville and Florida North Area Al-Anon Family Groups offer meetings and education for relatives.
In limited cases. The Marchman Act (Fla. Stat. ch. 397, criteria at § 397.675) can order treatment when strict legal conditions are met. More detail: alcohol intervention in Florida and drug intervention in Florida.
Immediate danger: call 911. Emotional crisis: call or text 988.
See every community on our Florida interventionists page.
Yes. Our professional interventionists travel to families in Gainesville and Alachua County, usually through Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV). Planning starts by phone or video, so your family can begin right away.
Start with Meridian Behavioral Healthcare.
Yes. Alachua County Drug Court connects treatment with a criminal case. An intervention can often move someone into treatment before a case starts.
NAMI Gainesville and Florida North Area Al-Anon Family Groups offer meetings and education for relatives.
One confidential conversation with a professional interventionist. No pressure, no obligation. We'll help you find the right next step for your family.
