When someone you love in Wilmington 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 Wilmington, from Newark to Brandywine Hundred, traveling in through Philadelphia International Airport (PHL).
We work with families across the area, including:
If your son or daughter studies at University of Delaware, Wilmington University or Widener University, we can time the plan around the academic calendar.
Flying in. Philadelphia International Airport (PHL).
Local crisis and access line. Mobile Crisis Intervention Services, Northern Delaware (24/7): 302-577-2484.
Public behavioral health. Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH).
Treatment court. Delaware Superior Court Drug Court Program (New Castle County).
Family support. NAMI Delaware and Delaware 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 Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) and meets the family before the intervention.
Sober transport to a program near Wilmington or out of state.
In New Castle County, public behavioral health services run through Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH).
Delaware Superior Court runs a Drug Court Program in New Castle County that brings together prosecutors, defenders and counseling agencies to move eligible drug cases into treatment sooner (source).
The state's Fernhook Bridge Clinic in nearby New Castle offers walk-in substance use screening, free naloxone, addiction medication and a peer recovery specialist, with no appointment and regardless of ability to pay (source).
Delaware's free harm reduction vending machine in Wilmington, at Brandywine Counseling & Community Services, 2713 Lancaster Ave., dispenses naloxone with no questions asked (source).
Delaware Superior Court Drug Court Program (New Castle County) can connect treatment with a legal case.
NAMI Delaware and Delaware Al-Anon Family Groups offer meetings and education for relatives.
In limited cases. Delaware's involuntary treatment law for substance abuse (Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, §§ 2211 to 2223) can order treatment when strict legal conditions are met. More detail: how we handle alcohol interventions across Delaware and how we plan drug interventions in Delaware.
Immediate danger: call 911. Emotional crisis: call or text 988.
For Wilmington, Mobile Crisis Intervention Services, Northern Delaware (24/7) answers at 302-577-2484, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
See every community on our Delaware interventionists page.
Yes. Our professional interventionists travel to families in Wilmington and New Castle County, usually through Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). Planning starts by phone or video, so your family can begin right away.
Call 911 if anyone is in immediate danger. For Wilmington, Mobile Crisis Intervention Services, Northern Delaware (24/7) answers at 302-577-2484, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
Start with Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH).
Yes. Delaware Superior Court Drug Court Program (New Castle County) connects treatment with a criminal case. An intervention can often move someone into treatment before a case starts.
NAMI Delaware and Delaware 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.
