When someone you love in Riverside 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 Riverside, from Downtown Riverside to Temecula, traveling in through Ontario International Airport (ONT).
We work with families across the area, including:
If your son or daughter studies at California Baptist University or La Sierra University, we can time the plan around the academic calendar.
Flying in. Ontario International Airport (ONT).
Local crisis and access line. Riverside University Health System HELPLINE and 24/7 Mobile Crisis Response: 951-686-4357.
Public behavioral health. Riverside University Health System, Behavioral Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment.
Treatment court. Riverside County Adult Drug Court (Recovery Opportunity Centers).
Family support. NAMI Western Riverside and Inland Empire Al-Anon Information Service (District 40).
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 Ontario International Airport (ONT) and meets the family before the intervention.
Sober transport to a program near Riverside or out of state.
In Riverside County, public behavioral health services run through Riverside University Health System, Behavioral Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment.
Riverside University Health System answers (800) 499-3008 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for substance use assessments and referrals to county operated treatment sites (source).
Riverside University Health System runs a Family Advocate Program staffed by family members, with free support groups, including substance use family groups. Help line: 800-330-4522 (source).
Riverside County Adult Drug Court (Recovery Opportunity Centers) can connect treatment with a legal case.
NAMI Western Riverside and Inland Empire Al-Anon Information Service (District 40) offer meetings and education for relatives.
In limited cases. California's LPS Act (as amended by SB 43; Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5008 and § 5200 et seq.) can order treatment when strict legal conditions are met. More detail: alcohol intervention in California and drug intervention in California.
Immediate danger: call 911. Emotional crisis: call or text 988.
For Riverside, Riverside University Health System HELPLINE and 24/7 Mobile Crisis Response answers at 951-686-4357, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
See every community on our California interventionists page.
Yes. Our professional interventionists travel to families in Riverside, usually through Ontario International Airport (ONT). Planning starts by phone or video, so your family can begin right away.
Call 911 if anyone is in immediate danger. For Riverside, Riverside University Health System HELPLINE and 24/7 Mobile Crisis Response answers at 951-686-4357, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
Start with Riverside University Health System, Behavioral Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment.
Yes. Riverside County Adult Drug Court (Recovery Opportunity Centers) connects treatment with a criminal case. An intervention can often move someone into treatment before a case starts.
NAMI Western Riverside and Inland Empire Al-Anon Information Service (District 40) 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.
