As the behavioral health industry continues to shift towards the medical model of “evidence-based” addiction treatment, faith-based treatment organizations - including Christian, non-denominational and interfaith institutions - are increasingly scrambling for resources.

Unfortunately, this trend is also evident in the software solutions available for behavioral health organizations today. While it’s easy to find an EHR or EMR that focuses on the specific needs of medically-minded addiction treatment, it is increasingly difficult to find a software solution that is a good fit for faith-based addiction treatment. 

Fortunately, Behave Health was designed to serve all addiction treatment centers, whether they’re operating on a medical model or a faith-based model. Today, we’ll look at the specific needs of Christian and faith-based recovery and rehab centers and examine how Behave Health is an ideal fit for these types of organizations.  

Behave Health is An Affordable EHR Option for Faith-Based Christian Addiction Treatment Centers

Many - if not most - Christian and faith-based addiction treatment centers are nonprofit institutions. This means that getting a great value for a low cost is an important factor when shopping for software. 

Fortunately, Behave Health offers competitively low-cost month-to-month plans and is one of the few behavioral health software suites that gives customers a free trial account so that you can “test drive” our solution before committing the time and resources needed to implement.

Enterprise Resource Planning for All Employment Education and Career Pathways Job Training Programs Common to Christian and Faith-Based Addiction Treatment Organizations

While many addiction treatment programs feature jobs training and career counseling as a key component of rehabilitation, Christian and faith-based organizations tend to adopt and expand on this model in a way that secular programs do not. It is not uncommon to find large-scale business operations underway at faith-based recovery and/or addiction treatment organizations, such as car washes, house painting, landscaping, farming, second-hand retail, and auto shops, to name a few. 

Most behavioral health EHRs have no capabilities to help with these sorts of enterprises, but Behave Health has several features that are suited to support faith-based addiction treatment employment programming.

Behave Health’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite organizes all of the property management, human resources and vendor management tasks that come with employment programming. Our ERP can also help with scheduling shifts, tracking program attendance, assigning tasks and managing task accountability. Each of these features is available on our mobile-first design, which means that you and your “employees” or volunteers can access the tools anytime, anywhere. 

Behave Health’s Group Management Tools are Customizable for Christian Addiction Treatment Groups, Including Bible Study Meetings, Public Service Meetups and Mission-Oriented Activities

Most EHRs will support functionality for group counseling - both in person and virtually. However, these workflows are typically designed for clinical group counseling settings and often aren’t customizable enough to support the unique groups one often finds at Christian addiction treatment settings. 

Unlike secular treatment settings, Christian and non-denominational behavioral health centers often organize groups such as: 

• Mission-driven service groups 

• Bible study groups 

• Christian outreach groups 

• Church-affiliated groups 

• Holiday-related groups 

• Interfaith groups 

• And more

Behave Health’s group management features can easily accommodate these unique group settings and ensure that groups are well-attended, well-organized and well-documented.

Behave Health Supports Christian Sober Living with Faith-Friendly Bed Management 

Most Christian rehabs and addiction treatment organizations operate within a constellation of services, often including faith-based housing resources for current and/or former clients. 

If your addiction treatment center includes a housing component, Behave Health has everything you need to manage this part of your operation, including: 

• Bed management 

• Drug testing 

• Notes and incident reporting 

• Property management tools 

• Vehicle management tools 

• Case management 

• Assignable tasks and cleaning/maintenance scheduling

• Vendor management

• And more 

With our all-in-one solution, you don’t need add-on property management tools to organize your sober living operation. Manage everything in one place with Behave Health’s housing management capabilities.

Easily Integrate Your Faith-Based Addiction Treatment Rehab Into the Larger Christian Community With Behave Health’s Community Resources Tools 

While Christian addiction treatment is based on a personal relationship with Jesus, it’s not meant to be a private affair. In fact, the stronger the faith community surrounding the person in recovery, the stronger the recovery tends to be. Faith-based recovery is a verb not a noun and it’s best practiced with other disciples in community. The same goes for non-denominational addiction recovery, as well as recovery organizations of any faith - whether that’s Jewish, Muslim, LDS, Buddhist or any other deeply meaningful belief system.

At Behave Health, we understand the importance of incorporating recovery work into the larger community and ensuring strong ties between organizations and the people behind them. That’s why we’ve included many community resource tools into our software solution. 

With Behave Health, you can: 

• Record community contacts 

• Share community resources with clients 

• Keep community contact information at your fingertips 

• Schedule fundraisers

• Plan community events 

• Organize auxiliary community groups 

• And more 

With our community-building tools at command, there’s nothing stopping you from helping your clients to grow where they’ve been planted - together, in community. 

Is Your Christian Addiction Treatment Center Ready to Try Behave Health? We’re Here to Help.

Behave Health is committed to making it easier - and more profitable - to operate evidence-based, results-focused addiction treatment centers.

Our all-in-one app puts clinical, administration, staff, admissions, alumni, residents, treatment plans, billing, insurance authorizations and more - all at your fingertips.

Get your free trial started today and see why more addiction treatment centers prefer Behave Health.

PS. Just getting started with behavioral health? Need help with certification, too? Behave Health can also help direct you to the right resources for help with Licensing or Accreditation by either The Joint Commission or CARF. Mention to your product specialist that you’re interested in this service after you start your free trial!