Services
WithALL
COLLABORATION
Growing the well-being of our Community through Collaboration
Community Spotlight
In 2024 WithALL and community partners opened a Professional Foster Home in Polk County to care for children with high needs who would otherwise be taken out of the county. This collaboration with Crossnore, Saluda UMC, Polk County DSS and others, provides trained, therapeutic support to children and families in our communities. WithALL Good Neighbors also provides trained volunteers.
At WithALL we work with our network of Collaborators--non-profit organizations and government agencies who are committed to making sure we use existing resources to make our lives better. As in many places, the needs in Polk County are overwhelming. We could use more resources, but that alone does not create a community of well being.
Our network of Collaborators takes seriously the challenge to think about the causes of declined well-being, realizing that the solutions not only involve more resources but also better relationships. In order for our community to thrive we need to be connected and caring for the whole person.
WithALL Collaborators work together to support families who are involved with the justice system, foster system, or seeking recovery to WithALL Good Neighbors who can offer compassion and tangible support. We can ALL be part of the solution! With each other, we can flourish because being beautifully and fiercely connected restores the well-being of ALL.
Our Resolve
We are a community-based gathering of people from all walks of life: from gravel roads to paved roads; non-profits to county agencies; and churches to neighborhoods, who have come together to connect people and resource to empower and heal our community.
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Our commitment is to build relationships that will activate Polk County’s recovery, foster care, employment, education, health, mental health, and recreational resources in ALL our lives.
Our Goals
WithALL works with families seeking RECOVERY, in the FOSTER SYSTEM and/or JUSTICE INVOLVED to address issues needed to return to health and wholeness and help break unhealthy cycles from being passed on to the next generation. We want to see fewer kids facing substance misuse, needing foster care, or ending up in jail or prison.
See below for agency-specific collaborations
FAMILIES & CHILDREN
Crossnore is a Christian school and children’s sanctuary that’s dedicated to uplifting the minds, bodies, and spirits of children and young adults who are in or have gone through the foster-care system. They offer education and school-based clinical services that are designed to benefit children by fostering hope and healing through trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral, equine, dialectical behavioral, and group therapies as well as individual counseling. Goodness grows here!
PCS is North Carolina’s 2nd highest performing school district. It provides a safe learning environment to 2,300 students and consists of 4 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high schools in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including an early college that offers Associate in Arts Degrees—two years of tuition-free college.
JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT
Aspire Polk County: A Child & Family Partnership is a
grassroots child and family advocacy group building a more resilient community. WithALL/4ALL collaborates with this non-profit agency by providing space for the Child Advocacy Center, a quilt for every child that comes in for a forensic interview and offering wraparound support of Good Neighbors if wanted.
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Aspire provides comprehensive services to children and families by filling in the gaps in services offered by other community organizations. They work with child advocacy organizations and law enforcement to support children who have been traumatized by abuse. They provide forensic interviews at our local facility and are in the process of obtaining Child Advocacy Center (CAC) certification. Aspire’s ultimate goal is to promote and support the wellbeing and safety of children and families in our community.
Community Church Partners
Members of Community Church Partners collaborate to provide services that feed the body, touch the hearts, and raise the spirits of the people whose paths they cross.
The DSS provides assistance services related to poverty, family violence, and exploitation that are intended to stop and prevent the abuse, neglect, and dependence of at-risk adults and children.
4ALL Recovery Community Center (RCC) was birthed out of WithALL to meet the needs of Polk County. 4ALL provides peer and volunteer support for anyone seeking wellness for themselves or their families in the face of substance use disorder, mental health challenges, recent incarceration or trauma. We provide recovery services and support through Peer Support Specialists, trained volunteers, training for individuals, families and neighborhoods, and finally by breaking through stigma through education and story telling.
The 4ALL RCC program provides Certified Peer Support Specialists (CPSS) and Peer-supervised volunteers for wrap-around recovery services. As an example of recovery in the community, the CPSS provides related support and resource navigation down to the neighborhood level to interested and engaged participants at the RCC. The CPSS uses their personal lived experiences to connect with participants and to act as an example of wellness. The CPSS cultivates a peer support culture by providing in-person services at the center as well as to those in the community. The latter is achieved by outreach and engagement with interested community partners such as WithALL’s Good Neighbor volunteers.
4ALL Recovery Community Center
HEALTH & RECOVERY
Clarvida works through a broad range of services to bridge the gap between the need that exists within communities and the resources that are available from government agencies. Using both outpatient and residential services, Clarvida provides essential support services for individuals with intellectual disabilities and serious mental health conditions.
Sunrise Community for Recovery & Wellness has been crucial to our ability to bring peer recovery services to Polk County. They have provided a start-up grant and technical support for starting 4ALL, our Recovery Community Center. Sunrise is a non-profit Recovery Community Organization (RCO), led and governed by those in the recovery community and their allies, offering education, peer support and resource navigation at no cost. Their team utilizes their lived experience to provide authentic peer support services to individuals struggling with trauma that often leads to houselessness, substance use, mental health issues, and/or justice involvement.
A special collaboration has formed between The Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee (OSAC) in Polk County and WithALL/4ALL. OSAC meetings now include the Polk Substance Abuse Committee (8+yrs collaborating) and the Polk Mental Health Advisory Committee as well as other agencies and organizations. WithALL has partnered with OSAC to pilot a Co-Responder program which provides a Certified Peer Support Specialist (CPSS) the chance to support Law Enforcement/Emergency Medical Services in responding to calls that are primarily for substance use or mental health crises. When the officer requests it, the CPSS can help develop a plan for services/medical help diverting the person in crisis away from arrest and into recovery.
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The Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee was formed to help assess feedback from the listening sessions and determine feasible high-impact mitigation strategies, and the most effective and appropriate use of the settlement dollars. The Committee is a multi-sector and collaborative group that envisions a resilient recovery community strengthened by evidence-based early intervention, prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services. These efforts will be supported by a holistic, equitable, empathetic, and stigma-free care model that addresses the challenges of opioid use disorder and any co-occurring substance misuse or mental health illness.
Vaya has been a long-term education/training partner with WithALL. They have provided trainers for many events including Mental Health First Aid, Youth Mental Health First Aid, QPR Suicide Prevention, Stigma Reduction and Crisis Intervention Training.
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Vaya Health is a public managed care organization (MCO) that prioritizes whole-person health. They manage Medicaid, federal, state, and local funding to connect the people we serve to health care services and supports. Their specialty is helping individuals with needs related to mental health, substance use disorders, intellectual/developmental disabilities 
(I/DD), and traumatic brain injuries (TBI).
Blueridge is an emerging partnership with us that is dedicated to linking important health, mental health and recovery health services to Certified Peer Support Specialists and community support through WithALL/4ALL.
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Blue Ridge Health is Community-First Healthcare for Western North Carolinians. Providing Medical, Dental, Behavioral Health, and Outreach Services through our Clinics and Community Programs.