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Telephone Recovery Support (TRS)
Our Story
Telephone Recovery Support (TRS) was created to offer individuals across New Jersey aged 18 and older confidential peer support, encouragement, guidance, and connections to vital resources and services. We provide, free, confidential, outgoing weekly calls to individuals actively using, currently in recovery, new to or curious about recovery, for as little as 16 weeks or as long as you need support.
Our Approach
Peer support provides callers with a unique and invaluable connection. Drawing from their own lived experiences, peers offer a level of understanding and acceptance that can be hard to find elsewhere in treatment settings. This peer relationship emphasizes goal setting and explores dimensions of wellness. Instead of replacing clinical treatments, peer support supplements them, breaking down barriers to recovery.
Peers collaborate with individuals to set recovery and wellness goals tailored to their needs, focusing on various dimensions of wellness such as physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. Through these relationships built on mutual trust and respect, peers inspire hope and demonstrate that recovery is achievable.
Our Peers
TRS Peers are empathetic support specialists who understand the challenges of recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD) firsthand. They are highly trained and provide confidential outgoing weekly calls for those seeking support, while also welcoming incoming calls with confidential voicemail options.
Our Funders
TRS is operated by Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) and is funded through the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)
TRS is not a crisis support hotline. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of harming themselves or if you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. If you or a loved one are experiencing thoughts of suicide, or a mental health or substance abuse crisis, call 988.