Mission Statement | Affiliations

The Wells House, Inc. is a residential continuing care treatment facility, traditionally called a halfway house, that provides structure and support services for adult men in the early stages of recovery from chemical dependency. Our mission is to provide intensive treatment services to clients that have an honest desire to remain drug and alcohol free and are motivated to maintain a productive, healthy lifestyle.

Our treatment program is science-based incorporating the disease concept of chemical dependency along with twelve-step recovery program participation as an adjunct, which helps to compliment and extend the effects of our professional treatment. Each resident has a treatment program tailored to his personal situation and individual needs. This program includes an in-depth biopsychosocial assessment with individualized treatment planning followed by individual, group and family counseling, referrals for rehabilitation and educational training, coordination of aftercare treatment services, and assistance in utilization of community resources for employment, medical/mental health or legal issues.

Founded in 1976, the Wells House is a private, non-profit corporation originally named the Talent House. In 1984, it was reincorporated and renamed in honor of the late Norman Wells, an early founder and benefactor. At present, the Wells House admits approximately fifty men a year. In our twenty-seven year existence, over 1,000 men have successfully completed our program.

The Wells House is one of only a few state-licensed facilities that currently has in place a service agreement with a medication-assisted treatment facility that provides methadone and buprenorphine. We have an established track record in providing treatment services to other population subsets, including clients with co-morbid mental health problems as well as other co-morbid conditions such as HIV and hepatitis C infections.

The Wells House will soon be expanding. For more information about the new facility, see our Wells House News Page.

The Wells House is licensed by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as a halfway house and outpatient care provider. Funding is received from various sources, including but not limited to various state, local amd federal agencies, as well as thorough fee-for-service clients, client fees, and donations from private sources such as foundations, community organizations, churches and private citizens. The Wells House is registered with the Office of the Secretary of State as a charitable organization and is incorported as a non-profit [IRS 501 (c) (3)] tax-exempt organization.

Mission Statement


The mission of the Wells House is to provide intensive treatment services to alcohol and drug dependent adult men in the early stages of recovery. The Wells House provides and supports the delivery of the most affordable, efficient and effective service by providing treatment, education, and relapse prevention to residents the State of Maryland, regardless of their ability to pay.

The Wells House philosophy is one of “action” and is designed to help motivate each client to help them begin to solve the problem of how to accept and appropriately deal with life on its own terms – without the use of substances.

The Wells House program is designed to offer peer support, encouragement and confrontation in a “family” type structure to enable clients to begin to live a life free from drugs or alcohol while restoring self-confidence and dignity.

Affiliations


We are a licensed continuing care (halfway house) and outpateient care facility with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration and with the Maryland Office of Health Care quality. Certification # 6163, expires; November 20, 2004.

We are members of the Maryland Alcohol and Drug Continuing Care Facilities Association, the Mid-Atlantic Halfway House Association and the Halfway House Association of North America.

We are a contracted provider of services to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the following facilities: Martinsburg (WV) VA Medical Center, the VA Maryland Health Care System (including Baltimore and Perry Point) and the Washington, DC VA Medical Center.

We are a contracted provider of services to the Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems, Inc.

We are a provider of services to the Washington County Detention Center and its Jail Substance Abuse Program (JSAP) as well as the Frederick County Detention Center and its Project 103.

We are a contracted provider of services to the Carroll County Health Department’s Homeless Program through the Shoemaker Center, Springfield State Hospital, Sykesville, Maryland.

We work in close association with the Joseph S. Massey Unit of the Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland, the A.F. Whitsitt Center in Chestertown and the Mountain Manor Treatment in Emmitsburg.

We work in coordination with Maryland Job Services, Department of Labor and Licensing Regulation and the Maryland Division of Rehabilitative Services to place clients in vocational training and to assist in securing employment. We also refer clients to the Western Maryland Consortium for job training and assistance.

We have a service agreement in place with the Hagerstown Treatment Center for methadone or buprenorphine (pharmacotherapy-assisted) maintenance or detoxification, where appropriate.

We refer clients to the Community Free Clinic of Hagerstown, the Washington County Department of Social Services, the Washington County Health Care Systems, the Mental Health Center, Inc. and the Washington County Health Department for medical, mental health and other assistance.