We provide group treatment, individual therapy, child services, case management, and peer support services (including home visits).
Horizons offers weekly onsite psychiatry services, and in our OB/GYN and psychiatry clinics we provide Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) with buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorders. In Carrboro we also have our own licensed, five-star child care center for the children of women in our program. Horizons offers weekly onsite psychiatry services, and in our OB/GYN and psychiatry clinics we provide Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) with buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorders. In Carrboro we also have our own licensed, five-star child care center for the children of women in our program.
Horizons moves women and children from the shadowy margins of society into the embrace of community
Horizons serves about 260 women each year, approximately 50% of whom are pregnant at intake. All of our patients are covered by Medicaid or are uninsured, and all of the families fall below 130% of the federal poverty level. Most Horizons’ patients have at least one child under 18 and about half of the women with children have current Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement when they enter the program.
Other commonalities include:
80% come from families of origin with drug addiction problems
80% have experienced at least one form of interpersonal violence (physical abuse, sexual abuse/assault, and/or domestic violence)
85% have been arrested at least once
50% have been incarcerated at least once
Last year over 75% of the graduates of our residential program were employed when they left the program. Each year we welcome about 65 babies born to mothers in our program. Last year the average birth weight for babies born into our program at UNC was 6.6 pounds and the average gestational age was 39 weeks. We estimate that our program saves the state of North Carolina approximately $3,300,000 each year, primarily related to the legal system (fewer arrests and days incarcerated), health services (healthier birth outcomes, less time in the hospital for mothers and babies), and social services (fewer children in foster care, fewer open CPS cases). Our program has become a model that is recognized nationally and internationally. The life-changing care that we provide to women and their children truly does improve their life chances and helps to heal generations
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Horizons Program is a trauma responsive and mother and child centered substance use disorder treatment program for women, including pregnant and parenting women. Horizons provides residential treatment in Chapel Hill, outpatient treatment in Carrboro and Raleigh, and a specialized OB/GYN clinic in Chapel Hill. Our service array includes group and individual counseling, case management, peer-support services, education support, employment assistance, childcare and OB/GYN and psychiatric services. Horizons has served over 5,000 women since our founding in 1993. Last year over 75% of the graduates of our residential program were employed. Each year we welcome about 65 babies born to mothers in our program. Last year the average birth weight for babies born into our program at UNC was 6.6 pounds and the average gestational age was 39 weeks. We estimate that our program saves the state of North Carolina approximately $3,300,000 each year, primarily related to the legal system (fewer arrests and days incarcerated), health services (healthier birth outcomes, less time in the hospital for mothers and babies), and social services (fewer children in foster care, fewer open CPS cases). Our program has become a model that is recognized nationally and internationally. The life-changing care that we provide to women and their children truly does improve their life chances and helps to heal generations.
