Our Mission

The mission of Face It! Sioux Falls is to “dramatically increase both the number of individuals and families in recovery and the quality and accessibility of services by creating a recovery-oriented system of care.”

Our Vision

“Uniting the greater Sioux Falls community in acceptance of and support for the journey of recovery from addiction.”

Our vision is a community that accepts and embraces recovery. It’s a community where people in recovery have resources to stay healthy and rebuild their lives. It’s a place where those who need help are motivated to get well, because their illness is treated like a chronic disease, not a source of shame. And it’s a place where people in recovery are accorded dignity and respect.

We know that recovery works. There are thousands of people in Sioux Falls in long-term recovery who have purpose and meaning and contribute to our high quality of life. Real people, their sons and daughters, friends, neighbors and co-workers are in recovery, and we are all better because of it.

Face It! is inspired by an emerging, groundbreaking model of recovery care that has shown to dramatically help sustain recovery from alcohol and other drug problems. This new approach calls for shifting the treatment of alcohol and other drug problems from an “emergency room” model of acute care to a model of chronic care, or “recovery management.”

The overarching goal of Face It! is to inspire change by stakeholders across-the-board to move Sioux Falls toward this new model of recovery care, called a Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC). This approach has been shown to help more people and to provide significantly better recovery care, while delivering economic benefits to the public and private sectors.

At the center of our community’s new ROSC will be a new not-for-profit organization, a “recovery community center,” providing recovery support services and serving as a positive voice for recovery in the greater Sioux Falls area.

Guiding Core Values and Principles:

• Active listening and community engagement
• Equal opportunity for wellness
• Input at every level
• Recovery-based outcome measures
• Many pathways to recovery are recognized
• Commitment to peer-operated support services
• Recoveree participation on boards and committees
• No wrong door
• Person defines goals
• Culturally competent care
• Co-occurring capable care