Welcome to FIRST at Blue Ridge
FIRST at Blue Ridge is a 12-step based, peer led – peer driven, modified Therapeutic Community with a clinical overlay.
FIRST is a residential therapeutic community for individuals with chronic substance use disorders and provides transitional housing, group counseling, self-help meetings, case management, job-placement assistance, and other services to individuals struggling with addiction, homelessness, unemployment, and involvement with the criminal justice system.
The program’s mission is to provide opportunity, guidance, and education to those with addictions and assist them to make positive life changes, in order to become responsible and productive members of society.
In Operation Since 1991
FIRST at Blue Ridge, Inc. is a licensed therapeutic community in the State of North Carolina. We are a non-profit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. The program is located in Ridgecrest, NC which is east of Asheville, NC on Interstate 40. The campus is comprised of a five story residential building with the capacity for eighty-five men, a sixty-five bed women’s facility and other administrative, mechanical, landscaping, clinical and transitional housing. Each transitional house is self-contained and is reserved for individuals who have completed their specific program’s curriculum. Eligibility to live in the transitional houses is determined by FIRST staff … read more
FIRST works in conjunction with a network of local businesses and is currently engaged with AMP Connect in Western North Carolina. AMP Connect was recently featured on the Asheville Chamber of Commerce site for the work we do to facilitate industrial job-skill training for people in long-term recovery programs. Click here to read the article. Way to go!!
First At Blue Ridge, Inc.
32 Knox Road – PO Box 40
Ridgecrest, NC 28770
Phone #: 828-669-0011
First Admissions Fax: 828-669-0596 (Admissions related)
Administrative Offices Fax: 828-669-0589 (Non-admissions related)