Don Roberts
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Don Roberts, BSW, LAC, founded the Never Alone Recovery Hall in 2017, which evolved into a 501(c)(3) called Never Alone Recovery Support Services (NARSS). Today NARSS operates a Recovery Community Center and a Recovery Residence program that includes several homes and a Recovery Village. Don serves as executive director of NARSS and provides training for Behavioral Health Peer Support Specialists across Montana.
Don also sits on the Board of Directors for Recovery Access Montana (RAM), working to help develop a Recovery-Oriented System of Care in Montana that supports Recovery Residence programs, Peer Support programs, Recovery Community Centers, Re-entry programs, and other statewide Recovery Community efforts. A person in long-term recovery from addiction and mental health issues, Don is a Licensed Addiction Counselor and holds a bachelor's degree in Social Work from Salish Kootenai College.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- How Don built a thriving recovery community on a rural Montana Indian Reservation with virtually no resources.
- Why community collaboration and sustained funding are essential for recovery community organizations and recovery housing.
- How Never Alone Recovery Support Services created recovery community centers and a recovery residence village.
- That long-term, community-based peer support can replace clinical-only approaches for sustaining sobriety and building new lives.
- How NARSS provides safe, sober housing that helps individuals build life skills and healthy social environments.
- Why peer-based recovery support works for years, not just weeks, to help people maintain ongoing sobriety.
- How Don’s professional background as a licensed addiction counselor informs his peer-focused recovery model.
- That virtually everyone on the Reservation now knows about NARSS services, proving deep community trust.
- How NARSS trains Behavioral Health Peer Support Specialists to expand recovery support across Montana.
- Why developing a Recovery-Oriented System of Care requires supporting recovery residences, peer programs, and re-entry services.
about the show
Overcoming addiction requires discipline, clarity, and resilience — the exact qualities needed to build a successful commercial business. Clean and Thriving TV reveals how business owners in recovery translate their personal transformation into building and running real commercial enterprises.
Clean and Thriving TV is a premium television docuseries spotlighting business owners who refused to let their past define them. Honoring the grit required to overcome addiction and build a business, the series focuses on operational growth, daily execution, and commercial success beyond recovery.
The series takes viewers inside the authentic stories of business owners who turned their lives around and built thriving companies. Clean and Thriving TV serves as the definitive national stage for these entrepreneurs to share their business insights and inspire others.
