Ascensa Health

Ascensa Health is a nonprofit behavioral health organisation based in Atlanta, Georgia, providing addiction treatment and mental health services through an integrated system of care. The organisation works primarily with adults who are low-income, unhoused or uninsured, offering services aimed at long-term recovery. It serves more than 1,500 individuals and families a year across Metro Atlanta, and reports having worked with over 75,000 people since its founding.

Its continuum of care covers medically supervised withdrawal management, long-term residential treatment for addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders, outpatient treatment, medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders, and ongoing recovery support services. The residential programme traces its origins to Atlanta's first long-term residential treatment programme for alcoholism.

Founded in 1962 as St. Jude's Recovery Center, the organisation has served the Metro Atlanta community for more than 60 years. It is a 501(c)(3) provider agency of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD), is licensed by the Healthcare Facility Regulation Division of the Georgia Department of Community Health, and is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).