Health Recovery Services, Inc. (formerly Residential Treatment Program, Inc. and Personal Development Institute, Inc.) is a private, not-for-profit 501c3 corporation, committed to serving those with mental illness and addiction by promoting the lifelong recovery of individuals and families through community education, prevention strategies, treatment and other supportive services. To fulfill this mission, Health Recovery Services, Inc. was established in September, 1975 in Athens, Ohio as Residential Treatment Program, Inc. and began operation in November 1975 to address a community need for impaired drivers' programming. At its zenith, the Drivers Intervention Program (DIP) served 30 counties in Ohio through either direct programming or consultation. Currently it serves a steady base of six surrounding counties.

In July 1977, in response to community need for adolescent treatment services, the agency established intensive substance abuse education for adolescents based on a redesign of the impaired drivers' residential model. Historically the agency has been involved in community education and prevention activities through schools at the elementary, middle, high school and college levels.

In October 1980, Bassett House was established in response to the needs of adolescents served in previous programming efforts as well as requests of community leaders concerned about adolescents harmfully involved in substances. This twenty four bed facility, located on a ten acre scenic rural site in Athens county, has undergone three major physical plant renovations as it continually strives to increase its ability to serve chemically dependent adolescents in a free standing setting. This facility participated in a managed care readiness grant which enabled it to increase accessibility to less restrictive levels of care while promoting transfer to less costly service delivery models such as crisis stability short stays, day treatment and therapeutic foster care.

In a continual effort to meet the needs of chemically dependent individuals and families in a less intensive level of care, the Personal Development Institute, Inc. was established in 1983 in Athens County. Outpatient services were originally based in Athens County with Hocking, Vinton and Meigs counties added to the agency' service plan from 1985-1987.

In July 1989, the Rural Women's Recovery Program (RWRP) was established with five beds as a residential freestanding response to the critical, gender specific needs of adult women residing in an economically depressed area without resources available to reimburse traditional inpatient treatment programming. This facility is located on 20 acres in scenic Athens County, next to Bassett House. This unique arrangement affords the shared services benefits for both facilities, In 1993-94 an addition was constructed to the house so that addicted mothers and their infant through preschool children could be better served in this under served population.

In July 1990, these two private non-profit organizations, Residential Treatment Program, Inc. and Personal Development Institute, Inc. merged to form Health Recovery Services, Inc. In subsequent years, Health Recovery Services, Inc. focused on designing a clinically appropriate continuum of care for the rural communities it served.

In the summer of 1995, the agency developed a shared service agreement with the ODMH through its Southeast Psychiatric Hospital (SPH) facility. This agreement focused on physical space within the hospital to provide services to hospital-based patients who were dually diagnosed and in need of drug and alcohol education and treatment services. The SA/MI unit provided services to both hospital-based and outpatient services working cooperatively with hospital staff. By the summer of 1996, HRS had entered a cooperative agreement with SPH to occupy the two wards on the second floor. With that agreement in place, administrative staff from the College Street location as well as the Athens County Outpatient Clinic and Community Services Unit from the Stimson Avenue location moved into the hospital and joined the existing SA/MI Unit.