Patricia Pond Hinckley

About Patricia Pond Hinckley

THRIVE Wellness and Recovery is a nonprofit behavioral health organization based in Watertown, New York, offering mental health and addiction treatment across Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence Counties. They formed in 2024 when Credo Community Center for the Treatment of Addictions, which began in 1973, merged with Transitional Living Services of Northern New York. Their approach rests on the belief that anyone who needs and wants help for substance use or mental illness deserves access to it. They serve children, adolescents, adults, and families through same-day and scheduled outpatient care, an opioid treatment program, residential programs, care management, and supportive housing.

Their outpatient clinics in Watertown and Lowville operate as a Comprehensive Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, serving people regardless of diagnosis or ability to pay. Services there include assessments, individual, group, and family counseling, psychiatric medication management, and harm reduction resources such as Narcan and fentanyl test strips, and the Lowville clinic also staffs satellite offices in three local schools. The Watertown opioid treatment program dispenses methadone, buprenorphine, Suboxone, naltrexone, and Vivitrol on-site alongside counseling, with medications such as acamprosate available for alcohol use disorder. For longer-term support, they run reintegration residences for men and women in early recovery, with stays averaging 6 to 12 months, and The Farm, a residential program in Evans Mills for young men ages 16 to 20 that offers equine-assisted therapy, GED and schooling support, and family therapy, with peer advocates who have lived experience working across all of these programs.