Family Life Center

What Family Life Center does

Family Life Center is a nonprofit substance abuse treatment organization founded in 1993 and headquartered in Fort Payne, Alabama. It operates 12 physical locations across northern Alabama spanning the Huntsville and Gadsden metropolitan areas, providing outpatient counseling, Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), anger management classes, and 24/7 crisis support. Its residential treatment sub-brand, Rapha Treatment Centers, operates gender-segregated inpatient facilities for men (Attalla) and women (Fort Payne).

The organization's core curriculum is built on the SAMHSA Anger Management framework for its one-day Saturday anger management classes, and it integrates an optional faith-based recovery pathway alongside evidence-based clinical treatment. Service delivery spans the full continuum of addiction care including outpatient individual and group counseling, MAT combining pharmaceuticals with behavioral therapy, residential Rapha programs for long-term recovery, and virtual recovery resources including opioid education and Naloxone training registration.

Family Life Center generates revenue through insurance-based billing across its treatment modalities, supplemented by court-ordered treatment referrals from Alabama Drug Court programs. Its go-to-market is community-led, relying on physical location density across northern Alabama, organic social media presence, content marketing, and institutional referral relationships rather than paid acquisition. The target customer base is individuals with substance use disorders, families affected by addiction, and court-mandated individuals seeking treatment compliance.

Name

Family Life Center

Legal name

Family Life Center

Website

https://familylifecenter.ws

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Family Life Center is a nonprofit substance abuse treatment organization operating 12 locations across northern Alabama, providing outpatient counseling, MAT, residential care (Rapha centers), and SAMHSA-based anger management classes to individuals and families affected by addiction.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Substance Abuse Treatment Services

NAICS

Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities (623220), Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Facilities (6232)

SIC

Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Mental Health Treatment Centers (HLAFACAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Family & Parenting Support Services (BPAGAEAC)

Keywords

• Substance abuse treatment
• Outpatient recovery services
• Anger management classes
• Medication-assisted treatment
• Residential recovery program

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Payne

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Insurance-based Treatment Services: The organization accepts insurance for treatment services. They offer outpatient treatment, residential treatment, and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs. Services are provided to individuals with or at risk of drug and alcohol problems.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Family Life Center is a faith-based nonprofit that provides outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment across northern Alabama. Its services include medication-assisted treatment (MAT), the Rapha residential program for men and women, SAMHSA-aligned anger management classes, and supporting resources such as a self-assessment quiz and virtual recovery content.

Product overview

Family Life Center is a nonprofit substance abuse treatment organization offering a coordinated portfolio of recovery services across Alabama. The core offerings include an Outpatient Treatment Program providing individual and group counseling, Anger Management Classes utilizing the SAMHSA curriculum, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) combining pharmaceuticals with behavioral therapy. The organization operates two residential treatment sub-brands—Rapha Treatment Centers for Men and Rapha Treatment Centers for Women—providing inpatient recovery environments. Additional services include an online Addiction Self-Assessment Quiz for self-referral and Virtual Recovery Resources including opioid education and Naloxone training. The portfolio ranges from intensive residential care to flexible outpatient scheduling, with optional faith-based recovery pathways available.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Rapha Treatment Centers: Residential treatment centers for men and women providing safe and therapeutic environment for long-term recovery from addiction

Products and services

• Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Outpatient counseling and recovery services for individuals struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, delivered across multiple Family Life Center offices in northern Alabama.
• Rapha Men's Residential Treatment Residential recovery program for men with substance use disorders, providing structured on-site treatment through Family Life Center's Rapha campus.
• Rapha Women's Residential Treatment Residential recovery program for women with substance use disorders, providing structured on-site treatment through Family Life Center's Rapha for Women program.
• Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Medication-assisted treatment program combining pharmacological support with counseling for individuals recovering from substance use disorders.
• SAMHSA Anger Management Classes Structured anger management classes following the SAMHSA Anger Management curriculum, available in-person and virtually, with a $300 flat rate for court-referred clients.
• Virtual Recovery Resources Online recovery content and resources provided through the Family Life Center website to support individuals in treatment and recovery.

Quantifiable outcome

• The ultimate goal of MAT is full recovery, including the ability to live a self-directed life.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFamily Life Center utilizes the SAMHSA Anger Management curriculum for their 8-hour Saturday courses. The curriculum covers topics including definitions of anger and aggression, myths about anger, the anger meter, anger control plans, the ABCD Model and thought-stopping, assertiveness, and conflict resolution models. SAMHSA is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services providing the evidence-based framework for their programming.
• Rapha Treatment CenterscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRapha Treatment Centers is a faith-based residential treatment program operated under Family Life Center, providing separate facilities for men (in Attalla) and women (in Fort Payne). The mission is to provide a safe and therapeutic environment for individuals to begin long-term recovery. The Rapha centers represent Family Life Center's inpatient residential treatment offerings.
• Jefferson County Department of HealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for online Naloxone training to help address the opioid crisis. Family Life Center refers community members to register for this training as part of their opioid use disorder resources.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• JourneyPure: Multi-state SUD treatment operator (Tennessee/Kentucky/Florida) offering residential, outpatient, and MAT services. Comparable in combining clinical protocols with faith-informed programming and serving southern US markets.
• Valley Hope: Multi-state nonprofit SUD treatment provider with residential and outpatient programs across the Midwest and South. Comparable continuum-of-care model (detox, residential, outpatient, MAT) and nonprofit governance structure.
• Bradford Health Services: Alabama-based addiction treatment provider offering residential, outpatient, and recovery services across the Southeast. Direct comparable in scope, geography, and faith-adjacent recovery philosophy, and the most prominent in-state competitor to Family Life Center.
• The Ranch: Tennessee-based residential and outpatient addiction and mental health treatment provider. Comparable in offering a residential SUD treatment environment integrated with clinical therapy in a southern US setting.
• Pyramid Healthcare: Pennsylvania-based provider of residential, outpatient, and MAT services for substance use and co-occurring disorders. Comparable full-continuum SUD portfolio and multi-site operating model.
• Cumberland Heights: Tennessee-based nonprofit addiction treatment center offering inpatient, outpatient, and recovery residence programs with a 12-step foundation. Comparable regional nonprofit model with faith-adjacent philosophy and similar service breadth.
• Oxford Treatment Center: Mississippi-based residential and outpatient SUD treatment provider serving the broader Deep South. Comparable multi-modality service portfolio (detox, residential, outpatient, MAT) targeting similar populations in an adjacent geography.

Broad incumbents

• American Addiction Centers: Publicly-traded national operator of SUD treatment facilities offering residential, detox, outpatient, and MAT services. Comparable in core service offering but operates at substantially greater scale across multiple states.
• Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: National nonprofit SUD treatment organization with residential and outpatient programs across the US. Comparable faith-and-12-step-influenced treatment philosophy and nonprofit structure, but operates at significantly larger scale and national footprint.
• Recovery Centers of America: Large multi-state inpatient and outpatient SUD treatment chain primarily serving the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Comparable service lines (detox, residential, outpatient, MAT) but with materially greater scale, capital, and geographic reach than Family Life Center.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Counselingbama
• Facebookfacebook.com/family.life.center.inc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/familylifecenterinc
• Instagraminstagram.com/familylifecenterinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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