SMA Healthcare

As one of the leaders in substance abuse and mental health in Flagler, Putnam, St. Johns, and Volusia counties, we provide a first-class working environment, competitive wages and benefits packages for full-time employees. Opportunities for advancement and growth are attainable within our organization. We value our staff and strive to provide them opportunities to excel.

June 7, 2018. That was the day that Danielle Moye entered SMA Healthcare’s Women Assisting Recovering Mothers (WARM) program. It is also her sobriety date. In other words, that was the day that her life was changed. Forever.

Danielle grew up in North Carolina. For most of her life, from age 14 on, she suffered from addiction and alcoholism. In between that, and her sobriety date, she tried different things to get sober. She used Subutex when she was 18 or 19, but not even that worked.

“I am the type of addict that abuses everything, and could never do anything right,” said Moye. “If I was prescribed medication, I would take the whole bottle. I could never do what was dosed to me to help me recover.”

Danielle felt that she needed some sort of awakening or “rock bottom” to get the help she needed. Unfortunately, while still living in North Carolina, her son was removed from her custody. She was not “in the right state of mind physically or mentally to try and get him back,” and she lost custody. She had no support system. And, to make matters worse, North Carolina did not have the program or services like those that SMA offers — it was hard for to get the guidance she needed for a sober life.

Danielle was in a tough spot, with nowhere to turn. So, she made a decision that would ultimately change her life.

“I couldn’t figure out what to do and I didn’t know about SMA,” Danielle said. “I didn’t know about the different programs that SMA had.”

That is when things began to change. After her daughter was removed, Dee (Krogh) – who she would later refer to as her angel – showed up at her mom’s house to help her. And, she came back to tell her all about SMA, the detox unit and WARM.

“The women at WARM taught me about 12-step meetings, sponsorship, and about having a relationship with a higher power. I knew there was something bigger than me helping to guide me all of a sudden. I had never been willing before, but now that I was, things were happening.”

Another change that WARM made in Danielle’s life was that they helped her get her daughter back. She now has full custody, and her case has been closed. She was unfortunately not able to re-gain custody of her son, but still maintains a relationship with him today – he is now seven years old and lives in North Carolina. He comes to visit twice-a-year, and she considers it a miracle that she can still be his mom.

“All of these obstacles have happened in my journey and recovery, but I stuck with it and stayed sober,” she said. “Just because I wasn’t able to see the miracle happening, I didn’t give up. Even though I can’t see anything good happening in the future, I am going to stay focused, stay sober and see what happens. And everything has worked out.

“Don’t quit before the miracle happens!”

Read more at our website https://smahealthcare.org/stories-of-transformation-danielle-moye/

Located in Daytona Beach in Volusia county, SMA's BEACH House is a shelter that provides short-term respite for youth ages 10-17 who are truant, ungovernable, or runaway, and/or homeless. Our RAP (Residential Adolescent Program) is a substance abuse treatment program serving youth ages 13-17 with an average length of stay of 4-6 months.