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Interventionist in Daytona Beach, Florida
A Daytona Beach interventionist for addiction and mental health crises.
For Volusia County families who have tried pleading, bargaining and waiting: a prepared conversation, a program already chosen, and someone steady in the room when it matters.
Daytona Beach families tend to call us after the same realization: the problem did not end with the last arrest, the last emergency room visit, or the last promise. Something has to be organized, not just hoped for.
That is our work. Matt Gibson, a Certified Interventionist (CAI), prepares your family and guides the conversation. Hannah Gibson manages the case through admission. G3 is based in Austin, Texas, travels to Volusia County for the intervention, and is paid by your family alone.
If any of this sounds familiar
A parent whose son has survived an overdose and gone straight back to using. A spouse counting hidden bottles and missed shifts. A sibling in another state who hears that a brother on the beachside has stopped his medication and stopped sleeping. Different situations, the same need for a plan.
Volusia’s numbers, read honestly
The county has been hit hard. Florida Department of Health figures on FLHealthCHARTS show 180 drug poisoning deaths among Volusia residents in 2024, an age-adjusted rate of 33.4 per 100,000. The statewide rate that year was 21.3. The year before, Volusia lost 288 residents, at a rate of 52.2.
So the trend is improving, and the county is still well above Florida as a whole. For a family, the takeaway is not a statistic. It is that waiting for rock bottom carries a real price here, especially where fentanyl is involved. If opioids are part of your picture, our fentanyl guide for families explains what to keep in the house and what to watch for while the plan comes together.
Our process
From your first call to a bed in treatment
Listen first
One confidential call with Matt or Hannah. We want the history: what has been tried, which diagnoses are on record, who your loved one still respects.
Choose the program
We match clinical need, insurance and distance, and confirm admission before the day. Medical detox comes first when alcohol or benzodiazepines are involved.
Rehearse
Each family member practices by video until their words are short, honest and free of old arguments.
The day itself
Matt arrives, guides the conversation, and our escorts can take your loved one straight to admission.
Filing a Marchman petition in Volusia County
DeLand is the clerk’s preferred filing office. Hearings are in Daytona Beach.
Volusia sits in Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit with Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns counties (s. 26.021). A Marchman petition is filed in the county where your loved one is currently located, and the Volusia County Clerk of the Circuit Court spells out the local details. The clerk names DeLand as the preferred filing location (101 N. Alabama Avenue, Room A222, (386) 736-5914), with a second filing window at 125 E. Orange Avenue, Room 100, in Daytona Beach. The petition must be signed before a notary, or before a deputy clerk at the courthouse with identification. According to the clerk, all hearings are held at the S. James Foxman Justice Center in Daytona Beach, there are no court or filing fees, law enforcement serves the papers, and the respondent is appointed counsel.
Who can file comes from state law. Under s. 397.68112, a spouse, guardian, relative, service provider, or one adult with direct personal knowledge of the substance use and its treatment history may petition for an adult. The court sets a hearing within 10 court working days (s. 397.68151), and in an emergency may issue an ex parte order sending your loved one for assessment of up to 72 hours (s. 397.6818). A treatment order can last up to 90 days (s. 397.697).
The clerk also directs people starting a petition to the 24-hour Access Center of Stewart-Marchman-Act Behavioral Healthcare at 1-800-539-4228. Read our Florida Marchman Act guide for the full sequence and the questions to settle before you file.
When the crisis is psychosis, mania or suicidal depression without a substance problem driving it, the Baker Act is the relevant law. Under s. 394.463 an involuntary examination can follow a police decision, a clinician’s certificate, or an ex parte order based on sworn testimony, and it lasts up to 72 hours after arrival at a receiving facility. Families cannot file for the longer order themselves: s. 394.467 reserves that petition for the facility or a treating provider.
Many Volusia families have lived through the release that follows three days later. We plan for that moment in advance, with a program and a conversation ready, and our mental health intervention work in Florida is built for exactly this kind of case.
When it is mental illness, not just substances
Before anything else
Danger right now means 911, not us.
An overdose, a weapon, or a threat of suicide needs 911. A crisis that is frightening but not immediately dangerous can go to 988 by call or text. Once the moment has passed, we are a phone call away.
Who answers at 2 a.m. in Volusia
Statewide, 988 connects to the 988 Florida Lifeline. Locally, the public safety net for mental health and addiction is run by SMA Healthcare, which lists a 24/7 helpline and Mobile Crisis Response Team at (800) 539-4228. SMA describes its Volusia County Crisis Stabilization Unit and Detoxification Services as a short-term residential facility for adults, with 30 crisis stabilization beds and 19 detox beds. Above the providers, DCF’s managing entity list assigns Volusia to Lutheran Services Florida (LSF Health Systems), which oversees state funded behavioral health care across much of north and central Florida.
A crisis unit stabilizes. It does not decide what happens next week, and it cannot persuade someone who leaves the moment they are allowed. That gap, between stabilization and a real commitment to treatment, is where an intervention earns its place.
Vetting programs between the beach and the river
Florida has a long record of treatment fraud, and the law reflects it. Paying or accepting anything of value for patient referrals is a felony under the Patient Brokering Act, with penalties that climb with the number of patients involved. A free placement line that steers you to one facility deserves a hard question about who pays for it.
Every program we suggest is checked against DCF’s substance use provider licensing search. For sober living after treatment, s. 397.4873 keeps licensed providers from referring to recovery residences that lack a certificate and a certified administrator, and certified homes appear on the FARR registry. Then we go past the paperwork: who runs the clinical program, how detox is handled, and what discharge planning looks like. Our guide to what families should know about detox explains why that first step deserves care, and treatment navigation is how we carry it through.
Getting to Daytona, and getting to treatment
Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) puts Matt close to most Volusia families, and Orlando International is an option when flight times work better. Interstate 4 ends at I-95 near Daytona, so a program in Central Florida or up the coast toward Jacksonville is a straightforward drive. When the right program is farther away, our sober transport escorts travel with your loved one door to door, and our guide to interstate intervention logistics covers flights, identification and medications.
Families split between Volusia and another state are common, and a family member in Ohio or New York can take full part by video during preparation.
Questions from Volusia families
What Daytona Beach families ask us first.
Where do we file a Marchman Act petition in Volusia County?
Where are Marchman hearings held for Daytona Beach cases?
Who handles mental health and addiction crises in Volusia County?
Is G3 located in Daytona Beach?
Should our loved one get treatment near Daytona or farther away?
What does an intervention cost?
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The next step is a conversation
You do not have to figure this out alone.
One confidential call with G3 begins it. No pressure, no judgment, just a path forward.