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Interventionist in Naples and Collier County
Naples intervention, planned so the court and the jail are the last resort.
Collier County’s public system is small and its legal routes put most of the work on the family. We carry that work with you: preparation, the conversation itself, and a program confirmed before anyone says yes.
Naples does not look like a place in crisis, and that is part of the difficulty. Addiction and serious mental illness here often live behind gates, good jobs and a seasonal calendar that lets everyone avoid the conversation until spring. By the time a family calls, the person is usually functioning just well enough to make everyone doubt themselves.
We are based in Austin, Texas, and travel to Collier County for the intervention. Preparation starts by phone and video the day you call, which suits families who split the year between Naples and somewhere else. Everyone can be coached from wherever they are.
What a Collier plan has to solve
One public receiving system for the whole county. A court process where the family must find and pay for the facility. A protective custody route that, for adults, can end at the county jail. A commercial airport in the next county. None of this is a reason to wait. It is a reason to plan.
What the Collier Clerk tells Marchman petitioners
The court can order treatment. It does not find or fund the bed.
Collier County sits in the 20th Judicial Circuit with Charlotte, Glades, Hendry and Lee (s. 26.021), but a Marchman petition is filed with the clerk in the county where your loved one is (s. 397.681). The Collier Clerk’s Marchman Act page says the respondent must reside in Collier County and a hearing will be set within 10 court working days of filing.
Then come three sentences most families do not expect. Assessment and treatment must be paid for by the petitioner, the respondent or the respondent’s family, because the Legislature has not provided court funds for it. Each program sets its own fees. And the petitioner is responsible for finding an approved facility and confirming it is a Marchman receiving facility. If an assessment was completed in the 30 days before filing, it should be filed with the petition; if not, the petition may ask for an emergency order and must explain why.
That is where independent help earns its fee. Under current law the petitioner can be a spouse, guardian, any relative, a service provider, or one adult with direct personal knowledge (s. 397.68112), and a treatment order can last up to 90 days (s. 397.697). We help you decide whether to file at all, and if you do, we line up a program that will accept the order and fits your loved one. Our Florida Marchman Act guide lays out every step.
Florida lets a law enforcement officer place someone who appears to meet Marchman criteria in protective custody. Without consent, an adult may be taken to a hospital or licensed detox facility, or held in a jail or detention facility for their own protection, which the statute says is not an arrest and creates no criminal record (s. 397.6772).
In Collier, that last option is the plan of record. The county’s 2023 to 2026 Baker and Marchman transportation plan, published by Central Florida Behavioral Health Network, the DCF managing entity for the region, lists the Collier County Jail Center as the transport destination for adults under the Marchman Act. Youth go to the nearest hospital emergency room. Anyone with a medical problem or dangerous intoxication goes by EMS to the nearest emergency center.
Families deserve to know that before they call for help in a heated moment. A planned intervention, with a detox or residential bed confirmed and a companion ready to drive, is designed to keep your loved one off that path altogether.
Protective custody in Collier, plainly stated
Psychiatric crisis in Collier County
The Baker Act runs through one campus.
DLC, Bathey Lane
The transportation plan names David Lawrence Centers’ Emergency Services Assessment Center at 6075 Bathey Lane as the county’s Baker Act receiving facility, open 24/7.
The Willough
The same plan lists The Willough at Naples, a private psychiatric hospital with adult receiving beds, and offers transfer there for Medicare-eligible adults.
Collier Clerk
The Clerk says there is no hearing on a Baker Act ex parte petition, the court decides on sworn testimony, and it is not for substance abuse.
Not the family’s call
Longer involuntary services under s. 394.467 are petitioned by a facility or treating provider, never the family.
Crisis numbers, Collier’s numbers
If anyone is in immediate danger, overdosing or describing a plan to die, call 911. For the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call or text 988, answered here by the 988 Florida Lifeline. David Lawrence Centers publishes 239-352-4357 (239-DLC-HELP) for a behavioral health crisis, and its Bathey Lane campus is open 24/7 for emergency care. Central Florida Behavioral Health Network lists the same number for the David Lawrence Center Mobile Response Team.
Collier recorded 54 drug poisoning deaths among residents in 2024, an age-adjusted rate of 17.3 per 100,000, down from 106 deaths and 32.0 in 2023 (FLHealthCHARTS). A halving in one year is encouraging. It does not change what one family is facing tonight, and an intervention is never the right response to an active emergency.
When a crisis is psychiatric rather than substance-driven, the planning changes: pacing, who is present, and what a safe yes looks like. Our Florida mental health intervention page explains how.
How we work with Naples families
What G3 does, start to finish.
Prepare and lead
Hannah Gibson gathers the history. Matt Gibson coaches every participant by video, then flies in and leads a calm, rehearsed conversation built around one clear option.
Interventions →02Find the right bed
We vet programs in Southwest Florida and nationally, verify each license with the state, and confirm admission before the intervention day.
Treatment navigation →03Get them there
A trained escort travels with your loved one from Naples to the program door, by road or by air, with no stop at a bar or a dealer on the way.
Sober transport →Our fee is flat and in writing before you commit. Travel is billed at actual cost, and transport is quoted separately. No program pays us, which matters in a state where the Patient Brokering Act, s. 817.505, exists precisely because some did. Every substance use program we consider must appear in the DCF licensing search. If a sober home is part of the plan, we check it on the FARR list first.
Roads out of Naples
Most airline travel to Naples runs through Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) in Fort Myers, then south on I-75. That is how Matt arrives, and how relatives flying in usually do. From Naples, I-75 heads north toward Fort Myers and Tampa, or turns east across the Everglades as Alligator Alley toward Broward and Miami. That crossing is long and empty, and it is not a drive to make alone with someone who agreed to treatment an hour ago and is now changing their mind.
For out-of-state programs, an escorted flight from RSW is usually the cleanest option. For Florida programs, our escort drives. Either way the plan is fixed before the intervention starts. Our guide to interstate intervention logistics covers the details, including families coordinating from up north.
Collier County questions
Naples families ask us.
Who pays for treatment under a Marchman order in Collier County?
Could my husband end up in jail under the Marchman Act?
Where is the Baker Act receiving facility in Naples?
Who do we call in a mental health crisis in Collier County?
We are only in Naples for the season. Can you still help?
What does G3 charge?
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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.