Clinical Services
The clinical staff consists of licensed and co-occurring credentialed therapists whose practice is to actively engage each woman upon arrival.
Our consultant psychiatrist performs evaluations and on-going medication monitoring for those in need. We refer to our programs as a family system’s
of care and gender responsive treatment model. Ours is a holistic approach to treatment as women navigate through all the stages of their recovery journey.
It is the aim of staff to model advocacy and self sufficiency as women learn through practical repetition and creative strategies to be independent in their
recovery.
The program has expanded upon evidenced-based groups and therapeutic approaches such as:
- Individual Therapy & Small Group Therapy (utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Theory, Motivational Interviewing, Stages of Change and others)
- Family/Significant Other Sessions
- Self Esteem in Recovery
- Conflict Resolution
- TREM (Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model)
- Grief & Loss
- The Recovery Management Model
- RISE (Rising In2 Sober Empowerment), an educational and advocacy group for individuals with a co-occurring diagnosis
- Social Skill Building
- Literacy and Learning Supports as it relates to treatment barriers
- Spirituality
- Relaxation & Stress Reduction
- 12-Step Groups – NA, AA, Double Trouble, CODA
- The Big Book and Living Recovery
Social Services
The Social Service Department provides comprehensive case management services and life skills counseling. Through a collaborative process
of assessment, planning and advocacy, services are identified and provided to assist each woman in achieving her recovery goals.
- Job readiness training and placement
- GED and Adult Basic Education
- Housing referrals
- Life Skills Counseling and Advocacy
- Legal – pro bono lawyers, advocacy, court accompaniment
- Medical referrals and supports
- Financial – credit counseling, budgeting
- Wellness Groups (covering topics like healthcare issues, parenting classes, nutrition, living in recovery)
- Referrals to community resources
- Transportation
- Recreation
Family & Children Services
The Family House program, together with our childcare center, addresses the needs of both mother and children. The main areas of focus are
to increase parenting capabilities, mother child bonding, improve family functioning, and to increase children’s competence. Pregnant women receive
prenatal care, life skills counselors and other women in the Family House provide support during birth, and post partum women continue to receive
treatment while having centering time with their newborn.
In the Halfway House, where women reside without their children, the Parenting services are less hands on, but focus on building trust, a mother’s
love, and teaching children to work toward progress, not perfection. If reunification is possible, we require that mothers attend parenting groups to
prepare for the eventuality and offer case management services, referrals and other services for children not in treatment.
Parenting Education
- Parenting groups
- Individual parenting sessions
- Informal observation and support of parenting
- Linkages to outside parenting supports
- Mother mentors
Parenting education includes information on child development; positive discipline; how to communicate with one’s children; how to get down on
the floor and play; proper nutrition; balancing work, meetings, housework, homework, and other responsibilities; and how one’s own values and
experiences impact parenting, among other topics.
What will children receive?
- Medical referrals and support
- Behavioral and psychological assessment referrals and services
- Prevention programming
- Kids Groups
- Schooling at local elementary schools, Head Start, tutors and educational assessments
- Specialized Family Center curricula
- Recreational Activities – Boy/Girl Scouts, summer camp, trips to the theater, museums, movies and more
Children’s Prevention Programming
Children’s Group (for ages 6 to 12)
- Create a healthy and safe environment for children to discuss their past experiences of living in an addictive home
- Help children identify positive and negative relationships in their lives
- Promote healthy conflict resolution skills through open communication
- Build self-esteem through group activities and positive experiences in kid’s group
- Help children identify their feelings and explore how their feelings and emotions manifest themselves physically in their bodies.
- Allow children open forum to discuss fears and frustrations related to their parents’ addiction.
- Model healthy, fun alternatives to using drugs such as drug-free parties, field trips, and participation in physical activities
- Encourage children to take personal responsibility in their actions by assigning children weekly tasks, and follow through with positive
reinforcement
Family Activity (daily bonding experience for mother and child)
- Daily developmental and educational activites to increase the bonding between mother and child
- To teach mothers how to enjoy their children and have fun with them
- Provides a daily, consistent, structured activity where mother can be fully present to her child/children
Evidence Based Prevention Groups
- Beginning Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug education program geared for children in grades K to 4
- Increase a child’s self-image
- Addresses peer-pressure and bullying
- Promote positive communication and problem solving
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Social Services
The Social Service Department provides comprehensive case management services and life skills counseling. Through a collaborative process of assessment, planning and advocacy, services are identified and provided to assist each woman in achieving her recovery goals.