Transition into a Life of Excellence

Your clinical program encompasses two phases to allow you a seamless transition from intensive treatment to partial treatment and into a life of excellence. The objectives of your continuum of care are:

1. To offer you a safe environment to learn and practice 12-step principles and life skills.

2. To assist you in obtaining community service or part-time work which support your recovery efforts.

3. To enable you to increase life skills that lead to taking responsibility for yourself.

4. To provide additional structure to enhance and fortify your transition to independent living.

5. To offer the opportunity for you to experience additional therapeutic services to reinforce relapse prevention in conjunction to experiencing “real life” circumstances.

Program phases defined:

• Phase 1  = intensive residential treatment at our treatment campus
   

• Phase 2 = supportive residential treatment at our treatment campus

Phase 1 allows you to focus entirely on actively engaging in treatment activities: attending twelve step meetings, groups, individual therapy, finding a sponsor and starting work on the steps. You have the opportunity to put some time between you and chemicals, develop relapse prevention and coping skills, select and work with a sponsor through the early steps of recovery. You are given the opportunity to internalize motivation toward recovery and establish behaviors that support sober living- becoming less defensive, verbalizing, and working on alcohol and/or drug related issues that interfere with recovery.

Once you demonstrate an increase in self-motivation and internalization of the values and habits to sustain recovery, you are transitioned into Phase 2, supportive residential treatment. Here you participate in treatment in the mornings and then have the afternoons and weekends to experience some freedom outside treatment.  Phase 2 is recognition of your progress, indicating some internalization which therefore requires fewer restrictions, but still offering security while you experience complications that interfere with your stability. You and your counselor plan for your participation in community service activities or part-time work, step work, recovery-related social and recreational activities with your sponsor and others in the recovery community.

After Phases 1 & 2, you literally move from the treatment campus into a halfway house setting deemed appropriate by you and your treatment team. This setting is designed to assist those ready to “test” their newly established recovery skills in the real world and is driven by your commitment to your discharge plan. By this point, you are consistently demonstrating the desire to maintain your progress and commitment to recovery obtained to date.

Clients go through an honors ceremony upon completion of the two treatment phases, and after being successful at maintaining sobriety for several months in the halfway house setting. Clients who rigorously complete all aspects of our treatment program experience amazingly high rates of recovery and the honors ceremony gives our current clients the opportunity to observe this firsthand, providing further incentive to continue to forge ahead with their own intensive and supportive treatment phases.