An Overview
- We place a Change Coach, Case Manager in the life of the client who needs comprehensive services.
- We do this at the very time the scales of recovery or re-addiction are being tipped; right before treatment, after treatment when they have returned to their home environment, gone to sober living, or moved into their own residence.
- Our ultimate goal; real, lasting change by staying strongly linked and engaged in treatment.
Among other things we...
- remove family members from the role of monitor;
- maintain recovery momentum by offering a minimum of 300 points of contact per year, with the family and loved one;
- decrease the number of people “lost” from waiting lists to enter addiction treatment by setting up “prehab” ;
- enhance treatment retention and completion;
- increase post-treatment abstinence outcomes;
- delay the time period from discharge to first use following treatment (enhancing development of recovery capital, which is the sum total of all the personal, social, and community resources a person can draw on to begin and sustain his recovery from drug and alcohol problems);
- prevent lapses from becoming relapses;
- shorten the number, intensity, and duration of relapse episodes following treatment;
- decrease treatment readmission rates (slow the revolving door of treatment);
- decrease the time between relapse and re-initiation of treatment and recovery support services (preserving recovery capital and minimizing personal and social injury);
- result in readmission to less intensive, less expensive levels of care;
- reduce attrition in first year affiliation rates with AA and other sobriety- based support groups;
- enhance recovery capital (e.g., employment, school enrollment, stable housing, healthy family and extended family involvement; sobriety-based hobbies, financial resources) and self-defined quality of life.
Your Change Coach, Case manager will:
- Encourage successful entry into treatment
- Encourage successful completion of treatment
- Support your continued participation in self-help activities
- Guide you in setting goals and identifying how to take steps to achieve them
- Provide recovery support for up to 1 year after you have completed treatment
In addition:
- We forge a long-term partnership with clients, their families, and community support systems.
- We support persons wanting to have success and significance in life – where they connect with their purpose.
- Through our personal renovation approach, clients will discover there is much more beyond the sober life. They learn to thrive by rebuilding trust in themselves and others, letting go of fears, and repairing relationships. They step into a more authentic life as leaders in their community and find for the first time or re-ignite their passions.
- Recovery checkups are pro-active and include assessments and personalized feedback for each client on how they're doing. We describe the value of these on-going checkups in terms of empathy and acceptance, kindness and courtesy, belief in the client’s capacity to change, respect for the client’s right to learn from good and bad choices, linkage to crucial resources, and simply hanging in through the client’s setbacks and successes.
- "The words most frequently used to describe what we do includes the following: identify, engage, encourage, motivate, share, express, enhance, orient, help, link, consult, monitor, transport, praise, enlist, support, organize, and advocate", says Co-founder and Chief Empowerment Officer, Timothy Harrington.
- Our position can range from a low level of service involvement (e.g., an annual recovery checkup or a quarterly phone call to monitor health status) to a high level of service involvement (e.g., 24/day in home with high intensity monitoring and recovery coaching).
- Our level of involvement all depends on the clients personal vulnerability, problem severity, and problem complexity.
- Whatever the level of involvement, the primary goal is always increased quality of life for the individual and family.
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