OUTLINE OF ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Individual sessions
Individual sessions - a scheduled session with the counselor and participant. Initially, each participant will see his counselor each week for the first 30 days, the counselor will focus on the progress of the participant through the program and update recovery/treatment plans with the participant as new problems surface. All sessions will be documented in the participant's file.
Orientation
Orientation - within 72 hours after completion of the admission process, participants will be provided an orientation into the nonresidential program. Topics covered will include program rules and regulations, individual and group attendance policies, self-help meeting attendance, importance of the treatment/recovery plan, and participant's rights. These areas will be reviewed in detail. Participants will sign and acknowledge their presence and that they received written materials reviewed in the orientation session.
Alcohol and/or drug education 
Alcohol and/or drug education - groups consisting of lectures, questions and answers, and general sharing. Videos and tapes may be used to complement the facilitators lecture. Handouts and writing assignments will be included.
Recovery/treatment planning group
Recovery/treatment planning group - this group will be scheduled weekly. It is necessary for each participant to attend this group because it will focus on main areas of their lives, which will ground the participant's foundation for the beginning of their recovery.
Individual recovery/treatment planning
Individual recovery/treatment planning - sessions will be provided to each participant when scheduled with his or her counselor. The following topics and others will be discussed in this group: substance abuse, marriage and family relationships, spirituality, psychosocial, employment training and assistance, academic and educational reestablishment, transitional housing, anger management, relapse prevention, introduction to the sober network 12 step groups.
Anger management
Anger management - drinking and using has created many negative features within our personality. One of those features, anger has created gaps in our relationships with family, loved ones, friends, etc. This group will provide lectures and discussions on what is anger? How we got to the point of being angered, what can we do about it? And provide information on how signs to prevent it from bursting out again. Writing assignments will be required for understanding and remembering what anger has done to our lives.
Relapse prevention group
Relapse prevention group - this group will focus on recognizing the warning signs of relapse. How to deal with them and what to do before doing the wrong thing, which leads to relapse.
12 step group
12 step group - this group will focus on the twelve steps of recovery understanding how the steps play an important part of their recovery. It will be very vital to each participant's recovery that all steps are completed. Staff member and volunteers/interns who are successful in their own recovery process will facilitate this group, with the goal of assisting the participant in understanding and utilizing the 12 steps of recovery. Individual study and written work will be a major part of the group. Understanding the use of a Sponsor and acquiring one will be mandatory as well as attending self-help meetings (AA, NA, CA, etc.).
A family group
A family group - this group focuses on the family and involves the family. The group will be required for each participant and their family. Lectures, discussions, educational material, videos, tapes, and writing assignments will be components of the group.
Discharge and exit planning
Discharge and exit planning - putting it all together and coming up with possible answers pertaining to: what do I do now? How do I maintain sobriety? What triggers relapse? These areas of discussion are part of this group. Participants will develop an exit plan, which will be shared in-group and with their counselor.
Parenting skills
Parenting skills - participants will focus on being effective in the skills of parenting. Learning how to care for their children and being a parent.
Women’s group
Women’s group - women only groups, which will discuss issues pertaining to women.
Men’s group
Men’s group - men only groups, which will discuss issues pertaining to men.
Childcare education
Childcare education - single parents experiencing alcohol and/or drug abuse will discuss and learn what this problem has caused them in bringing up children. Lectures, writing assignments and other information will be provided.
Youth/Adolescent’s group
Youth/Adolescent’s group - groups designed to meet the needs of the adolescent, who are experiencing problems with alcohol and/or drug abuse. It will involve the parents/guardian, school of attendance, social workers, and other agencies that can provide direction in helping adolescents regain sobriety.
Sexual and/or Physical Abuse
Sexual and/or Physical Abuse - A women's, which group will interact with each other and discuss the negative sides of sexual and/or physical abuse during their substance abuse usage and how it affects them now.
Relationships, Understanding Your Role
Relationships, Understanding Your Role - Are you in a relationship? Would you like to know what your role should or could be? These are questions that will be explored by men and women during this group. Movies, written material, group interaction will be very essential tools in this group.
Role Modeling
Role Modeling - Who is your role model; Father, Mother, Grandfather, Grandmother, friend(s), the man or lady next door, your counselor, teacher, etc? The definition of a role model will be discussed and bought into light in order to know what it is. Group interaction and a very strong facilitator will be an asset to this group for adolescents.
Adolescents and substance abuse
Adolescents and substance abuse - This group will be designed to give adolescents a clear picture of how substance abuse affects their lives now and in the future, if it continues.
HIV/Aids Education and Support
HIV/Aids Education and Support - This group will be designed provide education and prevention measures on HIV/Aids, as well as establish a support system for those participants that have contacted the disease.
All activities and services will lead to the development and completion of a treatment/recovery plan and will be documented in each participant's file.
Participants will be given information on what a recovery/treatment plan is and how it works in setting a foundation for recovery in their life.
What is it?
- It is a design, a map for traveling from how it is and has been, to how it might be.
- It is a personal acceptance of the responsibility to change.
- It is individual and yours.
- It is a plan of action to restore or repair what has been lost through substance abuse.
