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This course at The Healing Place equips individuals recovering from substance abuse with essential strategies for long-term change. By addressing underlying criminal behaviors and fostering personal responsibility, participants learn to navigate social systems and develop lifelong recovery practices. Activities like social skills training, community engagement, and partnerships with local agencies empower clients to connect with their environment positively. Through innovative programs and support networks, this initiative creates a pathway toward a healthier, substance-free life.
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Maximizing the Recovery Curriculum Pam Scott, CADC, CADAC II Steve Hanks and Reggie Ezell, CADC The Healing Place, Louisville KY
Errors In Thinking • “Whatever the underlying causes of criminality, the criminal who is a substance abuser will continue criminal behavior unless his thinking changes. The criminal needs both a program of recovery from substance abuse and a way to think and act responsibly. Sober up a horse thief, and you still have a horse thief. And just as an addict needs lifelong recovery, so does a criminal need lifelong strategies for managing criminal tendencies. This course provides those strategies in a program that works with the toughest criminals.” • Beginning in detox • Increases accountability • Blocks in OTS • Tactics to avoid • Enhances twelve steps with more defined character defect identification Role Plays Ex. Power Thrusting
Mandatory “Fun” • Our program is designed to address the entire person, where our social activities were replaced by our active addiction • Everyone attends • teaches clients about playing and being kids, it’s never too late for a happy childhood • Creates opportunities for fellowship and practice social skills • Picnics in the park • Games Day (winter months) • Participating in outside events • Rally for Recovery • Patriot Game • Movie Day Events Alumni Block Party 2010
Advocacy • Creates opportunity and empowers clients to learn skills necessary to navigate our social systems. • Connecting with outside agencies • Educated local high school schools and alternative school students by speaking and defining addiction • Crisis Intervention Training with police • Provides a new look at law enforcement and is really a win/win • Art project with the ACLU • poetry-photography project helped draw clients out of their comfort zone • Medical Students • provides clients with more ability to translate information about their addictions • Support for Local Inmates • classes, meetings
Involving the AA/NA community • Introduction to tools of recovery maintenance by outside 12-step members • Traditions classes • Sponsorship classes • Sponsorship /Open house • Inviting people in to network with clients • Sponsors call in 5th and 9th step work
Referrals to outside agencies • Collaboration with clients in finding balance in addressing recovery and necessity for self-care • Medical • Psychiatry • Clinicians for counseling of family of origin issues • Education • Other twelve step programs ABA/C-straight
Garden • Utilized as job in the house that provides therapeutic value, interaction and bonding for the clients while learning new skills for independent living. • Investment in supporting the food budget and offering nutritional choices • Connection with local food distributors
Contact Information • Pam Scott, CADC, CADAC II • Director of Women’s Services, Louisville • 502-568-6680 • pam.scott@thehealingplace.org • Steve Hanks • Director of Men’s Services, Louisville • 502-585-4848 • steve.hanks@thehealingplace.org • Reggie Ezell, CADC • Program Director, Brady Center • 502-585-4848 • reggie.ezell@thehealingplace.org