Progressive Transition Back to Society
Synapsis
This program is aimed at clients who have 6 months to a year prior to being released from the institution and who will be re-entering the realms of their old community. The purpose of treatment is to further decrease the number of cases/clients that return into the system by providing them with the tools necessary to not engage in relapse.
A progressive treatment approach includes four curriculums, to include: Family Support (financial obligation to family that has been neglected due to absence from their lives, Filling the Inner Void (general and specific concepts on material possessions – why people have so many materialistic needs), Untangling relationships (co-dependency: teaching clients not to be co-dependent but rather independent), Job Readiness (post conversion into a dependent, defining those lines in terms of financial security and being independent).
Progressive treatment includes the following organization:
- Working on Filling the Inner Void throughout the year long program with the assistance and continuous collaboration with support system (to include clients within the group, their facilitator, and support system in the community) – client has to share letters/phone logs.
- Untangling Relationships (1st curriculum)
- Family Support and Job Readiness worked on simultaneously (Family Support also includes a lot of parenting concepts/values/ideals, however, it is not only for the population that has children as obligation to family can include obligation toward a mother figure or a sibling as well).
The treatment strategy utilized encompasses multi-directional approaches weekly in which clients receive education, support, skills/tools, security and safety, ability to plan/work on a realistic/measurable/attainable master goal plan for when they exit the institution and re-join the community.
Its purpose is to train the individual to recognize what tools to utilize in what situation in order to become and remain successful in the transformation/transition.
