Pre-Detox Program

We will provide a “pre-detox” program with workshops for people who are still using substances and have mental health issues with the goal to motivate them to enter a treatment facility. This type of program is missing from our community.

There are five stages of addiction recovery:

1. Precontemplation stage

2. Contemplation stage

3. Preparation stage

4. Action stage

5. Maintenance stage

To enter a recovery program people must be at stage four. Our program will take them from stage one to stage three. We will meet this goal by providing workshops, counselling & medical support by non-judgmental, stigma free relationship building, to deal with the trauma these individuals have experienced.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

(These workshops have been designed by one of our team, who has successfully conquered addiction and homelessness)

Mind set needed to enter a treatment facility

The role past trauma has played in your life

Recovering from trauma

Connection to addiction treatment and medical resources

How to reunite with family members

Family violence prevention

How to develop high self-esteem

How to eat healthy as possible on a next to nothing income

How to cope with everyday stressors

Cognitive behavioral techniques for everyday practice

Do it yourself self care

The role of counselling in recovery

Tips for when you're sober to be sober

Relapse can happen, don't beat yourself down. Ways to get back on track

Saying no is healthy. Ready set go lets say no!

Boundaries/goal setting. Setting them right

Emotional regulation

It only takes 10 mindful minutes

HIV/STD/HEP C information, care, treating

Change those habits

One day at a time

Medications to support recovery

Being okay with your past…. and your addiction

Know your limits - how to evaluate what you can and can't do

How to be a support for others

How to land that job, and keep it

THE TEAM AREA OF EXPERTISE

Blackfoot elder/counsellor (Our Elder is Bryan Yellowhorn whose picture is attached)

Psychiatric nurse

Licensed practical nurse

Addictions counsellors

Mental health/trauma counsellors

Accounting and admin

TEAM EXPERIENCE

• development and operation of medical outreach clinics specializing in addictions

• manager of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (past)

• development and delivery of addiction counselling programs

• Blackfoot culture and wellness programs for residential school abuse survivors

• accounting, project design and management

• justice support for people during court hearings

- our partnership with the Lethbridge John Howard Society and Kindness to Others Society will benefit from being able to help people from each organization

- at risk individuals who will develop the skills, tools and motivation to become sober and ready for referral into addictions treatment

- families who can be united and reunited

- participants connected with resources to support their treatment, including mental, physical health and trauma counselling

- participants who are referred to Alberta Health Services for outreach medical support including medications for alcohol and opioid use disorders and HIV/STD/Hep C medical treatments

- the southern Alberta community will benefit in that they will see people who are at risk have a plan to enter addiction treatment