“It’s not easy to be addicted to alcohol or other drugs and continue to function in life,” observed one of our clients. “The addiction sneaks up on you gradually. When you begin to realize that, an internal battle begins–quit and give up what you think is your best friend or try and hide it from everyone including yourself.”
For some, the solution is outpatient treatment in a comfortable, friendly environment, like ours on Church Street. Hospitalization or residential treatment are not needed for everyone to recover from addiction.
When clients begin the program they find support and new friends, friends who are not caught in the debilitating grips of alcoholism or drug addiction. “These new friends and the staff know just where you are mentally and emotionally, and just what you are feeling,” says one client. “They have been there. And they want to be there for you.”
Door to Hope’s Outpatient Program serves both men and women and offers them a structured alternative to more intensive residential care. Clients are in the program from three to four months and attend sessions two to three times per week. The program meets the requirements of Proposition 36 and Drug Court, and is a referral treatment program for the courts. Special perinatal services are offered for pregnant and post-partum women.
After the assessment period our empathetic and experienced staff develops individual treatment plans for each client. Myriad treatment tools are used including educational groups, and individual, group, and employment counseling. Of particular importance is Door to Hope’s capability to work with individuals with co-occurring psychological disorders, such as depression, anxiety and other mood disorders. Door to Hope’s Outpatient Program, like all our programs, is based on meeting clients where they are with the techniques, expertise and compassion to build the foundation for ongoing recovery.
Door To Hope has recently completed training through UCLA and has implemented the Matrix Model as its evidence based recovery curriculum.