Our Recovery Program

The established peer-support model that uses the 12 steps to successfully abstain from alcohol and drugs, and achieve long-term recovery. (Reference for more information)

Helps influence the client’s attitudes, understanding, and behaviors associated with drug and alcohol use. (Reference)

Individualized counseling helps the patient develop coping strategies and tools to abstain from drug and alcohol use and maintain abstinence. Group counseling offers social reinforcement of a drug-free lifestyle through peer discussions. (Reference)

Addresses how to create a substance-free home environment, family roles that support addiction (e.g., enabling, co-dependency), as well as relationship issues that can be triggers for relapse. (Reference)

One of the most highly-recognized relapse prevention programs, which has been shown effective with different addictions and across multiple populations. (Gorski’s Website)

Participants learn to recognize their emotional responses to people, places, actions, and other triggers, and learn new behaviors and responses. (Reference)

Builds new social networks and creates a new community of clean and sober friends, which are important to initial recovery and ongoing sobriety and abstinence. This is especially critical when current social networks include friends and family who drink and use. (Reference)

We operate sober living/continuing care apartments for a total of eight men across the street from Heartland House. This facility provides more stability for men without sufficient family or social supports during the transition period after graduation from Heartland House. These men live more independently and stay up to 24 months.

An approach that uses compassion and understanding to help individuals become willing to “do the work” of recovery. (Reference)

Identifies the client’s most important goals for treatment, describes measurable, time-sensitive steps towards achieving those goals, and creates a treatment plan agreement between the counselor and client. The plan is composed of Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-limited goals. (Reference)

A relapse prevention strategy that helps clients identify problem behaviors and develop effective coping strategies. (Reference)

Can help clients who are unsure and haven’t committed to stopping their use of alcohol or drugs. It can help patients more fully engage in treatment and improve their results. (Reference)

Uses mindfulness and other tools to help clients address depression, anxiety and other emotional conditions that challenge recovery efforts. (Reference)

A personal counselor who helps each man manage referrals and navigate systems to receive any outside physical and behavioral health treatment, and connect with community resources. (Reference)

May be prescribed by doctors in some cases to help manage withdrawal so that an individual can better focus on their recovery program. (References: for alcohol, for opioids)

Provides education and connection to treatment for residents who have contracted these illnesses through intravenous drug use, homelessness with unprotected sex, or other activities.

Financial problems can be a trigger for relapse. This program helps residents learn ways to rebuild their financial health, to stabilize their lives, and make needed amends.

There is also a high correlation between alcoholism and smoking, and illicit drug use and cigarette smoking. Smoking cessation can bring significant health improvements and eliminate a trigger for returning to drinking and using. (Reference)

A higher percentage of individuals with substance abuse disorders also have gambling addictions. Uncontrolled gambling can lead to financial, family, emotional and employment challenges, which can create the kind of pressure that may trigger relapse.