Extended Care Program
St. Christopher's Extended Care program is an extension of primary treatment. We help our clients to develop sober living skills while guiding them through their personal and addiction issues. They continue to participate in group, individual and family counseling, become more integrated into the 12 Step community and begin to rely on the support of a healthy peer network. Relapse Prevention educates our clients on the nature of their addictive relationships to mood altering chemicals and warning signs of relapse.
Extended Care's caring and structured environment promotes broad emotional healing and resolution.
As clients transition into our Recovery Home, they use the skills they have gained to reintegrate into society's workplace or campus life.
While in Extended Care, the clients participate in education and process groups which cover topics such as:
CD (Chemical Dependency) Vocabulary- Feeling my Feelings
- Accepting the Disease
- Mental Obsession
- Urges and Cravings
- Rigid Negative Attitudes
- Relapse Process
- Powerlessness
- Physical Pathology
- Beginning of Recovery
Extended Care clients attend a minimum of seven AA/NA groups per week, obtain and work with a sponsor outside of our program in order to develop a working understanding of the steps and get involved in service work and 12 step fellowship.
Developing sober living skills is an integral part of the recovery process. Our clients are responsible for all their own shopping, cooking and cleaning. The clients live in a community setting and must collaborate with one another in order to get their needs met. They will learn the proper ways to budget money, balance their assignments and responsibilities and to handle life’s daily struggles clean and sober.
Physical well being is an important part of the recovery process as well. Clients are encouraged to develop healthier eating habits by engaging in a low caffeine, low sugar diet, practicing a vitamin therapy regimen and maintaining a healthy level of physical activity by attending the YMCA a minimum of three times per week.
Our Family Program offers family members an opportunity to be involved with their loved one’s treatment through healthy visitation and family therapy sessions.
** Clients who are medically stable and have completed a recognized and credentialed residential or primary treatment program elsewhere are welcome to join us in our Extended Care Program. Please call our Admissions Office at 877-782-4747 for information. **
Confidentiality Statement - As per Federal Confidentiality Regulations: all records, information and communications shall remain strictly confidential, except under the following circumstances: 1.) To authorized medical personnel, if a medical emergency exists, 2.) If the individual is a danger to themselves or others, 3.) Suspected instances of child abuse or neglect may exists, 4.) The individual or responsible party signs a release of information. Any violation of Federal Confidentiality Law and Regulations may be reported to the United States Attorney for the Judicial District in which the violation occurs.