OASAS or Educational Life Skills Training

Purpose: To create a framework for understanding battering. To gain a deeper knowledge of the dynamics of violence and the impact of their violence. To increase the participants’ willingness to change and explore their actions interests and beliefs.

Purpose: To educate parents on techniques to improve, strengthen and maintain a positive emotional relationship with their children. To encourage parent’s involvement in their children’s behavior, wellness and education at home in school and the community.

Purpose: To help those in recovery with their ongoing recovery program. To enhance the recovery process in a group setting. It allows the person in recovery to examine the impact his/her addiction has had on his/her life. It also gives them the opportunity to explore the importance of getting his/her needs met in recovery and to develop healthy relationships. It allows individuals to assess any past history of using after prolonged sobriety, and last but not least, how the individual can become responsible and accountable for their recovery process.

Purpose: To help those in recovery understand the lifestyle factors, urges and cravings can contribute to relapse. Specific interventions include identifying specific high-risk situations for each client and enhancing the client’s skills from coping with those situations, increasing the client’s self-efficacy, eliminating myths regarding alcohol effects, managing lapses, and restructuring the client’s perceptions of the relapse process.

Purpose: To teach and give knowledge about the effects of drug addiction. Identifying the medical consequences of using drug and alcohol, how the drugs/alcohol impact individuals socially, physically, and psychologically. To identify the symptoms of substance and alcohol abuse and dependence.

Purpose: To explore marijuana-related problems, identify realistic goals, and initiate change strategies. This process establishes trust and showing an accurate reflection of the clients concerns. Recovery from Marijuana requires making new choices involving healthier lifestyle patterns. This group addresses three main concerns:

1) Is it possible to be dependent on marijuana?

2) Do I want to stop using because of what I’ve experienced

3) Can I succeed in stopping, given the challenges I’ve faced in the past?

Purpose: To help those in recovery understand how drugs and alcohol and criminal conduct have much in common with each other. It is also helpful to learn basic skills and ways to spot the thoughts and actions that will lead to substance abuse and crime and to develop the skills to change destructive patterns of thought and behavior.

Purpose: For clients to understand duel diagnosis between Mental Illness and Chemical Dependency. By looking through the eyes of Biological, Psychological and Environment factors, client will have clarity of personal challenges from MICA curriculum. The building of support systems that includes coping skills enhances growth and provides a body of new knowledge that moves clients towards recovery.

Purpose: To educate clients on the harm of drinking and driving.  To help build knowledge around the rules, laws, and regulations of drinking and driving.