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Addiction and Mental Health Disorder Intervention Services in Connecticut
Interventionists In Connecticut
Families across Connecticut often feel stuck between helping and enabling when dealing with addiction or mental health issues. Family First Intervention provides clarity and direction through a structured intervention approach.
Our S.A.F.E.® program helps families understand their role in recovery and take meaningful action.
Families in Connecticut can address their loved ones’ Addiction and Mental Health Concerns through our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services and Family Recovery Coaching Program.
Mental Health and Addiction are among the few problems one can have in which almost everyone you speak with seems to be an expert. Families of loved ones with addiction problems are often told by people that their loved ones must ask for help or hit bottom before any real change happens. It is easy for them to offer this advice when they are not the ones in your shoes, living out the nightmare every day. Families in Connecticut and Nationwide do not and should not have to wait for someone to do something before they can breathe and restore their sanity. When a family is told they must wait for their loved one, they are told to let the person with addiction and mental health struggles figure it out before they can regain their life. This belief has some truth to it, and asking for help, wanting help, or hitting bottom will most likely not occur if nothing else changes. Sure, there may be road bumps and problems that assist your loved one in wanting to do something different at that moment due to a short-lived crisis, which often quickly wears off. So, how does one see the need for change and feel the consequences in the long term? The answer is by becoming uncomfortable in their environment and the family taking charge and entering their recovery program. The best part is that the family doesn’t have to wait for their loved one with addiction and mental health disorders to take the first step; they can put the first foot forward.
Our team of professional interventionists, intervention coordinators, and family recovery coaches all work together to help families navigate the struggles of their loved one’s mental health, addiction, and behavioral problems. Our Connecticut Intervention Services are not aggressive speech like what’s seen on television. We work with families from the inside out to address the issue. Families know where they are; we help them see how they arrived and how to get out.
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How our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services work for Addiction and Mental Health.
Whether your family is in Connecticut or elsewhere, we visit you for face-to-face intervention with your loved one. Before meeting with your loved one, you will work with an Intervention Coordinator who will set everything up. On the first call, our goal is to help all those involved, excluding the person needing help, to agree to an intervention for their loved one. We then staff your case, and a clinical assessment takes place to prepare a treatment plan for your loved one. We assign your professional addiction and mental health interventionist as part of the staffing and assessment. Once your interventionist arrives, they will spend significant time educating and preparing your family. The preparation is about more than just the intervention the next day. Much of the preparation is for what will happen to your family and loved ones after the intervention.
Families nationwide often believe we are coming to talk their loved ones into treatment. Inspiring your loved one to seek help is undoubtedly part of the intervention. Equally important is the family following through with our S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery Coaching. Interventions are at the most challenging point, days after the intervention, whether your loved one accepts or refuses help. The change that has just occurred due to addiction and mental health intervention inevitably causes emotions to stir. As the broken family system starts to repair, we will hold your hand through this difficult time. Intervention services that do not focus on this vital part of the intervention are not helping your family put itself back together. Our job would be easy if it were as simple as your loved one only going to treatment.
Initial Consultation
Our process starts with a phone call to our office. When the family agrees, we move to a family consultation call. We begin the assessment phase after the family has approved the intervention.
Arranging the Treatment Plan and the Logistics for the Intervention
The next step is arranging the treatment plan and the logistics for the intervention. Upon arrival, our interventionist utilizes our S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching manual as a guide.
Face-To-Face Intervention
The following day is the face-to-face intervention with your family, the interventionist, and your loved one. Regardless of the outcome, your family will move into our S.A.F.E.® program for guidance and support. The S.A.F.E.® curriculum consists of weekly family meetings with several support groups offered throughout the week. One-on-one support is available and reserved for families actively engaged in our meetings and support groups. Families are assigned homework assignments to work on goals and process the work they do for themselves outside of the S.A.F.E.® curriculum.
Outside Work for Families
The outside work can include Al-Anon, Families Anonymous, CoDA, A.C.O.A. meetings, marriage and family therapy, and individual counseling. We also encourage families to participate in hobbies and self-care activities. The S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services and Family Recovery Coaching program is designed to help families take their lives back, regardless of whether their loved one agrees to accept your gift of a second chance at life.
Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services Resources in Connecticut
Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching program is second to none when helping families navigate the trials and tribulations, not if but when they come after the intervention. Families in Connecticut have many options for interventionists, therapists, treatment centers, etc. Are the available resources in Connecticut able to meet the needs of your family and your unique dynamics? After our face-to-face intervention, our family aftercare curriculum is available online. Your family will meet weekly with one of our recovery coaches, and we are available in between appointments for individual calls regarding crises. In addition to these weekly meetings and individual calls, you can access several different groups offered. Our aftercare team will be meeting with your loved ones’ clinical team once a week. In doing so, we can address any discrepancies between what your loved one is saying to their treatment team and what they are saying to their family. Our program works best when families engage in the available recovery resources in Connecticut. These include Al-Anon, Families Anonymous, ACOA, CoDA, Open Alcoholics, and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. We also encourage individuals to seek out their therapist and a marriage counselor if the intervention includes a family participant who is a spouse or significant other.
At Family First Intervention, we not only offer the resources you need for your intervention, we also encourage you to take advantage of all the available resources in your area. The more significant and extensive the family’s treatment team, the greater the opportunity for success for your family and your loved one’s addiction and mental health treatment.
