Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services & Family Recovery Coaching Curriculum in Indiana and Nationwide Helps those with Addiction and Mental Health Disorders to Ask for and Accept Help Before They Reach Their Bottom.

We will never forget Indiana, where Family First Intervention started. Our Founder and Clinical Director held his first position as an intervention coordinator for an intervention services company in Northwest Indiana. The experiences learned during this time have helped Family First Intervention develop into its current organization. After four years of witnessing what worked and what did not, the experiences of trials and tribulations allowed us to understand one thing: to help a loved one with an addiction or a mental health disorder, you must help the family first. Before Family First Intervention, we did interventions that only influenced the person to accept treatment. Very few, if any, interventionists include family support as part of their intervention services. The need for family support and the differences of opinions led our founder to move on and develop our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services program in Indiana. Today, our S.A.F.E.® program is offered and delivered nationwide every day.

The most challenging concept for families to believe is when we state that you do not have to wait for your loved one to ask for help, want help, or hit bottom. Almost anyone connected to someone with addiction or mental health struggles has heard these statements. Although there is some truth, it is a very shallow way to look at things. Certainly, someone must take the first step towards their recovery. The question we ask ourselves, and you are, is what prevents your loved one from asking for help, wanting help, or feeling the consequences of a bottom? The answers always, and yes, this is an absolute, always come back to comfort, tipping the decision for the one with addiction and mental health problems to choose not to seek help. The comfort that prevents this is almost always provided by their environment and their enabling and codependent dysfunctional family system. When we change the environment and the family that provides comfort, we change the perception, outlook, and decision of the one who needs help. Until the argument for change is greater than the argument for inaction, the person needing help will choose inaction.

How our Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services in Indiana and Nationwide work.

There are five stages of change in addiction recovery. These stages are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. The pivotal point of these stages is the second one, contemplation. In this stage, the person with a substance use or mental health disorder must see the need for change by way of ambivalence. The person does not move forward if the need for change is not recognized. Many families have heard that you can’t control addiction or a mental health disorder. Yet, the person reading this is most likely influenced by someone and their addiction or mental health disorder. While we can’t change the person directly, we can change the environment to create ambivalence, moving someone through the stages of change. When you think about it, your loved one needing help hasn’t changed you directly; they changed your environment, and then you changed, most likely not for the better. With our addiction and mental health disorder intervention services in Indiana and across the country, we educate families on how to turn the tables and take back their environment. In doing so, we lovingly hold your loved one accountable so they may see the negative consequences of their choices that otherwise would have fallen on you and your family.

Family First Intervention Services in Indiana and Nationwide go beyond inspiring your loved one to accept help. Although we are successful in doing so, we cannot accomplish this without the family and the environment changing, and that is where you come in. Even when we can bring someone to the point of surrender with our speech, we can rarely keep them on track unless the family starts their recovery, holds their loved one accountable, sets boundaries, and gets better themselves. Most interventionists only come and talk your loved one into treatment; many do an excellent job. The problem is, what happens next when your loved one tries to leave treatment or tries to turn the tables back around on your environment, just like it was before the intervention? What will you and your family do differently this time? Addiction and Mental Health affect the entire family. Any interventionist, mental health, or addiction professional, or clinician who only focuses on the patient is only focusing on a sliver of what needs to be corrected. 

At Family First Intervention, we learned the failures and the mistakes while working with other intervention companies. Our entire S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching Services is as much about what works as it is about what does not.

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.