Our Professional S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services in North Dakota Help Families with their Loved Ones who are Struggling with Addiction and Mental Health Disorders.

Families of loved ones with addiction and mental health disorders often struggle as much as the intended patient. After many years of living with the problem, it can become difficult to see past the life that has become the new normal. Clinicians and other professionals often tell families that this isn’t their fault; that is true, and not entirely true. What we mean by this is that families may not have caused the problem, and they certainly contribute to the problem, either staying the same or worsening. We are referring to enabling, codependency, maladaptive coping skills, and dysfunctional family roles. When a loved one is battling addiction and mental health disorders, families often take on unhealthy family roles with less-than-helpful ways to cope with stress and anxiety. Over time, these family roles become counterproductive to the loved one being able to see the need to address the problem.

The most challenging part of our curriculum for families in North Dakota and elsewhere is what happens after the intervention. Getting families to commit to addiction and mental health intervention is challenging enough. What happens after is why Family First Intervention has become the most extensive intervention services provider with the most in-depth family recovery coaching program available. What started as an intervention company has become a national family recovery coaching program. Families can access our curriculum in North Dakota or anywhere in the nation. Following face-to-face intervention with your loved one, our S.A.F.E.® intervention services support all family members and friends who choose to participate and who are affected by helping with the trials and tribulations of emotional volatility, as well as the turbulence of their loved ones’ addiction and mental health behaviors. Whether your loved one accepts help at the intervention or not, families will go through tremendous emotional challenges. Emotional volatility is primarily due to the profound impact of change. An intervention requires professionals to address the entire family and the intended patient. An intervention that only focuses on meeting with someone who needs addiction or mental health help is not an intervention; it is called a twelve-step call. If a speech is all you desire, then please go to your local Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meeting hall and ask the members there to come to your house to provide your loved one with a speech for free. Suppose you desire to do this correctly, focusing on why they are not hitting bottom, wanting, or asking for help. Our S.A.F.E.® professional addiction and mental health intervention services can help.

Interventionist Information and Resources for Addiction and Mental Health Disorders in North Dakota.

For those living in North Dakota, you are aware of your lack of resources for addiction, mental health, and interventionists. Although there are resources in North Dakota, as in every state, there needs to be more resources to help address the individual needs of your family and your loved one. Many are cookie-cutter resources designed around what a state or insurance company will reimburse. Sadly, funding often dictates today’s treatment, not clinicians’ and clients’ needs. Even if the resources in your area were sufficient, they would still be local resources, leaving your loved one with the ability to quickly leave treatment against medical or staff advice and return home. Another large predictor of unsuccessful outcomes is being around familiar people, places, and things. Local treatment has proved to contribute to the declining success rates of treatment. We are not saying it is impossible to get well locally. What we are saying is that when someone needs help and is part of a codependent, dysfunctional, enabling family system, it is much harder to succeed when you attend treatment near your family. 

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.