Our Interventionists, Intervention Coordinators, Family Recovery Coaches, and Administrative Staff Help Families and their Loved ones in Oregon with Addiction and Mental Health Disorders through our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services Program.

Addiction and Mental Health have been difficult for families to witness when someone close to them can’t seem to turn things around. Seeing a loved one struggle with no end may cause many to give up hope. The increase in addiction and mental health since 2020 has been overwhelming. The legalization of marijuana has created a surge in demand for our addiction and mental health intervention services in Oregon and elsewhere across the country. Regardless of the mental health disorder or the drug of choice, whether alcohol, marijuana, fentanyl, or methamphetamines, addiction and mental health take a toll on the ones suffering from it and equally as much on the ones who love them the most: their families. We wish there were more resources available and fewer drugs and alcohol available, but that is not the case. So, to help your loved one, we must help you first.

Many families in Oregon and just about everywhere else in the country are often told their loved ones must be the ones to ask for help, and nothing can be done until they do. Some say they must hit bottom before this happens, and there is some truth to these beliefs. Where we believe treatment fails is the lack of family education and involvement. Most treatment centers in Oregon and everywhere else have a watered-down version of a family program or a family week. Many Interventionists in Oregon and across the country deliver their intervention services the same way the treatment center does, focusing only on the addiction and mental health, and not including the family and the environment of the substance user or person with mental health concerns. Unfortunately, this is a big reason families watch their loved ones attend multiple treatment centers and have lost faith in interventions. If the only thing that changes is the person going to treatment, then it is almost inevitable that they will return home to the same environment and family system they left for a short time. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services in Oregon and Nationwide work with treatment centers, your family, and your loved one to build an integrated team to hold your loved one, the family, and the treatment center accountable for the outcome. We must avoid believing that the person going to treatment for thirty days only to return to the same backdrop with nothing else changing is a successful attempt at treatment. In the substance users’ defense, why wouldn’t they return to their old ways if nothing changes? The most successful way to increase mental health and addiction outcomes is to change everything. We have found that changing the environment, which is clinically proven to be one of the number one predictors of relapse and outcomes, and the family, which is a large part of the environment, leads to far more success stories than when family and environment are not addressed.

Why don’t treatment centers do this, you’re probably wondering. The answer is simple: they can’t charge or bill insurance for family programming. If families want to improve to increase their and their loved one’s chances for a successful outcome, they must first take charge of their recovery. When the family enters their recovery and holds the treatment center and their loved one accountable for the manipulative behaviors and sends their loved one off with an early and ineffective discharge, success rates increase.

How our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services and Family Recovery Coaching in Oregon Can Help Your Family and Your Loved One.

As stated in the information above, we bring the family into recovery. Starting with your first call, we attempt to help all concerned family members understand how our addiction and mental health intervention services work. Once your family has agreed to the intervention, we start our clinical assessment process. Utilizing the information provided by the family and the history of your loved one, we put together a treatment plan for you to approve before the intervention. Once we select the days and times for the two-to-three-day process of the face-to-face intervention, we choose the interventionists and arrange travel. Family First Intervention is an intervention services provider in Oregon and the United States. We may or may not use a professional interventionist in Oregon for your family and your loved one. One of the other significant predictors of addiction and mental health outcomes is the client/counselor relationship. Our local professional and other local Oregon interventionists you find may not be the best fit for your needs. Having several interventionists, we can select from a pool of talent to check all the boxes for what your family and loved one require.

Once our professional interventionist arrives in Oregon or anywhere else you require us to be, our interventionist and your family will process our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services and Family Recovery Coaching manual with all participants. Please be aware that your loved one needing help is not part of this stage, nor should they know the intervention is happening unless you and your intervention coordinator have discussed special arrangements. Throughout the family day, we will discuss the importance of your family recovery engagement after the intervention. Family First Intervention differs from every other intervention service provider in our work after the intervention, when families need us most.

Interventions are at their most challenging point three to five days after the intervention when the change and reality of what has happened sink in. As family systems repair themselves and the loved one with mental health or addiction starts detoxing and has their medication adjusted, they will come at the family in some form of volatile behavior. It is not if this happens; it is when this happens. To support you through this, our Family Recovery Coaching team will do an initial call after the intervention and get you on schedule with your assigned Family Recovery Coach once completed. In our S.A.F.E.® program, you will have access to several different groups, and if you are a regular participant and engaged in our program, you will have access to us individually for crises. The whole goal is to help you with your family’s recovery so you can better help your loved ones in their addiction and mental health recovery.

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.