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Treatment at South East Homes offers you the opportunity to gain education in regards to co-occurring diseases and learn how to live alcohol- and drug-free in a safe, supportive environment. Our program is a 90- to 120-day program or more according to your case plan. Because treatment at South East Homes is individualized, the amount of time for "completing" treatment may vary. Recovery from co-occurring diseases and alcohol/drug addiction is a lifelong process, to be taken one step at a time. Think of treatment as an opportunity to learn the basics of lifelong recovery.

To help you focus on your individual recovery, treatment at South East Homes is committed to diversity and is respectful of the clients we serve and their families. Cultural and gender-specific services are provided to enhance your overall care.

Because people need different kinds of services in different amounts and ways, your counselor will work with you to develop a treatment plan that addresses for your individual needs. One person's treatment plan will look different from another person's because each plan is individualized. When you first arrive at South East Homes, your counselor will work with you to come up with a master treatment plan that includes the goals that are important to you. When your treatment plan is developed, you and your counselor will both sign them in agreement.

As your treatment continues and your needs change, you and your counselor will work to evaluate and update your treatment plan. You will discuss your treatment goals and the activities you will choose to meet these goals. Each time you update your plan, you and your counselor will sign them.

Men’s Residential

Men’s Outpatient
Women’s Outpatient
Adolescent Outpatient
Continuing Care
Supportive Housing/GRH

TREATMENT SERVICES

Mental Health/Alcohol and Drug Education

Presentations, videos, discussions, activities, and exercises designed to increase your awareness and knowledge of yourself, mental health, alcohol and other drugs, and related issues. You will also learn about relapse prevention and how you can develop a drug-free lifestyle.

Dual Diagnosis Education

These groups are an individualized process oriented set of groups. Emphasis is placed on assisting clients in developing the needed skills in managing their day to day functioning as it relates to their mental health diagnosis.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

The focus of DBT is core mindfulness, a concept you will hear repeated again and again in all your groups and classes. Basically, being mindful is being present to the moment. It is focused, intentional awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, non-judgmentally. This class will provide you with concrete skills in each of the core mindfulness areas and help you to maintain your safety. Between classes, you will practice the skills and keep a daily record of their effectiveness using your DBT diary card.

CBT Skills

This cognitive behavioral therapy group helps our clients recognize shame as a universal experience and how to identify how our own thought patterns hold us back. Topics include defining shame, reframing experiences, exploring triggers and vulnerabilities, practicing critical awareness, reaching out to others creating, embracing, and inspiring change. Connections engage clients on a cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal level.

Narrative Therapy

This group explores your history in a way that allows you to see it as a source of strength and empowerment. It is developed with a focus on the importance of developing a healthy self-view for increasing self-esteem.

Trauma-Informed Therapy

This group designed to help people attain safety from Trauma/PTSD and substance use. It has also been used with people who have a trauma history, but do not meet criteria for PTSD. In this class you'll learn such things as: What safety means to you and how to recognize when you're not safe, how to identify and manage symptoms related to past trauma, how to ask forhelp, and how to practice compassionate self-talk.

12 Step Study Support

How to utilize 12 step recovery and support. Looking at the 12 step programs and how it relates to treatment and on-going recovery.

Relapse Prevention

The focus of this group is to recognize your own relapse cycles, triggers, and warning signs. You will view videos, have class discussions and do homework to help yourself escape the cycle of addiction.

Health

Learn how to take care of your body: how to get good medical and dental care, how to stop smoking, and how to sleep and eat well in recovery.

Healthy Relationships

This group focuses on building healthy relationships by exploring communication skills, conflict resolution, and tools for doing no harm.

Meditation and Recreation

In these groups you will learn and practice how to quiet your mind, relax your body and listen to the wisdom within.

Recovery Mindset

This group will help you learn new ways of getting your needs met and letting go of old behaviors and thought patterns that may have led to your legal problems.

Family Support

This group explores how chemical use impacts clients psychologically, physically and emotionally and how this affects relationship dynamics.

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Nicotine Cessation

Step by step, staff can help stop your nicotine use. Sugarless candy is available at the staff desk when others go out on scheduled smoke breaks. Staff will help you develop skills, breathe easier, and lower your risk of cancer, heart disease, and other serious illnesses.

Anger Mindfulness

Learn how to use DBT and other mindfulness skills to help with feelings of anger and urges to act out on your anger. You will also gain increased awareness of your own style and patterns of anger and how they relate to your addiction.

Domestic Violence

In this class you will learn about cycles of family violence. You will also learn about different types of abuse, physical, mental, emotional, verbal, and sexual. This is an educational class not a process group. The class focus will be: raising your awareness, recognizing your patterns, and keeping yourself safe.

Recovery Engagement

You will attend this class during your first week of treatment. Faculty rules are discussed, and you have an opportunity to ask questions about your treatment experience.

Big Book Study

Ongoing recovery requires a continual focus on moving forward while avoiding past patterns of living that form the addict’s old style, utilizing the Big Book will provide you with programming to nourish your spirit.

Transitions

In this class, clients explore the process of transition and how it relates to making change in their life. Clients learn the step-by-step process of the transition process, skills they can use, and group discuss for how to negotiate this process.

Additional Weekly Groups Include

Spirituality Groups

These groups focus on addiction and religion.

Culturally Specific Peer Groups

These groups offer people an opportunity to come together and talk about recovery from their varied points of view.

Somali American Recovery Support Groups

This is a Somali speaking group and is provided via conference line.

Cultural Music Therapy

This group utilizes East African/Somali music to work on self-identity, recovery, and self-esteem through poetry, singing, playing music, and dance.

Alumni Group Meeting

This is a group of peer leaders, who have established themselves as recovering persons and are still participating in Continuing Care at South East Homes. This group meets 1 time a week and the emphasis is placed on assisting clients in developing a positive and therapeutic community through peer leadership, while providing support to one another.

Transitioning to Outpatient

Treatment at South East Homes is individualized. There is no set or pre-determined amount of time for transitioning from residential to outpatient. Treatment for and recovery from alcohol and drug addiction is a lifelong process, one step at a time. Think of residential treatment as an opportunity to learn the basics of lifelong recovery.

Although clients occasionally leave South East Homes before transitioning to outpatient, for various reasons such as serious illness, most clients complete residential treatment and are referred to outpatient. The timing of your transition to outpatient will depend upon your reaching the treatment goals you will set, and upon your achieving and maintaining abstinence for a specified length of time.

Planning for your transition to outpatient actually begins soon after your admission. If you are to maintain your sobriety, you will need to have a plan based on your strengths, needs, abilities and preferences. Within a few days of beginning treatment, your counselor will meet with you to begin development of your Recovery Plan, which will help you to develop goals and to guide your own treatment.

Recovery from chemical dependency is an ongoing, conscious process requiring continuing attention. It is not a condition reached at the end of treatment. The quality of your sobriety will depend on your willingness to make sincere efforts in many areas. And with a solid recovery, you will regain the freedom to make choices and rediscover peace of mind - or discover it for the first time.