Family Engagement Therapy Program:

1. Family Engagement Therapy Program: A Recovery-Oriented program

2. Principles to Recovery: • Many Pathways to Recovery • Recovery has Cultural Dimensions • Personal Recognition of Need for Change • Process of Healing and Self-Redefinition • Recovery is Holistic • Continuum of Improved Health and Wellness • Recovery Emerges from Hope and Gratitude • Supported by Peers and Allies • Addressing Discrimination and Stigma • Involves Re-joining and Re-building life in Community • Self-Directed and Empowering • Recovery is a Reality

3. Family Engagement Therapy Program: • Program Elements • Program Goals • Population Served • Common Characteristics of Families • Poverty • Trauma • Childhood abuse • Homelessness at some period of their life

4. What do you want to learn today?

5. Path to Recovery: • Seamless services • Person Centered approach • Not a “one-size fits all” program. • Client-identified goals • Motivational Interviewing • Addresses whole person • Ex: Healthy lifestyles, education, • Works with whole family • Physically meeting clients where they are at. • Community centers, parks, friends homes, etc

6. A few statistics: Race: 47% White 36% African American 5% American Indian Income: 46% <10,000 36% 10-19,999 Marital Status: 65% Single, divorced, separated, widowed 30% Married/LTP Assess cultural values and develop personalized services accordingly. On-going self-assessment “The Norm” to have childhood trauma experiences, family involvement with jail/prison, and transient patterns. Mental Health Stigma Medications H-FET Addressing cultural stigma of accepting responsibility for substance use. Staff diversity Cultural Sensitivity

7. Recovery is Holistic • Major focal points of service is full-body recovery, not just abstinence. • Importance of self care to take care of others • Educating selves on holistic practices • Acupuncture, Diet, Exercise (YMCA), etc • Coordination with other service providers (i.e. Doctors) • Referrals • Encourage care of dental, physical, and sexual health along with other medical needs. • Continual process

8. Improved Health and Wellness • Goal is to be able to sustain skills after services have closed. • Case Management and Advocacy • Emphasis on self-esteem • Teaching to respond to “curve balls” • Pain Management • Reframing • How will you learn from this?

9. Recovery Emerges from Hope/ Gratitude and Supported by Peers/ Allies: • Groups • Allows the opportunity to learn from others and that recovery is a possibility. Ex: Alumni, Love & Logic, etc • Case Management role in groups • Reframing • Small victories • Giving hope that they are not alone • Exploring Recovery Support Person • Connecting to community supports and encouraging other natural supports • AA, Faith-Based supports, etc.

10. Personal Recognition of the Need for Change: • Acknowledgement that change happens over time. • Utilization of Stage-matched approaches • Families are able to recognize problems • Wanting a better life • CPS/Probation involvement • Voluntarily seeking help for substance use issues • Home-based/Community Based

11. Recovery Involves a Process of Healing and Re-Definition: • Family therapy component allows for comprehensive healing. • Importance of family time • Games example • Helping to define a new “norm” • Boundaries • Families determine their own treatment goals and life priorities • Ex: Forming more positive support systems or distancing self from toxic relationships

12. Recovery Involves (Re) Joining and (Re) Building a Life in the Community • Being a role model for someone else • Journey of re-defining self • Program community relationships • Ability to provide gender-specific therapeutic approaches • Focus on Self; Having Hope

13. Recovery is Self-Directed and Empowering: • Client-driven change based on readiness and motivation • Partnership-Consultant Relationship • Models advocacy • Flexibility based on presenting needs • Mental Health • Substance Use • Family • Case Management Role • Life skills • Community Resources

14. Recovery is a Reality: • Giving hope that recovery is possible. • Emphasizes the life-long nature of recovery. • Long-term nature of program allows for services to follow between multiple levels of treatment, attempting to provide seamless care. • Offers support in the form of an “Alumni” group for those who have successfully maintained sobriety at the time of service closure. • “Action” Stage • Hopes- Recovery Coach

15. Families with Complex Needs: • Court Involvement • CPS • Probation • Mental Health factors • Treated or untreated • Substance Use • Single or multiple substances • Financial Strain • Complex children • Strained or lack of natural supports

16. Tools Commonly Utilized: • Motivational Interviewing • Seeking Safety • Love and Logic • “Eclectic” Toolbox • Emphasis on relationships

17. Challenges: • Not mandatory, but seeing increased number of “court-ordered” families • What do you do when someone does not want to stop using? • Tapping into clients motivations and reasons for program involvement • Balance- Paperwork! • Boundaries and Self Care!

18. How to Provide FET-Like Services: • Focus on program principles • Recovery-oriented mindset of staff

19. Nancy Murphy Contract Manager Nancym@network180.org 616-247-3815 Cathy Worthem Team Leader 616-459-7215 616-954-1991 Contact Information: