Pathways Treatment Services
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for addresses of all Pathways' offices and the specific services
available.
Pathways
Behavioral Services believes that alcoholism and other chemical dependencies are primary, progressive, chronic, and fatal diseases.
This concept of chemical dependency as a disease means the individual is
a victim of the illness just like an individual with cancer or
diabetes. Chemical dependency adversely affects individuals in mental,
physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and decision making areas of
life. Chemical dependency is characterized by loss of control,
recurring problems in major life areas, and changing priorities. The
denial and delusion that is characteristic of chemical dependency means
that often the chemically dependent individual is the last to recognize
the problem with chemicals.
Assessment/Evaluation
Pathways treatment
begins with an assessment/evaluation. A certified counselor evaluates
each client. During the evaluation, the counselor gathers information
from the client and uses standardized tools to help determine which
level of care and types of services would be appropriate for the
client. Based on the client's individual needs, the counselor may
recommend that he or she becomes involved in one of our prevention
programs, or one of our following listed treatment programs:
We provide OWI assessments at all of our offices. These are required by
the department of transportation to have your license renewed after
receiving an OWI. Please call any one of our offices.
Locations
DUI Education
Class
This 12 hour class is required by the department of transportation to
have your license renewed after an OWI. Cost of this class is $115.
Please call any one of our offices. Locations
Outpatient Treatment
The least
intensive level of care is outpatient counseling. It is the treatment of
choice for the majority of our clients. It allows the client to stay in
their home and attend work or school.
Intensive
Outpatient Programming (Level 2.1)
This is the most intense level
of outpatient counseling that we provide. It includes a combination
of group and individual counseling, for a total of nine or more
hours per week. Intensive Outpatient works to stabilize the client
and to begin teaching the tools of recovery. In order to better
accommodate the needs of the client, Intensive Outpatient groups are
offered in the morning and the evening. This allows the client to
access treatment while still maintaining family and work schedules
and meeting obligations that solidify behavior change, thus breaking
the cycle of substance abuse.
Extended
Outpatient Programming (Level 1)
This is the next step in
Pathways' continuum of care. Extended Outpatient treatment provides
from two to nine hours of treatment per week. Extended Outpatient
works to continue actualizing the tools of recovery. The Extended
Outpatient programming is also offered at a variety of times,
demonstrating Pathways' responsiveness to clients' needs.
Continuing Care Programming (Level 1)
This is the
lowest step in Pathways' continuum of care. Continuing Care
treatment provides from two to nine hours of treatment per week.
Continuing Care works to strengthen the client's understanding and
use of the tools of recovery and provides the client with relapse
information. This program is also offered at a variety of
times to best suit clients' needs.
Pathways Level 1- Adolescent
The adolescent program offers
a mixture of group and individual counseling with the focus on
values, relationships, phases of addiction, choices, emotions,
relapse, responsibility, friends, goals, self-image, attitudes,
independence, violence, and problem solving. Some adolescent
services take place on site at area high schools. On-site
programming addresses the problems of transportation and scheduling
which are common for adolescents.
Residential Treatment
For
clients in need of more intense and structured treatment services,
Pathways offers residential treatment. Pathways' residential 24-hour
treatment program is an 18-bed, male/female unit that serves clients 18
and older. Before a client is admitted to this residential care level,
a comprehensive assessment and plan of care is developed. Each client
is evaluated using an assessment instrument developed by the American
Society of Addictive Medicine (ASAM). The residential unit consists of
the following three levels of care:
Level 3.5 Residential Program
This is a structured, high-intensity, daily
program targeted at clients with the demonstrated inability to
maintain sobriety without a structured environment. Level 3.5
requires 50 hours of treatment activities per week and addresses all
aspects of chemical dependency. This level of care, through
education, self-disclosure, and problem solving, seeks to create
awareness in the individual, implement tools of recovery and foster
change that leads to a substance-free way of life.
Level 3.3 Residential Program
This is of medium intensity and requires 30
hours of treatment activities per week. The client requires less
supervision and begins to strengthen living skills and reintegration
into the community. The client must have established 14 to 21 days
of being substance-free before he or she can be admitted to this
level of care.
Level 3.1 Residential Program
This is a lower level of intensity that
requires five hours of treatment activities per week that is
included in a weekly, 32-hour activity plan. The client must have
established 21 to 30 days of being substance-free and display a need
to remain in a structured setting before full integration into the
community can be established. Strong emphasis is placed on creating
financial, environmental, and social stability to increase the
probability of long-term recovery.
Junkman/Knoebel Center
Transitional Housing-the Junkman-Knoebel Center
is a 25-bed men's and women's transitional housing unit developed by
Pathways Behavioral Services. Located in Waterloo, Black Hawk County,
the Junkman-Knoebel Center is the only transitional living program
specifically designed for persons in recovery from alcohol and/or drug
addiction residing in northeast Iowa. The Junkman-Knoebel Center
provides supervised transitional housing for offenders with alcohol
and/or drug addictions utilizing collaborative efforts of the medical,
social service and law enforcement community. The Center also
offers a structured environment where residents of the program develop
living skills needed to independently maintain their sobriety. The
program requires that residents: commit to sobriety (as monitored by
random urinalysis), demonstrate employment, and meet financial
obligations (i.e., court costs, fines, restitution, child support and
transitional living fees). |
