Transcript THE HEALING PLACE

THE HEALING PLACE
MODEL ADDICTION
SHELTER HOMELESS
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1989 Incorporated first program as
Jefferson County Medical Society
Outreach Program
1990 Program started as overnight
facility for Homeless Alcoholics
1992 Plans started for Men’s Recovery
Program
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1992 – 1993 Donations of $100,000
from city, country and individual
Humana Insurance $100,000 over 4
years
Board of Directors $100,000
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1995 Started First Program for Women
with Women’s Shelter opened
1996 Opened Transitional Houses for
Men
1997 Opened Program of Recovery for
Women
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1998 Opened another transitional house
for men.
2000-2004 Increased Capacity for men
and recovery programs as well as
transitional housing
2000-2004 Increased Capacity got
women as well as transitional housing
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Governor of Kentucky selects it as state model and
provides state money to start 10 more around the
state
2005 Money provided for 10 replications of the
program across Kentucky
2006 Model becomes well known selected by the
President’s White House Commission as a POINT OF
LIGHT signifying it as one of the distinguished
programs in America (not only drug use)
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2006-2009 Replications in other states
start
Replications now in Richmond Virginia,
Washington, D.C., Raleigh, North
Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnisota
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2008 First out of country consultation –
Russia
2009 -2010 Plans developed to create a
program very similar to the one at
Healing Place in Belgorod, Russia
2010 New Womens Building
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Next year the program will open a 19
million dollar facility that will house 40
women and their children for up to 1
year in a campus like area
It is a state of the art building and
grounds that is ecologically sound.
Facility built mainly from donationsl.
THE HEALING PLACE
MISSION STATEMENT
To Reach the homeless, offer
Recovery for the addicted, and
help Restore productive lives.
Reach
Recover
Restore
Characteristics of alcoholic and addicted
homeless men and women- Strengths
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Intelligent
Creative
Sensitive
Focused
Driven
Fierce determination
Characteristics of alcoholic and addicted
homeless men and women- Barriers
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Fear
Guilt
Discouraged
Confused
Lost
Ashamed
Resentful
Victim
Delusional
Despair
THE HEALING PLACE
provides:
• Emergency Shelter of 120 beds for men
• Emergency Shelter of 24 beds for women
• Sobering-Up Center of 24 beds for men
• Sobering-Up Center of 13 beds for women
• Recovery Program of 85 beds for men
• Recovery Program of 30 beds for women
THE HEALING PLACE
STATISTICS
YEAR
MEALS AVE* BEDS
1992/93
87,819
241
34,047
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1993/94
209,281
573
61,931
170
2003/4
342,104
938
114,368
314
* Average count per day
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THE HEALING PLACE
STATISTICS
EMERGENCY SHELTER-MEN
Unduplicated count:
1994 - 1,313
2004 –1,906
SOBERING-UP CENTER - MEN
Unduplicated count:
1994 - 1,187
2004 – 2,007
THE HEALING PLACE
WINNERS
Successful Graduates
01/93 – 06/04 1,307 Men
64% remaining sober first year
08/95 – 06/04
212 Women
66% remaining sober first year
Indigent/Homeless Recovery Model
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Commitment and priority
Hybrid therapeutic community process model
24 hour accountability by peers
Peer driven – peer counselors
Begin with basic behaviors
Perks and rewards-vs-requirements
Motivational track – Day Center
Recovery Dynamics and the 12 Steps
Health care
Continuing care
LEVELS OF SERVICE
PERM/APTS
1/2-3/4 HOUSE
ALUMNI/SILVER CHIP
RECOVERY PHASE
Life on Life’s Terms
Continuing Care
OFF THE STREET II
OFF THE STREET I
OVERNIGHT
SOBERING-UP/DETOX
NON-RESIDENT
Healing Centers
Medical Clinics
Community Meetings
Critical Elements of the Model
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1. Guide & direct client thru 12 Steps
to find Higher Power
2.Teach Recovery Dynamics
3. Hybrid therapeutic peer community
4. Role model social skills & positive
change
5. Accountability 24/7 self & others
Critical Elements con’t
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6. Keep focus on recovery first
7. Ownership of the disease
8. Empowerment/self-determination
9. Attraction
10. Self-governance
11. Peer teaching
12. Working with others
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13. Sharing experience, strength, &
hope
14. Client Supervisors
15.Action/motivation
16. Responsibility
17. Self-paced/ Individual progress
18. Recovery based
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19. Zero tolerance:
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A. Drug/alcohol use
B. Violence
C. Racism
D. Sexual acting out
E. Stealing
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20. Meeting people where they are at
21. “Loving people to life”
22. “I am my brother’s keeper”
23. Unconditional love for the individual
– confront behavior
24. Long-term intense residential
recovery program in an emer. shelter
Critical Elements con’t
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25. Prevention education
26. Service on demand – unlimited
access to services: all as appropriate
THE HEALING PLACE
TOTAL PROGRAM COST
$ 25.00 per person per day
City and County (taxpayer) cost of caring for one
alcoholic:
•Arrest and retention for less than 4 hours
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•Jail cost per day
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•Jail cost with work release
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•State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Detox
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•State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Resident
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•Local hospital ER
$
35.00
58.00
27.50
265.00
215.00
275.00
EFFECTIVE ALCOHOL/DRUG
RECOVERY ORIENTED PROGRAM
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1. Establish clear concise 
policy re: use
2. Develop comprehensive 
assessment
3. Establish in-house jobs 
program
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4. Develop perks and benefits
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for progress
5. Mutual supportive living
environment
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6. Determine program
capacity
7. Motivational tracks pre-program
8. Identify Medical
Director-Volunteer
9. Dual-Diagnosed clients
program
10. Staffing pattern
11. Required and
suggested books and
materials
12. Administrative
paperwork
SUMMARY
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Cost effective program $25 per day
compared to $250 per day
Saves taxpayers more than $7 Million
per year in Emergency Room and other
hospital costs
Saves $13 Million in Judicial and Court
costs
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Free Health Services Clinic providing
thousands of patient visits and
prescriptions per year
Unique Parent Reunification and Child
Development Program that positively
impacts 120 at-risk children per year
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Offers comprehensive continuing care
that includes job placement, housing,
education, assistance with legal and
medical issues and family reunification
Nationally recognized as a “Model that
Works” by the US. Department of
Health and Human Services
THE HEALING PLACE
MODEL ADDICTION
SHELTER HOMELESS