What Can I expect from Gatehouse Academy?
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Time: 4:22
Matt Brown (Admissions)
Matt: My Job is to basically work with families who are in a crisis Whethere their child has just come to them and asked or help or whether they see that there is a problem . And they’re searching the internet looking for answers trying to find some help for their son or daughter.
Anthony Marengo ( Director of Admissions)
Anthony: Many of our residents get to us because their parents have intervened in one way or another and said you need to or made that decision for their son or daughter. They often come here and they are angry or upset and they don’t want to be here. And we have a highly qualified staff, and really they are peers. The resident that’s been with six, seven, eight, nine months. That’s bought into the process engaging in recovery they work very hard to help that resident work through that anger and get into some of that acceptance and surrender that they need to be here with us.
Dan D. Sours (Clinical Director)
Dan: Our first priority is evaluating to find out what are the particular problems that this particular individual is dealing with in their life.
April Lane (Therapist)
April: There are three workshops, we have a workshop every three month. There is a sobriety workshop and there is an education workshop and we finish up with an integrity workshop.
Billy Greg (Director of Family Communications)
Greg: We use the stages of change to help explain to families what area of recovery their young person is engaged in.
Sours: On the group level , that’s a very strong part of our program because it gives the residents an opportunity to be exposed to others that understand how they think.
Brown: What we do in the admissions departments is really help families understand what it’s going to take to get their son or daughter help. Most of the time, I guess the number one question that I get asked is you know I see a problem with my son or with my daughter , I know that they are not going to get better on their own, how can I get them help if they don’t want it?
Lane: Often times the parents will bring their resident in and drop them off expecting us to fix them, and what the parents find out very quickly is that it’s a family disease it does not just affect the resident. That they have also been affected by the disease and addiction and there is a whole set of problems that they incur.
Sours: The backbone of what I think our clinical department is about and that is working with the families that come in here.
Greg: Gatehouse is a very proven approach with how to work with families. Our family workshop team is top notch, top shelf team of people that really help the family work the steps together. Over the course of the year.
Brown: A family has to be ready to do whatever it takes to get their son or daughter help. As a recovering addict myself, I know that my family had to go through some pretty extraordinary lengths to get me the help that I needed.
Lane: If the family is not onboard with that and not doing their own recovery, and if they don’t have the same information, they will inadvertently sabotage their resident’s recovery.
Sours: Prior to the residents arriving most families, like many families have moved into a control position. They don’t know what to do. How do they solve this problem?
Lane: And how they’ll do that, they won’t do it on purpose. What they will do is through love. They will enable them. They will make excuses for them. They will, not meaning to, they will sabotage recovery.
Brown: The biggest goal we have in the admissions department here at Gatehouse is not so much convince families Gatehouse is the right program. It is or it isn’t, and if it is we want to help the families that give us a call. If Gatehouse isn’t the right program for the families we talk to, we want to help them find the program that is the right fit for them.
Lane: There’s hope and that there’s healing. And that there are other people in your shoes, you’re not alone.
Answer your child’s cry for help. Call Gatehouse Academy now at 877-730-0905
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