1. Shootout at the I’m Okay Corral
The “Open Community Model of Care” in the
Treatment of Chronic Relapsing Addicts and Alcoholics
Bob Ferguson
CEO / Founder, Jaywalker Lodge
Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders
September 8, 2012
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2. Disclosure
Jaywalker Lodge, LLC is a residential treatment
program for men in Carbondale, Colorado.
It is a private, for-profit company.
I am the owner and founder of this company.
I represent this organization professionally.
I am paid by this organization.
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3. Personal Bio
• Hazelden Foundation (1995 – 2001)
• Crossroads Antigua (2001 – 2003)
• Promises Treatment Centers (2003 – 2004)
• Jaywalker Lodge
(est. 2005)
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4. William White, MA
With great sadness, the counselor reflects, “The patients
who come here do SO WELL while they are in treatment,
but so many of them relapse in the days and weeks
following their discharge. We bring them back into
treatment and they seem to do well again but often repeat
the relapse pattern when they go back home. How can
they do so well in treatment and so poorly in their natural
environments?”
Addiction treatment was birthed in part to eliminate the revolving door through
which alcoholics and addicts cycled through the criminal justice system and the
hospitals. Addiction treatment programs have now BECOME that revolving door.
Today, 64% of clients entering publically funded treatment in the US have
already had one or more prior treatments. And 50% will be readmitted to
treatment within 2 – 5 years.
“Linking Addiction Treatment and Communities of Recovery” Article 2006
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5. How It
Into Action
Overview Works
Working A Vision
with Others for You
The Open Community Model of Care provides
relapsing addicts and alcoholics - some of whom are
in very early recovery – with the prospect of a safe
and sober transition from acute residential care into
real life in recovery…
And yet, these gains are not achieved without
significant exposure to real-world stressors and
opportunities for relapse.
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6. How It
Into Action
Works
Objectives A Vision
Working
with Others for You
• Articulate the critical differences between primary care
and extended care addiction treatment.
• Examine the milieu and transition strategies for
transitioning patients from an acute care setting into real
life recovery.
• Explore the vital and evolving role of alumni relations
and community service in residential treatment today.
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7. Yes or No? How it works
There is a direct and
indisputable correlation
between length of stay in
residential treatment and
the sober outcomes.
8. Yes AND No How it works
Some clients DO require
more time in an acute care
setting… However, simply
extending the length of
treatment without moving
the client into a real-life
community setting assures
only continuous
abstinence, not recovery.
9. How it
works
PRIMARY CARE
Arresting Addiction
Education
Counselor directed
Secluded setting
Intro to 12 Steps
Safe, secluded time out from EXTENDED CARE
life’s distractions
Initiating Life in Recovery
Application
Letting go of substances Peer directed
Community setting
12 Step Immersion
Structured, hectic re-entry into
real life recovery
Letting go of self
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10. How it works
“ It is important to define and distinguish between two
very different models of care: an acute care (AC)
model that focuses on bio psychosocial stabilization
and a recovery management model (RM) that
emphasizes sustained recovery support. As a
professional field, we have oversold what a single
episode of acute care can achieve…
- William White
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11. Into
True or not true? Action
Chronic relapsing addicts and
alcoholics in early recovery
require a treatment setting that is
safe, secluded, and free from
outside distractions and relapse
triggers.
It is therefore essential to maintain
separation between a residential
treatment program and the
community around it.
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12. Into
True or not true? Action
In order to achieve
lasting and
sustainable sobriety,
clients must learn to
manage an
environment which
offers a daily choice
between relapse or
recovery.
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13. E
A – Extended Treatment
811 Main Court (90 days)
B – Transitional Treatment A B
725 Main Street (90 days)
C – Collegiate Recovery
Program 734 Main St. (1 yr)
D – Outpatient Offices
C
1152 Hwy 133 (90 days)
E – Sober Living / Landing
872 Main St. (3 – 6 mos.)
Carbondale, CO
Population 6,412
D
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14. Into
Myth or reality? Action
The therapeutic alliance between counselor and
patient is the most important relationship in any
treatment episode.
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15. Into
Myth or reality? Action
In extended care
programs, the
counselor’s role is
to facilitate strong
relationships among
the clients – not with
the clients. These
programs value the
peer-to-peer
relationship above
all else.
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16. How it works
Self Peers Community
Detox Recreation Service Work
Body Stabilization Expeditions Teams / Leagues
Rest / Recover Team Building Health Club
Education Step One Focus 12 Steps Groups
Mind Disease Model Peer Evaluation Service Position
Denial Buddy System Sponsorship
Concept of HP Group as HP 12 Steps in Action
Spirit Spiritual principals Accountability to peers Service to others
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17. Into
Open Community Milieu* Action
• Admissions
Red Flags
• Culture of
Community
• 12 Step
Immersion
• Atypical
discharges * Lessons we’ve learned along the way…
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18. Into
Open Community Milieu Action
Admissions Requirements for Open Community Model
Pre-Admissions Interview
• Clinical assessment – Is this patient
appropriate?
• Essential rite of passage for patient: i.e.
Asking for help!
Full disclosure: “no surprises”
• Program milieu, philosophy, length of stay
• Resident expectations – medications,
relapse, etc.
Admission Red Flags
• No previous Primary Care episode
• Acute MH Diagnoses – Trauma, Anti-
social, Axis 2
• Suboxone
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19. Into
Action
Broken Windows Theory (1982)
New York City saw a 50% reduction in violent
crimes (such as murder, rape and robbery) as
the result of a “community policing”
campaign which focused repairing broken
windows, cleaning up graffiti, and a crack
down on minor offenses such as subway fare-
scoffers and squeegee-wielding panhandlers.
* But the Jets STILL didn’t make the playoffs!
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20. Into
Open Community Milieu Action
The spiritual dashboard...Dashboard
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Compliance %
AA Meetings 2 5 15 9 10 18 9 94%
TDA's 18 18 15 16 18 17 18 96%
Dinner attendance 18 18 18 17 18 18 17 98%
Beds Made 18 18 16 18 18 18 17 97%
DFS Sheets 16 16 13 18 18 10 14 83%
Morning Meditation 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 100%
Based on 18 clients
21. Into
Open Community Milieu Action
Completion Rates – 90 day program
Census WSA % Avg LOS Relapse
178
153 159
145
64 71 64 65 62 71 63 69
14 7 10 10.3
2009 2010 2011 Avg
22. Into
Open Community Milieu Action
Immersion in Local 12 Step Community
• Monitored engagement w. 12 Step community
• FCSP – Weekly speaker meeting
• NFL – No rides permitted & sponsor list
• Safe Harbor House – Wednesday night alumni meeting
• Not all recovery communities are created equal
• Prescott, Delray Beach, So. Cal., Twin Cities.
24. Working
Alumni Engagement with Others
Role of Alumni in Open Community Model
Official Duties
Airport pickups
Meeting drivers
Expedition guides
Unofficial Duties
12 Step sponsors
SWAT teams
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25. Working
Alumni Engagement with Others
Alumni-driven culture
• Peer directed aftercare groups
• Wednesday night dinners
• Expeditions (2x per year)
• Reunions (annual)
• Talent show
• Open door policies for:
• Counselor check ins
• Lunch or breakfast
• Recreation activities
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26. Working
Community Service with Others
Therapeutic Benefits of Service Work
• Fundamental to
recovery process
• Community Relations
• Practical Programming
• Mission and Adventure
Component
The Aspen Homeless Shelter
CARE (Animal Rescue)
Habitat for Humanity
Aspen Thrift Store (Clothes for the needy)
Volunteer Outdoor Colorado
Grand Canyon Trust
Mission Wolf
Pine Ridge Reservation
Adopt a Highway
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers
Extended Table (Soup Kitchen for the Homeless)
Assisting in the Rebuild of Joplin, MO
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27. Working
with others
Service
Effective (+) Ineffective (-)
• Experience = educational • Experience = punitive
• Adopt-A-Highway • Sustainable Settings
• Extended Table Soup Kitchen
• Set up for sweat lodge
• Organized, structured • Random, unprepared, disorg
anized, not structured
• Staff and community
participate with and among • Clients are
clients separated, isolated, working
alone.
• Prior preparation, supervision
during, process experience
afterwards • Lack of information
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28. A Vision
for You
What’s next?
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I want to leave you with FOUR key ideas at the end of our talk today.Start out with the iPod shuffle story. The morale: Extended Care is no more a step down from primary than the iPhone is a step down from a personal computer. We will be zooming in on the part of the continuum that lives in between primary acute care and independent living in the recovery community.Take some risks – who says they can’t?? Your patients are amazing if you just give them a challenge and if you’re willing to take a chance or two.It’s never over – alumni have been treated as an afterthought, but now we realize they are at the very center of our program. Do not simply focus on the recovery community – focus on the ENTIRE community at large. They provide your structure, your curriculum, and if you just pay attention to them, they will LOVE you!!Steve Jobs – famously said we are innovators, therefore we don’t have competitors.
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
Here is the great news about the evolution of treatment as I see it unfolding in real time before our eyes: As an industry we have held fast to the holistic principals of Body, Mind, Spirit which take their roots in the Minnesota Model when a handful of recovering drunks and doctors left Wilmar State Hospital and founded the Hazelden program together in 1949. Body + Mind + Spirit = is a sacred and enduring principal in our field even today. Multidisciplinary teams continue to flourish, although outside factors such as managed care and an ever shifting payer mix have produced a dynamic tension between who leads that team… ie. The primary care addiction counselor of the guy in the white jacket with his prescription pad. But THAT is a talk for another day.The question for us today is how does – or how should – the holistic approach (body, mind, spirit) be adjusted or recalibrated as we move down the continuum of care from acute primary treatment to extended relapse treatment
Here is the great news about the evolution of treatment as I see it unfolding in real time before our eyes: As an industry we have held fast to the holistic principals of Body, Mind, Spirit which take their roots in the Minnesota Model when a handful of recovering drunks and doctors left Wilmar State Hospital and founded the Hazelden program together in 1949. Body + Mind + Spirit = is a sacred and enduring principal in our field even today. Multidisciplinary teams continue to flourish, although outside factors such as managed care and an ever shifting payer mix have produced a dynamic tension between who leads that team… ie. The primary care addiction counselor of the guy in the white jacket with his prescription pad. But THAT is a talk for another day.The question for us today is how does – or how should – the holistic approach (body, mind, spirit) be adjusted or recalibrated as we move down the continuum of care from acute primary treatment to extended relapse treatment
This is a discussion about the very fundamental differences between programs designed to stop addiction, and those designed to start recovery.William White puts it this way:Circa 2006 “Linking addiction treatment and communities of recovery”Completion of addiction treatment AND participation with recovery mutual aid groups is more predictive of long-term recovery than either one of these alone.
PROBLEM STATEMENTMy dad once told me that treatment is just a very time consuming and expensive way for stubborn people to discover that AA meetings are free.TELL STORY HERE: My final and most spectacular relapse was filled with shame and desperation. The PARTY was OVER… (Tour and Travel News)But why? A. Failure to grasp step one and B. I was still on my own… emotionally isolated even in a room full of people.William White puts it this way in his2008 research findings entitled Recovery Oriented Systems of CareIt is important to define and distinguish between two very different models of care: an acute care (AC) model that focuses on bio psychosocial stabilization and a recovery management model (RM) that emphasizes sustained recovery support. The historical tension between these models is reaching a tipping point, and the stakes involve in the outcome are quite high. As a professional field, we have oversold what a single episode of acute care can achieve for the more than 2 million individuals enter addiction treatment programs each year in the US.
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
Here is the great news about the evolution of treatment as I see it unfolding in real time before our eyes: As an industry we have held fast to the holistic principals of Body, Mind, Spirit which take their roots in the Minnesota Model when a handful of recovering drunks and doctors left Wilmar State Hospital and founded the Hazelden program together in 1949. Body + Mind + Spirit = is a sacred and enduring principal in our field even today. Multidisciplinary teams continue to flourish, although outside factors such as managed care and an ever shifting payer mix have produced a dynamic tension between who leads that team… ie. The primary care addiction counselor of the guy in the white jacket with his prescription pad. But THAT is a talk for another day.The question for us today is how does – or how should – the holistic approach (body, mind, spirit) be adjusted or recalibrated as we move down the continuum of care from acute primary treatment to extended relapse treatment
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
I am going to talk about the continuum of care – specifically that part of the continuum between the end of primary care treatment and before sustainable and autonomous recovery in the community at large. How it Works … is a discussion of the definitions and distinct differences between traditional treatment and the new open community models that are emerging. I will talk about how the open community model is uniquely positioned to specifically address the needs of the chronic relapsing client in early recovery. Into Action… is an examination of the lessons we’ve learned about the Open Community model since we began operating nearly seven years ago. There have been numerous mistakes and miscalculations, misplaced assumptions, adjustments and changes along the way. Hence, we will discuss the “evolution” of treatment on this leg of the continuum.Working with others… refers to best practices by other programs and services in the industry. Specifically, I will take a few minutes to discuss how other practioners and provides in other communities are implementing their own forms of the Open Community ModelFinally, in a Vision For You… I will recklessly propose where I think all of this is headed in the future. One part predictions of the inevitable, one part wishful thinking…Afterwards, I would really like to open the floor for questions and discussion about what you all have encountered and overcome in your communities.
We’ve all been there: It’s QUIET in the dining room. That means one thing only… somebody’s holding onto a secret. Secrets in treatment are like termites, they eat away at the very foundation of the house. And with so many distractions, how can their NOT be secrets – girls in the AA community, porn or gambling, online or in the community… there is so much “leakage” possible in an open community model.How to root out the secrets?We learned that the solutions to these problems does not lie in root cause or family of origin issues or regressive trauma resolution work. You don’t work on making your bed. You don’t work on going to AA. You just make your bed and you go to AA. The spiritual dashboard is a peer-directed accountability index of made beds, meditation attendance, AA meetings, house chores, on-time dinner attendance, and daily focus sheets.
I can’t drink = primary. I can’t NOT drink = extended careFocus = Relationship (Solution) vs Abstinence (problem)
I can’t drink = primary. I can’t NOT drink = extended careFocus = Relationship (Solution) vs Abstinence (problem)
I can’t drink = primary. I can’t NOT drink = extended careFocus = Relationship (Solution) vs Abstinence (problem)
Service and recovery expeditions across the country:New Orleans and iowa for flood reliefPine Ridge SD to do a week of service work on Native American reservationsGrand Canyon restoration projects in Colorado and UtahWeekly or twice monthly:Feed the homelessHabitat for HumanityAnimal rescueHigh School wellness class speakersAdopt a highway