Community and Family Resources - STARS Adolescent Program
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430 8th St.
Fort Dodge IA, 50501
Contact Phone: (515) 576-7261
Website: http://www.cfrhelps.org/
Details: Substance abuse and addictions can steal your life, children, family, friends, health, job, and respectability. Addictions damage your life emotionally, spiritually, and financially. Recovery is not an easy process, but there is help. "Community and Family Resources is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of drug, alcohol, tobacco, and gambling addictions." Addiction, like diabetes and heart disease, is preventable and treatable; Addictions are diseases that can ruin families. Community and Family Resources offers education, treatment, support, and encouragement needed to overcome addictions to drugs, alcohol, and gambling. We also offer education and workplace support for employer tobacco policy changes. The Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescent Recovery and Success (STARS) program offers several individualized treatment options for adolescents and their families. A counselor meets with the client to determine the appropriate program intensity, treatment schedule, and expected length of treatment. Treatment topics include: substance abuse treatment, emotional health, group exercises/activities, role playing, relationship building, and learning the recovery skills necessary to implement and maintain a recovery-based lifestyle. Typically the residential portion of treatment lasts from 30-90 days and the outpatient group portion of treatment lasts 10-16 weeks and may be followed by aftercare. Adolescents are encouraged to attend 12 step meetings to further support their early recovery and help develop a sobriety-based support network. Inpatient Treatment: Adolescents participate in 50+ hours of programming each week. Intensive Outpatient with Room: Adolescents participate in 20 or more hours of programming each week. Normal length of stay varies, but can last longer than 90 days. While in treatment, the adolescent’s counselor will schedule individual and/or family sessions to review the adolescent’s and family’s progress in treatment, update/revise treatment plans, discuss discharge planning, answer questions, and discuss family concerns and/or referral options.