Shields for Families

Shields for Families reports offering: cognitive behavioral therapy, a talk therapy that helps you notice and change the thought patterns that lead to substance use; motivational interviewing, a counseling style that helps you find your own reasons to change, without lectures or judgment; trauma-related counseling, therapy that addresses painful past experiences at your pace, because trauma and substance use are often connected; relapse prevention, which helps you spot your triggers early and make a plan so a hard moment doesn't undo your progress; anger management, practical skills for noticing anger early and cooling it down; brief intervention, a short, focused conversation about your substance use and possible next steps; substance use counseling, regular sessions with a counselor focused on your recovery.

Yes. Shields for Families reports offering trauma-related counseling, therapy that addresses painful past experiences at your pace, because trauma and substance use are often connected.

Yes. Shields for Families reports offering child care for your children while you're in treatment.

That doesn't have to stop you. Shields for Families reports offering transportation assistance, help getting to and from treatment.

Possibly, yes. Shields for Families reports offering housing services, help finding or keeping a stable place to live.

Yes. Shields for Families reports offering employment counseling or training, help finding work or building job skills; job and school support, like help building work skills, finding a job, or finishing your education.

Treatment doesn't just stop when your program ends. Shields for Families reports offering: discharge planning, a concrete plan made with you before you leave; aftercare and continuing care, ongoing support after your main program ends; follow-up after discharge, check-ins to see how you're doing; self-help groups, peer meetings like AA, NA, or SMART Recovery; peer mentoring, support from people who have been through recovery themselves.

Yes. Shields for Families reports offering naloxone and overdose education. Naloxone is a medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose.

Yes, in designated areas. Shields for Families allows smoking in set areas, not everywhere on site. Vaping is allowed in designated areas.

Shields for Families reports serving women and men. If you're not sure whether a program is the right fit for you, call and ask. It's a normal question and they hear it every day.

Shields for Families reports serving young adults and adults.

Yes. Shields for Families reports offering telehealth, which means treatment by video or phone from wherever you are.