In this workshop, Leonard Bade shares the most successful tools that attract and retain alumni involvement with each other, the patients, and the program. This session contains a combination of tried and true modalities, as well as more innovative...
Grief Recovery and Gentle Path through the 12 Principles offer two types of workshops that can provide enlightening content for an alumni gathering.
September is Recovery Month and we discussed how to make it more than just a Facebook post by your program. What are ways we can use the resources that are provided and how do we align our curriculum to it in September? We tackle this together at...
Is it possible to remove the stigma around addiction by making your alumni ambassadors of positivity in the community?
The last step in the 12-Step tradition declares that as the result of working the Steps, recovering addicts experience a spiritual awakening that compels them to carry to others the message of spiritual connectedness. For example, volunteering while...
Where do you start if your treatment program doesn’t have an alumni program yet? How do you revive alumni services that have been in the doldrums for a while? We discuss the challenges, opportunities, process and activities.
Rehab alumni programs help maintain relationships between former patients, current patients, and staff. They promote both the rehab center and the recovery of its patients. What are the basic requirements for such an alumni program?
In order to continue on the path of recovery they worked so hard to reach, patients should ideally participate in some form of aftercare program. One option is to become part of an alumni community. But not all alumni programs are equally...
Addiction is a chronic brain disease and relapsing into substance use is quite common. Often, such a relapse is seen by the patient as failing at recovery. Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close...
The recovery industry suffers high turnover rates for many positions, largely because of emotional stress leading to compassion fatigue and burnout. This phenomenon includes alumni coordinators. Part of staying healthy should be appropriate self...