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Family Crisis Toolkit
What is included in the Crisis Toolkit?
~ Dose of nasal Naloxone
~ 13-panel drug test
~ Deterra drug deactivation kit
~ Information on opioids and how to dispense of them
~ Membership to "Allies In Recovery"
~ Framework to create a family crisis plan
~ Brochures for local and state resources
~ Comfort kit
Resources at your fingertips
Providence Safe Stations
Are you or someone you know struggling with addiction? Providence Safe Stations is your connection to recovery.
Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can visit any of Providence’s 12 fire stations, speak with the trained staff on duty, and immediately get connected to treatment support and services. Providence Safe Stations is free and provides a welcoming environment for when you’re ready for recovery.
The purpose of Providence Safe Stations is to address the overdose epidemic in Providence by providing hassle-free and immediate access to supportive services. Individuals living with substance use disorders may not be aware of the resources available to them or have the ability to access them. Providence Safe Stations breaks down barriers for individuals, allowing them access to critical supportive services provided by a peer in recovery when and where they need them most.
Providence Safe Stations is based on the model from Manchester and Nashua, NH, which also experience high rates of opioid overdose deaths. It is in alignment with the State of Rhode Island’s Overdose Prevention Action Plan, which includes expansion of peer recovery services and access to treatment options for long-term recovery. Providence Safe Stations is a partnership between the City of Providence’s Fire Department and The Providence Center’s Anchor Recovery with leadership and support from the RI Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals and the RI Department of Health.
Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can visit any of Providence’s 12 fire stations, speak with the trained staff on duty, and immediately get connected to treatment support and services. Providence Safe Stations is free and provides a welcoming environment for when you’re ready for recovery.
The purpose of Providence Safe Stations is to address the overdose epidemic in Providence by providing hassle-free and immediate access to supportive services. Individuals living with substance use disorders may not be aware of the resources available to them or have the ability to access them. Providence Safe Stations breaks down barriers for individuals, allowing them access to critical supportive services provided by a peer in recovery when and where they need them most.
Providence Safe Stations is based on the model from Manchester and Nashua, NH, which also experience high rates of opioid overdose deaths. It is in alignment with the State of Rhode Island’s Overdose Prevention Action Plan, which includes expansion of peer recovery services and access to treatment options for long-term recovery. Providence Safe Stations is a partnership between the City of Providence’s Fire Department and The Providence Center’s Anchor Recovery with leadership and support from the RI Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals and the RI Department of Health.
BH Link
WHAT IS BH LINK?
BH Link is a behavioral health facility designed to provide immediate assistance to a person in crisis by providing innovative crisis intervention services, and connecting people to ongoing treatment and care. Services are provided by our professional team of registered nurses, counselors, psychiatrists, phone screeners, and peer specialists. Our clinicians will listen to clients’ concerns and take the necessary steps to get people through their crisis, and help make connections to longer term services if needed.
Primary components:
BH Link Hotline, (414-LINK; 414-5465): a one-stop, statewide 24/7 call-in center that connects people to appropriate care and resources, when they or someone they care about is experiencing a behavioral healthcare crisis
BH Link Triage Center: a 24/7 community-based walk-in/drop-off facility where clinicians connect people to immediate, stabilizing emergency behavioral health services, and long-term care and recovery supports
WHY BH LINK
Provides immediate access to behavioral healthcare in a community-based, 24/7 facility
Ensures stability, provides seamless transfer to ongoing care, and reduces unnecessary use of hospital-based services
Delivers better, more cost-effective behavioral healthcare in Rhode Island
BH Link is a behavioral health facility designed to provide immediate assistance to a person in crisis by providing innovative crisis intervention services, and connecting people to ongoing treatment and care. Services are provided by our professional team of registered nurses, counselors, psychiatrists, phone screeners, and peer specialists. Our clinicians will listen to clients’ concerns and take the necessary steps to get people through their crisis, and help make connections to longer term services if needed.
Primary components:
BH Link Hotline, (414-LINK; 414-5465): a one-stop, statewide 24/7 call-in center that connects people to appropriate care and resources, when they or someone they care about is experiencing a behavioral healthcare crisis
BH Link Triage Center: a 24/7 community-based walk-in/drop-off facility where clinicians connect people to immediate, stabilizing emergency behavioral health services, and long-term care and recovery supports
WHY BH LINK
Provides immediate access to behavioral healthcare in a community-based, 24/7 facility
Ensures stability, provides seamless transfer to ongoing care, and reduces unnecessary use of hospital-based services
Delivers better, more cost-effective behavioral healthcare in Rhode Island
The Seven Challenges-
youth and young adults
For more information contact:
Project Director, Trisha Suggs 401-462-2773
Fax 462-6636 trisha.suggs@bhddh.ri.gov
What is The Seven Challenges?
The Seven Challenges® is a comprehensive counseling program that incorporates work on alcohol and other drug problems. It is designed to motivate clients, whether they are in the adult or adolescent version, to evaluate their lives, consider changes they may wish to make, and then succeed in implementing the desired changes. It supports them in taking power over their own lives.
In The Seven Challenges program, people address their drug problems, their co-occurring life skill deficits, and their situational and psychological problems. Although counselors in the program provide a structure for groups and a framework for individual sessions, the content of each session is exceptionally flexible, in response to the immediate needs of the client. It is not pre-scripted.
The Seven Challenges uses an approach called “Mastery CounselingTM,” which helps people look at what is happening in their lives. They learn to recognize what is going well and what is problematic. Whatever is not going well, or as well as they would like it to be going, is identified as an “issue.” In Seven Challenges sessions, counselors teach people to work on their issues. As they do their work, the “challenge process” is used to help them make thoughtful decisions, including about drugs.
We do not fit clients, whether young people or adults, into our program; rather, we wrap the program around the concerns of the people we serve.
The Seven Challenges® is a comprehensive counseling program that incorporates work on alcohol and other drug problems. It is designed to motivate clients, whether they are in the adult or adolescent version, to evaluate their lives, consider changes they may wish to make, and then succeed in implementing the desired changes. It supports them in taking power over their own lives.
In The Seven Challenges program, people address their drug problems, their co-occurring life skill deficits, and their situational and psychological problems. Although counselors in the program provide a structure for groups and a framework for individual sessions, the content of each session is exceptionally flexible, in response to the immediate needs of the client. It is not pre-scripted.
The Seven Challenges uses an approach called “Mastery CounselingTM,” which helps people look at what is happening in their lives. They learn to recognize what is going well and what is problematic. Whatever is not going well, or as well as they would like it to be going, is identified as an “issue.” In Seven Challenges sessions, counselors teach people to work on their issues. As they do their work, the “challenge process” is used to help them make thoughtful decisions, including about drugs.
We do not fit clients, whether young people or adults, into our program; rather, we wrap the program around the concerns of the people we serve.
REST CRAFT-based educational meetings at RICARES
REST educational meetings are for families impacted by Substance Use Disorder. We use a methodology-CRAFT, Community Reinforcement and Family Training. We are all about education and empowering families with skills and strategies.
Click on the underlined linked below to go straight to zoom. If you have any questions or comments please email Laurie at lcmac11@comcast.net
Click on the underlined linked below to go straight to zoom. If you have any questions or comments please email Laurie at lcmac11@comcast.net
Allies in Recovery website
Allies in Recovery is Home to the Premier Training Program for Anyone Who Cares for Someone with Addiction. Since 2003, We Have Taught CRAFT Community Reinforcement and Family Training), the Only Behavioral Training Method Designed Specifically for Families and Scientifically Proven to Work – and Recognized by SAMHSA, the Government Agency that Funds Addiction Prevention and Treatment.
For a free membership:
Promocode RESTRI
Sponsoring organization:
The state of Rhode Island
For a free membership:
Promocode RESTRI
Sponsoring organization:
The state of Rhode Island
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