Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Services
Our Mission: Provide a superior substance abuse treatment program that focuses on the special needs of adolescents, recognizes each individual’s needs, is client driven, and challenges the youth to achieve success in family relationships, academic performance, decision making, communication, and recovery maintenance, while challenging staff to continue to improve their quality of service provision through opportunities to grow professionally and personally.
The Challenge to Change program is designed to serve adolescents and families whose lives have been impacted by the use of alcohol and/or other substances. The program serves adolescents from ages 12 through 17 and is structured to meet the specific needs of the adolescent client and their family.
We believe that we can assist you in achieving your goals and overcoming the difficulties that many teenagers face today. You will have the opportunity to work closely with qualified and experienced staff that can support you and your family throughout the treatment process.
Being a teenager is often a confusing, challenging time, sometimes making teens susceptible to destructive patterns of drug use. While most teens probably see their drug use as casual and as a way to have fun, there are negative effects that are a result of this use of alcohol or other drugs.
Your child possesses unique characteristics and struggles with particular issues that should be explored and examined by only the most caring and knowledgeable treatment practitioners. The experienced professionals at Pathways offers individualized and holistic care that focuses on: Physical Health, Emotional Health, Social Health, Family Health, Spiritual Health and Educational Needs.
Our services include:
¤ comprehensive
assessment
¤ individual counseling
¤ family counseling/family groups
¤ group education/group counseling
¤ case management
¤ community support
¤ trauma counseling
¤ co-occurring counseling
¤ psychiatry as needed
A treatment team may include psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, chemical addiction counselors, recreation therapists, professional counselors, certified secondary education teachers, certified special education teachers, and nurses. This treatment team approach incorporates all significant community members that are invested in the adolescent’s success.
Strengths of the Challenge to Change program include:
¤ Strong emphasis on family involvement
¤ Nonjudgmental approach focused on individualized
strengths
¤ Full continuum of care from residential to outpatient
services
¤ Evidence-based practice
¤ Empowering individuals to direct their own treatment
¤ Connection to community resources
¤ Emphasis on relapse prevention
¤ Focus on treating individuals not diagnosis
Our adolescent clients are empowered with a portable skill set that enables them to improve the quality of their life and sustain these changes into adulthood.
¤ In 2000, more than 2 million youths aged
12 to 17 reported using inhalants at least once
in their lifetime.
¤ The number of adolescent admissions for
stimulant use increased 95 % between 1996
and 2006, opiate 65%, cocaine 19%
¤ The number of adolescent admissions for
marijuana involved adolescents increase 11%
Among females aged 12 to 17:
* 755,000 reported using marijuana
and hashish during the past month
* 83,000 reported using LSD
* 66,000 reported using cocaine
¤ 61.1% of Missouri’s youth have consumed
alcohol?
¤ An adolescent can become an alcoholic in as
little as 6 to 18 months.
¤ Alcohol is a major contributor to teen suicide
attempts
¤ Over 50% of the deaths for ages 15 to 24 are
related to alcohol
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