Continuing Care
Your Roadmap for Recovery
Before leaving residential treatment, you will meet with your primary counselor and your patient advocate who will help you develop a continuing care plan – your personalized road map for recovery.
The foundation for your continuing care plan is formed by the end of your first week of treatment. Your primary counselor will develop an integrated summary, which ties together the results of the medical, clinical, spiritual, and wellness assessments performed within the first week.
Your continuing care plan includes recommendations from the entire treatment team at Hanley Center: nursing, psychiatry, psychology, spiritual, wellness, and your primary counselor. Each will make recommendations to address your individual needs for ongoing recovery.
The continuing care plan will prioritize the issues to be addressed. If there is an issue we are not able to treat or take care of for you while you are in residential treatment, such as legal, occupational, housing, or mental health issues, we will outline the steps necessary to address them. Prior to your discharge, patient advocates will make appointments for any providers or meetings that you agreed to attend.
In addition, your alumni afercare coordinator will assign you a Hanley Center alumni or AA/NA contact where you live and have you call him or her before you leave. Your coordinator will also review support groups with you and help you identify a 12-Step group for you to attend in your area.
When you have completed your treatment, your alumni coordinator will assist and support you in your recovery for two years and beyond.
