Shadow Mountain Family Involvement

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The disease of addiction impacts the entire family, not just the addict or alcoholic, and the effects can be devastating. At the same time, the family can be equally as impactful, helping the loved one when they decide to get sober. Shadow Mountain Academy’s approach to recovery recognizes the vital role family involvement plays in helping their young man’s journey on the path of recovery.

It is essential, that young adults learn to work their own program, which supports the opportunity for continued recovery. The family learns to work a recovery program too. This work includes learning how to take responsibility for our own health and happiness. Each family has a right to discover their own journey of recovery and our commitment to the family is to educate, empower and guide them in this process. Remember, you didn’t cause the addiction, you certainly can’t control it, and there is no “cure”. However, it is possible to learn healthy skills for coping with addiction and relationship with an addictive loved one.

Family Involvement:

Call with the Program Director within the first 72 hours of admission: welcome/ update, question and answer, coaching and preparation for first assignment.
Weekly progress calls with Recovery Manager. These calls focus on progress or regression around the SMA Life Skills Assessment standard.
Weekly scheduled phone call with your young man.
Two weekend Family Workshops - one near the end of Level 1 and the second near the end of Level 2.

“In the beginning, many of us are genuinely concerned and merely want to help a relative or friend who is not well. But as time passes and the situation worsens, we cease to recognize that we have a choice in the matter… Unless we friends and relatives choose recovery for ourselves, the dynamics of the disease will continue to dominant our relationships.”

-How Al-anon Works, pg. 27 & 30

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