Our comprehensive, 1 year program is designed to provide you support and accountability by working one-on-one with a designated counselor. In addition to working with you, they will maintain collateral contact with your support team and manage your ongoing toxicology screening and reporting. AiR’s Recovery Assistance Program (RAP) is structured to identify the potential for relapse before it happens, offer peace of mind to parents, significant others and employers, and produce dramatically improved rates of recovery from the 50% average success rate to 80%.
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RAP will provide you access to recovery resources, create individual accountability, help with integration into the community and serve as an advocate for your recovery, while helping to prevent relapse.
RAP’s main components of Case Management, Monitoring and Coaching allow you to benefit from:
- A designated mentor, with whom you connect and build a consistent relationship.
- Ownership of your personal continuing care plan, which increases recovery rates.
- A safety net for unplanned and ongoing issues that may arise in early recovery.
- Healthy boundaries and realistic expectations from family, friends, work and/or school.
Who benefits from Recovery Assistance Program:
- Families of an individual who has completed treatment
- Employers managing recovering employees
- Participants looking for guidance and support
More about AiR’s Recovery Assistance Program
Recovery Assistance Program is not merely monitoring an individual in recovery and waiting for relapse to happen. Recovery is maintained through a commitment to sobriety and a willingness to follow the prescribed continuing care to prevent relapse.
The Problem
Treatment works. However, 47% of those that complete treatment successfully still relapse within the first year. Conversely, research shows that 90% of airline pilots and 82% of medical personnel are able to maintain long term recovery. Why? These groups have access to structured programs designed to intervene on the addiction, facilitate access to treatment resources, reinforce continuing care plans and support sustained recovery.
The Solution
The leading cause of relapse is failure to follow the prescribed continuing care. Structured post-treatment programs have been shown to provide better recovery outcomes than treatment alone. AiR has modeled our Recovery Assistance Program on these established methods
Program Rational
While investigating ways that AiR could better support those in recovery, some interesting facts were discovered. Programs that support recovery, commonly referred to as “assistance programs” have been in use in certain industries for a number of years and are providing surprising results.
As an example, airline pilots who experience problems with drugs, alcohol or other behaviroral health issues are required to participate in an assistance program following their discharge from treatment. Recovery rates for airline pilots participating in these programs are reported to be in the 90% to 95% range. These recovery rates are 30% to 45% higher than individuals who undergo treatment, but are without the benefit of an assistance program after they are discharged. Other assistance programs, such as those available to doctors, nurses and other medical personnel also experience increased rates of recovery.
At the same time we found evidence that relapse of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma were mainly attributed to patients not fully complying with their prescribed continuing care. In addition, the research showed that relapse rates for addiction were very similar to the relapse rates for these other chronic illnesses.
These two groups of evidence pointed to a common thread. The importance of prescribed continuing care plans. Individuals with chronic illnesses who did not adhere to their prescribed continuing care plan experienced a relapse. While individuals who were involved in post treatment assistance programs that focus on compliance with continuing care plans enjoy greater recovery rates.
In light of these findings, improving recovery rates seemed all too simple. Except, assistance programs were only available to licensed professionals in certain industries and not available to the general public. The next logical step was to create the Recovery Assistance Program, modeled on the best practices and methodologies of established assistance programs for our clients and the general public.
Program Overview
RAP is designed to improve recovery rates by helping people effectively implement and follow their continuing care plans. The program strives to provide access to appropriate recovery resources, create individual accountability, and serve as an advocate for recovery, while predicting and preventing relapse.
RAP is comprised of three main components:
1. TREATMENT LIAISON ““ prepare and educate
2. RE-ENTRY BRIDGE ““ transition and implement
3. MONITORING ““ verify and report
During the Treatment Liaison phase of the program the objective is twofold. First, is the preparation for the day the RAP participant is discharged from the treatment facility. This is achieved through communication with the treatment facility to review treatment outcomes, identify relapse triggers and become familiar with the prescribed continuing care plan. Research is conducted for the RAP participant’s local community to identify the support resources that are required by the continuing care plan. Secondly, education is provided to the family and or workplace in order that they can be fully supportive of the recovery process.
Once the RAP participant is discharged from the treatment facility, the Re-entry Bridge phase begins. The purpose of this phase is to provide a smooth transition from the sheltered treatment facility environment into their new life in recovery. Typically this is done through a face to face meeting with the RAP participant and everyone who has a vested interest in the recovery process. The cornerstone of any recovery is the prescribed continuing care plan and as such it is reviewed in detail. The plan is implemented and included as part of a personal calendar for the participant.
During the plan implementation, local recovery support services, such as outpatient group, 12 step meetings, medical and mental health services, are aligned to the continuing care plan and calendar. Finally, expectations and boundaries are established around the RAP participant’s continuing care plan and participation agreement.
The final phase, Monitoring, will continue over the next twelve (12) months. Verification of program compliance is accomplished through a series of regularly scheduled teleconferences between the RAP participant and their assigned AIR Recovery Advocate. Through the use of various clinical case tools the Recovery Advocate will look for predictors of possible relapse and take preventative action as appropriate. Additional verification of compliance will come in the form of the Recovery Advocate’s contact with the local recovery support services that are contained in the continuing care plan. Adherence to sobriety will be verified through a series of randomly scheduled toxicology screens. The client family or workplace will receive reports on compliance and recovery progress on a regularly scheduled basis.
The integration of the Recovery Assistance Program and the prescribed continuing care plan produces a truly personalized recovery plan. A plan designed to not only identify, predict and prevent relapse, but also support the needs of the RAP participant and their family system as well.
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