Primary Stage Two

Clients progress to Stage Two of Primary Care when they are ready. Decisions on progress are made by the programme manager, key worker and medical staff.

During Stage Two of Primary Care, clients continue the work begun at stage one and also begin to examine life skills as follows:

Client Kitchen

• The continuation of the 12 step journey exploring the practical aspects of powerlessness and unmanageability. This is followed by the next two foundation steps
  
• Enhancing a clients knowledge of their own emotional responses to life and its challenges
• Building self trust and trust in others by actively encouraging individuals to attend outside meetings. Our client group is not removed from society, and therefore this enables the transition process of endings with treatment into either third stage treatment or independent living to be less traumatic.
  
• To enable clients to have faith in a system as part of the community, not apart from it as they have been so used to.
  
• To discuss what it means to live as a member of the community, lawfully and productively.
  

  Living Room
  
  
• Enabling budgeting skills and the manageability of every day living skills such as cooking and shopping.
  
• To learn to work through difficult and sensitive issues, such as grief, loss, anger, resentments in a healthy therapeutic environment.
  
• Enable clients to ground themselves in the here and now, dealing with reality as it is experienced rather than enabling denial or avoidance.
  
• Enabling clients to find their voice in a therapeutic community through group work, workshops, role play and individually set tasks
  
• Writing regular update reports and communicating the clients needs to relevant authorities, be that probation or DSS, funding agency and the community in general.
  
• Relaxation techniques, emotional awareness and self honesty enhancement.
  
• Preparation for leaving treatment or continuation into third stage treatment through cross-agency cooperation and communication.
  
• The development of personal boundaries that will co-exist alongside the continuation of the twelve step process of recovery.
  
• Solution focussed interventions alongside motivational interviewing/121/groupwork.

In house self-help groups with ex-peers, other agencies and 12 step bodies are held in the evenings to engender hope through real life successes and show the depth of support that exists for everyone to achieve their desired outcomes

View a typical timetable

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