Sober College is a young adult residential rehab facilitydesigned specifically to accommodate the 17 through 26 age bracket. We are an accredited facility offering transferrable college credit classes while a resident attends a fully functional rehab facility with 24-hour staff surveillance. Our primary purpose is to teach struggling young adult alcoholics and addicts the necessary tools to living a meaningful and fruitful life. The way we do this is through a time-tested core competency model that encompasses all vital functions in life. The Five Core Competencies are as follows:
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Life Skills includes important and essential information about society and the way the world works, that young addicts may have missed during their using careers. This includes things like, how to balance credit, how to be responsible and do your own laundry and daily chores, and how to deal with stressful situations with positive coping skills.
Productivity is characterized by work or school. After their stay in the initial primary care facility, students will be given the opportunity to either take classes through our Woodbury accredited facility here in Woodland Hills, CA, or find work at one of the various establishments in the surrounding area. Being productive in early recovery encourages residents to be responsible and teaches them to “suit up and show up,” which is an absolutely fundamental piece of learning to live sober.
A healthy body equals a healthy mind. That’s why we encourage and require our residents to participate in supervised workouts at a luxurious local gym. We also encourage residents to pursue their own fitness related goals and aspirations, and are more than willing to help our residents to do so. If a resident should have the goal of being a top athlete in, let’s say, volleyball, then we are more than happy to accommodate!
Recovery is probably the most important of the core competencies, as all the others are only contingent upon a young adults willingness to stay sober. In their first three months, residents will be taken to seven 12-step meetings per week, ranging from Narcotics-anonymous to Alcoholics-Anonymous. We believe that there is a great deal of improvement that can be made through working one of these programs, and residents are required to have a sponsor in order to move up tiers in our program. They will be required to call and meet with their sponsor on a regular basis. Through working a program, residents will learn skills that they can implement into their lives in order to stay sober in the long run.
The final competency is emotional intelligence, which is characterized by learning about oneself and how ones emotions manifest themselves. Through individual, group and experiential therapies, residents learn tools to increase their ability to cope to stressful situations and how to deal with difficult emotions or trauma. Many addicts use drugs to quell their emotions, so naturally, upon getting sober, many years worth of suppressed emotions may come bubbling to the surface, and it is very important that the young adult recovering addict or alcoholic learns to process and deal with these emotions rather than simply pushing them back down and suppressing them further.
