Does you son or daughter need residential treatment, but you know that 30 days is not enough? Have they never been to treatment before? Are not totally willing?
How Residential Treatment at Sober College Works
Sober College’s residential treatment program is similar to other 30 day programs, but Sober College gives the clients the opportunity to spend AT LEAST 90 days working in a secure treatment environment where they are able to take the time to look into themselves, during this crucial time in early sobriety, with the constant support of both their peers and their staff.
Like other residential treatment centers, Sober College has 24 hour staffing, including an awake overnight staff, random drug testing (usually 3-4 times a week), and daily individual and/or group therapy. Sober College has a minimum length of stay of 90 days, and is as a progressive program to accommodate those residents that may need more long-term treatment. When clients admit to Sober College they enter on what we refer to as Freshman Phase.
Houses travel to the beach together for surf therapy
Freshman Phase means that the client has minimal privileges and is required to be with a staff member at all times. This phase of the program encourages camaraderie among housemates and allows the new client to become comfortable with their new environment and staff members, while keeping them safe. Moving off Freshman Phase is done on a case by case basis and is determined based on the client’s achievement in the five core competencies of our drug treatment model, but is usually at 30 days that a client is eligible to apply to be taken off freshman phase.
Why Freshman Phase?
For any young adults, the first 30 days of sobriety are the most crucial. In Sober College’s residential treatment program this time is spent with their house mates, and getting to know their peers, their staff, and themselves. Students that have graduate from the Sober College program explain how important their housemates and staff was to them during their early sobriety.
A young adult’s path to sustainable long-term sobriety and healthy living requires an approach that is comprehensive, specifically tailored to their age group and creates an emotional attachment to the idea of being sober. We have created a program of attraction that makes the idea of sobriety irresistible. This concept of attraction based programming is at the core of what sets us apart.
“I came to Sober College after attending an intensive lock down 30 day program, and it helped me to apply the lessons that I learned there to life. It eased the discomfort of readjusting to the world clean and sober.”
- Lauren K., Sober College Resident
