Residential: Our primary residential program is a six to nine month residential facility designed to provide a healthy, safe and supportive environment for individuals whose needs are best addressed in a residential treatment setting. The residential program combines a daily way of life practiced in supportive recovery with the expertise and experience of professional counselors and volunteers. Days are structured with workshops, support groups, basic living skills as well as recreational opportunities.
Welcoming Policy: Making A Way Housing, Inc welcomes all individuals for services related to drug and alcohol addiction, and those in need of life-enhancing recovery from co-occurring conditions. However, we recognize that our clients often have other medical and psychiatric conditions that interact with and impact their addiction. We are committed to providing the most holistic and comprehensive recovery and treatment services for clients. In order to help clients achieve the best stabilization in all life areas, we recognize the importance of integrating attention to these other medical and psychiatric issues throughout the treatment process at Making A way Housing, Inc. It is part of our program to provide referrals and support for linkages to services related to these other co-occurring conditions and to incorporate those services into the client’s treatment plan and recovery process.
It is recognized that when a person enters Making A Way Housing, he/she is reaching out for help and deserves a welcoming response. We take responsibility for assisting each person who enters our door by making sure he/she has a comprehensive risk assessment to assure safety and is connected to a relationship that integrates attention to his/her multiple needs. In addition, we are committed to making sure that the appropriate resources and referrals are made available whether the individual will be admitted to our treatment facility or not. The life of each person is precious, and we have an important part in welcoming him/her into our drug and alcohol free environment, healthy living, including recovery from co-existing medical and psychiatric conditions.
HIV/AIDS and Sobriety Support Groups
Weekly groups that focus on issues facing the client related to HIV/AIDS and addiction (i.e. remaining abstinent, medical concerns, developing social skills and incorporating clean and sober social events into recovery planning.
Alcohol and Drug Education
Groups and individual counseling sessions that focus on the disease concept of addiction, how alcohol and drugs effect the immune system, information on specific drugs of choice, and consequences of alcohol and drug abuse.
I.D.U. Prevention Case Management
Outreach and Intensive Case Management for Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs). Educating IDUs about risks associated with their injection drug use. The goal is to encourage behavior modification and to support positive behavioral change through education, support and referrals.
HIV/AIDS In-Service Training
A service that provides HIV/AIDS and addiction educational training to health care providers, case managers and recovery staff. Making A Way Housing, Inc takes pride in the many years of service in the AIDS and addiction field and wishes to pass this experience on to other health care providers.
AIDS & Addiction Speakers Bureau
A service that provides speakers that are successfully living with HIV/AIDS and addiction who share their experience, strength and hope to agencies and individuals throughout Metropolitan Atlanta. All Programs have a special emphasis on communities that have been historically underserved (i.e. communities of color). The various support groups, education groups and Prevention Programs focus on specific issues relating to HIV/AIDS Prevention and substance abuse reduction as a first step in improving the individual's overall health.
Harm reduction is an open door to drug-free living. Unfortunately, there are not enough treatment beds to meet the needs of the drug users who are still suffering. With empathy and love in our hearts, Making A Way’s outreach staff work to meet the needs of people from a harm reduction point of view by treating people with respect and dignity and most of all without judgment. Making A Way will always provide abstinence-based treatment at our Residential and Non-Residential facilities, rest assured! We are happy to be working a program that understands the complexities of human behaviors and seeks to provide services to individuals with differing needs, or until a bed become available.
Basic services provided:
- Alcohol/Drug Treatment Screening and Assessment
- Case Management Screening to assess eligibility for Homeless Services
- Bus Tokens for scheduled appointments
- Referrals to Homeless Shelters/Transitional Housing
- Referrals to Medical, Dental, Vision and Psychiatric Services
- Information to Community Mobile Medical Units - Anonymous & Free
- Information to Free meals/Food lines
- Crisis Counseling/Case management
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