Spiritual-Based 12-Step Program
Approach
Since 1985, RRR’s approach has been s built on the 12-step program, and integrated with an evidence based, experiential learning, client tailored program. The emphasis is on experiential learning. Our clients learn by doing, learn through action, and learn through discovery, and exploration. You or your loved one learns sobriety by applying what they learn in real life situations. It is led by our passionate team of professionals who are dedicated to empowering our clients with the tools that lead to living a clean and sober life. Why do we use this approach in our rehab and treatment programs? Because it works.
The evidence-based, experiential learning component builds on the 12- Step program and integrates the Hazelden- Betty Ford approach. Hazelden was established in 1949, with a forward-thinking approach to the problem of alcoholism—an approach built on merging Twelve Step principles and practices, lay counseling, and abiding compassion for the individual receiving care. The Betty Ford Center was established in 1982, with former First Lady, Betty Ford, bringing unprecedented visibility to the problem of drug addiction and the promise of treatment and recovery, recognizing addiction is a chronic disease and recovery is a new way of life. This treatment approach is individualized, evidence-based, Twelve Step-inspired, and occurs over the long term through a continuum of care and support.
The 12- Step Approach is most notably associated with Alcoholics Anonymous which was founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith in the early 1930’s. The 12-Step approach originated in the Alcoholics Anonymous Program. Although it began with alcoholics, the approach supports recovery from substance addictions such behavioral addictions including as well as compulsions.
The 12 Steps
- I admit I am powerless over alcohol (or drugs) —that my life has become unmanageable.
- I came to believe that a Power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.
- I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand understood Him.
- I made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.
- I admitted to God, myself, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.
- I am entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- I Humbly asked Him to remove my shortcomings.
- I made a list of all persons I had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- I made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- I continued to take personal inventory, and when I was wrong, promptly admitted it.
- I sought through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God as I understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry that out.
- I have had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I tried to carry this message to alcoholics (or drug addicts), and to practice these principles in all my affairs.
[1] The 12-Step Program is from Alcoholic Anonymous and can accessed here.