Turning Point Program Model

WHAT IS TURNING POINT?

The Turning Point Program is a recovery based treatment approach to substance abuse and crime that functions as an intensive outpatient treatment community. Our design integrates the best elements of a social learning, approach combined with skills training, designed to help offenders change the way they think about drugs and crime. It is an approaches that can help the offender achieve rehabilitative goals and objectives. The structure, content, and methods of the program work are the based on evidenced based practices.

One of the essential features of our program model is the concept of “accountability.” Community members are responsible for learning how to be accountable and how to hold others accountable. By

Emerald provides educational services and evidenced based substance abuse treatment, designed to change criminal/addictive thinking, promote personal growth and prepare for success reentry into the

In order to progress from one phase to the next, it is necessary to learn and demonstrate an understanding of the information and skills required in each phase. Required demonstration of knowledge and skills is twofold: first is the active use of the information and skills in the community; second is the ability to restate and explain these orally and/or in writing. For those who have difficulty writing, the opportunity will be provided to review the skills orally in individual sessions with one’s case manager. Finally, each member’s readiness to move from one phase to the next will be assessed by a Peer Review Panel and approved by the program staff, which approve or disapprove all phase movement. Some of the things staff members will consider to determine phase advancement include:

• Being a positive role model for others in the community;

• Providing support and feedback to peers to help them in their efforts;

• “Walking-the-walk” of the program, rather than just “talking-the-talk;

• Using the program skills to develop more “Inner Self” behaviors, as opposed to continuing to react to situations using the “negative habit