Created and implemented innovative cognitive-behavioral-based curriculum for substance abuse treatment while employed by the Essex County Sheriff’s Department. Facilitated groups and counseled individual participants. I integrated brainstorming techniques and creative processes culled from my advertising agency experience with group facilitation to achieve clinical treatment goals. I was able to get participants to communicate their feelings in a jail setting without exposing themselves as appearing "weak" to other participants.
Challenge: Get program participants to personalize, take responsibility for and integrate their personal recovery goals outside of the program.
Solution: Laminate wallet-sized Stay Out Of Jail Free card with a participant-created list of ten ways they could stay away from a drink or a drug if the urge arose.
Below: Some of the many handouts I created to help program participants to communicate their feelings in a challenging environment (jail) and foster their addiction recovery.
