WCPT will debut a new talk show, Sunday, June 26th, 3 pm-4 pm (CT) featuring Al Bresloff and Doris Davenport. The program, “Around The Town with Al Bresloff and Doris Davenport”, will feature current events, culture, politics, and trending topics around town. This year, the hosts will spotlight the growing problem of mental health disorders, particularly addiction, with a monthly segment dedicated to rebuilding broken lives torn apart by alcohol, drug, and gambling addiction, presented by Way Back Inn ( serving the Chicagoland area since 1973).
Way Back Inn offers residential extended care for substance and gambling use disorders, as well as co-occurring disorders. Residential extended care (ERC) is a highly structured, long-term therapeutic living environment for individuals to grow and nurture their new life in recovery. Individuals struggling with substance use disorders have often lost or lacked structure in their lives. One of the functions of Way Back Inn is to revitalize and instill productive living habits and renew daily life functions (cleaning one’s room, making one’s bed, keeping the house tidy, self-care, etc.). The aim of the program is to lay the foundation for a lasting recovery, including maintaining one’s overall health, family relationships, and social relationships. For the duration of the ERC program, each participant lives in one of their Extended Residential Care homes from 90 days to one year, and approximately 64% have successfully achieved sobriety after going through their program.
While living in one of their ERC homes, participants receive treatment, housing, and food. Each client has their own individualized treatment plan, receiving between five to nine hours of clinical services weekly, including individual and group sessions with our clinical counselors. They include special programs at this level of care that assist with time management, employment, and budgeting. We have three residential extended care facilities in Maywood, IL for adult men and one facility in Oak Park for Adult Women.
Upon completion of the ERC program, individuals may apply to move into the next level of care and live in one of their Recovery Homes. This encourages each person to transition into independent societal living once they leave the program. The length of stay in their residential programs is determined by individualized program needs.
Their Recovery Home facilities are located in Oak Park and Maywood, Illinois. The overall goal of their Residential Extended Care and Recovery Home programs is to help the participants grow and foster a sober life. Sobriety is the foundation to living a productive life.
A glimpse into Way Back Inn’s programming:
- Group therapy
- Individual therapy
- Group living
- Family-style meals
- Daily community meetings
- Structured living
- Renewed daily life functions
- 12-step peer support
- 12-step sponsorship
- Peer recovery support specialists
- Continued sobriety
- Healed family relationships
- Rebuilding a new life in recovery
- Aftercare
- Alumni Association for continued connection
- In-house AA meetings to build 12-step peer support
12 step peer support – A 12-Step program is important for continued sobriety. As part of the Way Back Inn structured living program, clients are encouraged attend three in-house and two outside 12-Step peer support group meetings each week during their stay to help build a sober support network for when they are no longer living in their residential facilities.
What are 12-step peer support groups?
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Gamblers Anonymous (GA), and more!
Way Back Inn is committed to treating each client with dignity and respect and to developing an individualized treatment plan. The Way Back Inn and Grateful House programs utilize motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, and the cycle of change into its individualized treatment plan, per the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). All therapeutic interventions, groups, and education utilize evidence-based best practices
For more info, visit www.waybackinn.org
or call 1-866-993-6503
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