harbor hall
Harbor Hall
Mission and Scope
Harbor Hall is the parent organization that is located in Petoskey, Michigan, a city in the northwestern lower peninsula of Michigan, overlooking Little Traverse Bay. Petoskey is situated in Emmet County, a rural community of about 32,694 permanent residents. In the summer, the population increases with tourists from around the world. The local population of Charlevoix is Caucasian in the majority. Native Americans (Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians) are prominently represented. There is a sparse mixture of African American and Hispanics.
The SHARP program is located at the Round Lake Educational Center in Charlevoix, Michigan. The Safe Harbor Adolescent Recovery Program is a court program for adjudicated youth This program is utilized by many other counties in Michigan. The youth are generally ages 13 – 17 and have been found appropriate to participate in this program through a screening and referral process managed by SHARP staff. SHARP is unique in the programing it offers. The youth all attend school together on the Round Lake Education Center Campus in the City of Charlevoix. When the youth are assigned to this program, they are removed from their homes and placed in foster care for the period of time they are in the program. There is a high level of structure and accountability within the system.
The program philosophy of SHARP is to increase public safety by providing a comprehensive system of treatment services, judicial supervision, and the integration of court and community services which will result in reduced recidivism, increased school attendance, increased employability and sobriety while protecting the rights of juveniles.
Harbor Hall’s philosophy is that the disease of alcoholism and addiction is a chronic medical condition that if left untreated is fatal in most cases. Substance abuse is a primary treatable disease in which the individual, by completing treatment and following through with continuing care recommendations, can lead a meaningful, productive and happy life without the use of alcohol and other mood altering chemicals.
Harbor Hall’s Mission is to provide quality, professional Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment services. SUD treatment if for individuals and their families who have experienced problems related to the disease of addictive disorders. Harbor Hall strives to promote a higher quality of life and functioning for individuals experiencing problems related to substance misuse.
Harbor Hall’s treatment is designed for clients to learn to become responsible for their own actions. The program is composed of a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team that focuses on client strengths through cultural/age appropriate, trauma informed, and gender-specific interventions that are strength-based, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral and motivationally driven. If the individual remains honest, open and willing, the person will benefit by learning and putting into use tools and principles for living a drug and alcohol free lifestyle.
Level 1 (Adolescent and Family Outpatient Services)
The ASAM Criteria (2013) defines Level 1 as a program that may delivered in a wide variety of settings. Level 1 services are tailored to each individuals clients assessed level of clinical severity and functioning. Programs/groups are designed to help the client achieve changes in substance use or other addictive behaviors. Treatment must address major lifestyle, attitudinal, and behavioral issues that have the potential to undermine the goals of treatment or to impair the individual’s ability to cope with major life tasks without the addictive use of mood altering chemicals or other addictive behaviors such as gambling.
The programing consists primarily of counseling and education about addiction and related issues as well as mental health problems. The client’s need for psychiatric care is addressed primarily through consultation and referral arrangements. A client who is medically or psychiatrically unstable they would not be appropriate for this level of care.
This program is staffed by appropriately licensed (LMSW, MSW, LPC, LLP) and credentialed addiction treatment professional (CAADC, CADC or on an approved development plan). This professionals will assess and treat substance use disorders and other addictive disorders. Additionally, screening for trauma related issues and concerns will be conducted. These therapists will have sufficient cross training and supervision to understand the signs and symptoms of mental disorders, and to understand and be able to explain the uses of psychotropic medications and their interactions with substance use and other addictive disorders.
In-service trainings regarding cultural issues, age, trauma informed, and gender-specific issues are provided to clinical staff. Additionally, therapists/counselors are provided training opportunities to enhance cultural and trauma informed competencies.
Adolescent and Family programing will be developed, managed and supervised by Harbor Hall staff. The goal is to design and develop a program that utilizes best practice models of care. The program will be sensitive to education needs of the adolescents therefor after school hours and weekend services will be primarily utilized during the regular school year. Treatment success such as an improvement in functioning can be misinterpreted as indicating that treatment is completed. Maintenance strategies such as relapse prevention and strengthening protective factors are essential components. This would include checking with parental supervision, scrutinizing school performance or peer relationships, contact with probation or Family Court officials and the like to ensure that performance stays on track.
The assessment process and treatment plans will be developed and based on the identified client goals as well as the treatment courts goals. Treatment plans will include input from a multi-disciplinary team approach that include Recovery High staff. Goals will be reviewed as often as necessary to ensure that the appropriate goals for the client are being addressed.
Harbor Hall Treatment Approaches
Life Skills Group will utilize the Hazelden Materials “Living in Balance” or the Trauma Affect Regulation Group Education Treatment (TARGET)
The Living in Balance core curriculum includes twelve sessions that address basic issues commonly faced by clients in early recovery. Sessions address drugs of abuse, relapse prevention, self-help programs, mental and physical health, emotional and social wellness, sexual and spiritual health, daily living skills, and vocational and educational development. The sessions are packaged in a three-ring binder with divider tabs for easy organization. You can supplement the core curriculum with an additional twenty-one sessions, which are available separately. Information in each session is presented in manageable, user-friendly segments. Clients are able to personalize how the session topic has affected their lives, and the steps they can take to make changes. Each session allows for counselor interventions, presentations, and client training. After each segment is a question-and-answer session that lets clients interact intensively with the counselor. Written assignments, along with role-play exercises where appropriate, engage clients interactively with the information.
Twelve Core Sessions These sessions can be used in any order that works best for your clients, and can be repeated if necessary. There is no beginning or ending session. The parallel treatment model allows clients to start anywhere, end anywhere, and stay current even if they miss a session.
Twenty-one Supplemental Sessions These supplemental sessions of Living in Balance provide the greatest opportunity for customization. You can group sessions for specific issues (e.g. sexual abuse, grief and loss), specific client populations (e.g. clients at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases), or unique treatment tracks (e.g. spirituality and self-help).
The MACI™ inventory, is distinguished from other clinical instruments primarily by its brevity, its theoretical anchoring, multiaxial format, tripartite construction and validation schema, use of base rate scores, and interpretive depth. It was developed specifically for use in clinical, residential, and correctional settings. It is useful primarily in the evaluation of troubled adolescents, and may be used for diagnostic assistance, in formulating treatment plans, and as an outcome measure.
At 160 items, the MACI™ inventory is much shorter than comparable instruments. The MACI™ test is almost self-administering. Terminology is geared to a sixth-grade reading level. The great majority of youngsters can complete the inventory in approximately 20 minutes, minimizing resistance among the population for which the test is intended. The MACI™ test is linked directly to a coherent theory of personality and psychopathology, significantly increasing the inventory's interpretive value. Separate scales distinguish the more enduring personality characteristics of patients from the more acute clinical disorders they display. Profiles based on all scales may be interpreted to illuminate the interplay between long-standing characterological patterns and the distinctive clinical symptoms currently manifest. As noted, the addition of what are termed the Grossman Facet Scales assist the clinician in further refining the utility of the MACI by identifying the youngster's most salient domains that are problematic, thereby providing an optimal guide for therapy and counseling.
Harbor Hall is the parent organization that is located in Petoskey, Michigan, a city in the northwestern lower peninsula of Michigan, overlooking Little Traverse Bay. Petoskey is situated in Emmet County, a rural community of about 32,694 permanent residents. In the summer, the population increases with tourists from around the world. The local population of Charlevoix is Caucasian in the majority. Native Americans (Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians) are prominently represented. There is a sparse mixture of African American and Hispanics.
The SHARP program is located at the Round Lake Educational Center in Charlevoix, Michigan. The Safe Harbor Adolescent Recovery Program is a court program for adjudicated youth This program is utilized by many other counties in Michigan. The youth are generally ages 13 – 17 and have been found appropriate to participate in this program through a screening and referral process managed by SHARP staff. SHARP is unique in the programing it offers. The youth all attend school together on the Round Lake Education Center Campus in the City of Charlevoix. When the youth are assigned to this program, they are removed from their homes and placed in foster care for the period of time they are in the program. There is a high level of structure and accountability within the system.
The program philosophy of SHARP is to increase public safety by providing a comprehensive system of treatment services, judicial supervision, and the integration of court and community services which will result in reduced recidivism, increased school attendance, increased employability and sobriety while protecting the rights of juveniles.
Harbor Hall’s philosophy is that the disease of alcoholism and addiction is a chronic medical condition that if left untreated is fatal in most cases. Substance abuse is a primary treatable disease in which the individual, by completing treatment and following through with continuing care recommendations, can lead a meaningful, productive and happy life without the use of alcohol and other mood altering chemicals.
Harbor Hall’s Mission is to provide quality, professional Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment services. SUD treatment if for individuals and their families who have experienced problems related to the disease of addictive disorders. Harbor Hall strives to promote a higher quality of life and functioning for individuals experiencing problems related to substance misuse.
Harbor Hall’s treatment is designed for clients to learn to become responsible for their own actions. The program is composed of a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team that focuses on client strengths through cultural/age appropriate, trauma informed, and gender-specific interventions that are strength-based, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral and motivationally driven. If the individual remains honest, open and willing, the person will benefit by learning and putting into use tools and principles for living a drug and alcohol free lifestyle.
Level 1 (Adolescent and Family Outpatient Services)
The ASAM Criteria (2013) defines Level 1 as a program that may delivered in a wide variety of settings. Level 1 services are tailored to each individuals clients assessed level of clinical severity and functioning. Programs/groups are designed to help the client achieve changes in substance use or other addictive behaviors. Treatment must address major lifestyle, attitudinal, and behavioral issues that have the potential to undermine the goals of treatment or to impair the individual’s ability to cope with major life tasks without the addictive use of mood altering chemicals or other addictive behaviors such as gambling.
The programing consists primarily of counseling and education about addiction and related issues as well as mental health problems. The client’s need for psychiatric care is addressed primarily through consultation and referral arrangements. A client who is medically or psychiatrically unstable they would not be appropriate for this level of care.
- Level 1 may also represents a “step-down” from a more intensive level of care and is a part of an overall Continuing Care Plan.
- Level 1 is used for individuals who are in the early stages of change and are not yet committed to a recovery program.
- Level 1 is used for ongoing monitoring and disease management as is done with other chronic diseases.
- Length of stay varies with the severity of the individual’s illness and the response to treatment interventions.
This program is staffed by appropriately licensed (LMSW, MSW, LPC, LLP) and credentialed addiction treatment professional (CAADC, CADC or on an approved development plan). This professionals will assess and treat substance use disorders and other addictive disorders. Additionally, screening for trauma related issues and concerns will be conducted. These therapists will have sufficient cross training and supervision to understand the signs and symptoms of mental disorders, and to understand and be able to explain the uses of psychotropic medications and their interactions with substance use and other addictive disorders.
In-service trainings regarding cultural issues, age, trauma informed, and gender-specific issues are provided to clinical staff. Additionally, therapists/counselors are provided training opportunities to enhance cultural and trauma informed competencies.
Adolescent and Family programing will be developed, managed and supervised by Harbor Hall staff. The goal is to design and develop a program that utilizes best practice models of care. The program will be sensitive to education needs of the adolescents therefor after school hours and weekend services will be primarily utilized during the regular school year. Treatment success such as an improvement in functioning can be misinterpreted as indicating that treatment is completed. Maintenance strategies such as relapse prevention and strengthening protective factors are essential components. This would include checking with parental supervision, scrutinizing school performance or peer relationships, contact with probation or Family Court officials and the like to ensure that performance stays on track.
The assessment process and treatment plans will be developed and based on the identified client goals as well as the treatment courts goals. Treatment plans will include input from a multi-disciplinary team approach that include Recovery High staff. Goals will be reviewed as often as necessary to ensure that the appropriate goals for the client are being addressed.
Harbor Hall Treatment Approaches
- CHAT Assessment
- Treatment planning
- Group counseling/therapy
- Skills Group counseling/therapy
Life Skills Group will utilize the Hazelden Materials “Living in Balance” or the Trauma Affect Regulation Group Education Treatment (TARGET)
The Living in Balance core curriculum includes twelve sessions that address basic issues commonly faced by clients in early recovery. Sessions address drugs of abuse, relapse prevention, self-help programs, mental and physical health, emotional and social wellness, sexual and spiritual health, daily living skills, and vocational and educational development. The sessions are packaged in a three-ring binder with divider tabs for easy organization. You can supplement the core curriculum with an additional twenty-one sessions, which are available separately. Information in each session is presented in manageable, user-friendly segments. Clients are able to personalize how the session topic has affected their lives, and the steps they can take to make changes. Each session allows for counselor interventions, presentations, and client training. After each segment is a question-and-answer session that lets clients interact intensively with the counselor. Written assignments, along with role-play exercises where appropriate, engage clients interactively with the information.
Twelve Core Sessions These sessions can be used in any order that works best for your clients, and can be repeated if necessary. There is no beginning or ending session. The parallel treatment model allows clients to start anywhere, end anywhere, and stay current even if they miss a session.
- Definition, Terms and Self-diagnosis
- Alcohol and Other Drug Education
- Triggers, Cravings, and Avoiding Relapse
- Planning for Sobriety
- Alcohol and Tobacco
- Spirituality
- Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol
- Stress and Emotional Well-Being
- Skills for Reducing Stress
- Negative Emotions
- Anger and Communication
- Relapse Prevention
Twenty-one Supplemental Sessions These supplemental sessions of Living in Balance provide the greatest opportunity for customization. You can group sessions for specific issues (e.g. sexual abuse, grief and loss), specific client populations (e.g. clients at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases), or unique treatment tracks (e.g. spirituality and self-help).
- Introduction to Self-Help Groups
- The Twelve Steps
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Focus on AIDS
- Nutrition and Exercise
- Physical Wellness
- Problem Solving
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Human Needs and Social Relationships
- Family Matters
- You and Your Parents
- Child Development and Parenting Skills
- Educational and Vocational Goals
- Money Management
- Insurance and Consumer Credit
- Sexual Abuse
- Compulsive Sexual Behavior
- Addiction and Loss
- Grief: Responding to Loss
- Spirituality and Personality
- Relapse Prevention, Part Two
- Individual counseling/therapy
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- 12 Step Facilitation
- Social Learning Model
- 12 Step meetings (Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA),
- Recovery Oriented Systems of Care
- Psychological screening utilizing the Millon™ Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI)
The MACI™ inventory, is distinguished from other clinical instruments primarily by its brevity, its theoretical anchoring, multiaxial format, tripartite construction and validation schema, use of base rate scores, and interpretive depth. It was developed specifically for use in clinical, residential, and correctional settings. It is useful primarily in the evaluation of troubled adolescents, and may be used for diagnostic assistance, in formulating treatment plans, and as an outcome measure.
At 160 items, the MACI™ inventory is much shorter than comparable instruments. The MACI™ test is almost self-administering. Terminology is geared to a sixth-grade reading level. The great majority of youngsters can complete the inventory in approximately 20 minutes, minimizing resistance among the population for which the test is intended. The MACI™ test is linked directly to a coherent theory of personality and psychopathology, significantly increasing the inventory's interpretive value. Separate scales distinguish the more enduring personality characteristics of patients from the more acute clinical disorders they display. Profiles based on all scales may be interpreted to illuminate the interplay between long-standing characterological patterns and the distinctive clinical symptoms currently manifest. As noted, the addition of what are termed the Grossman Facet Scales assist the clinician in further refining the utility of the MACI by identifying the youngster's most salient domains that are problematic, thereby providing an optimal guide for therapy and counseling.
