With event planning, treatment centers can learn a lot from each other. What kinds of events do various facilities usually offer? Leading centers...
Many rehab alumni programs offer exciting social gatherings to support recovery with lasting relationships. The types of activity vary from facility...
Should alumni services take patients through the Twelve Steps? Do Twelve-Step programs work in their current format? Or should they be modernized to...
Alumni services can play an important part in continuum of care after discharge. What roles should alumni services play in post-treatment care? How...
When setting up an alumni group, ask “what is its purpose?” Make it relevant for your alumni and be consistent with your mission philosophy. Our...
How do you respond when patients or alumni are openly negative about their rehab experience and refuse to be contacted? Do you cease all...
One of the challenges of an alumni program is to keep in touch with former patients over long periods of time. Although staying connected can be...
Various alumni directors in this group have alumni group pages on Facebook, where they are connected with alumni, staff, or industry professionals...
The last step in the 12-Step tradition declares that as the result of working the Steps, recovering addicts experience a spiritual awakening that...
Where do you start if your treatment program doesn’t have an alumni program yet? How do you revive alumni services that have been in the doldrums for...