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...
Rehab alumni programs help maintain relationships between former patients, current patients, and staff. They promote both the rehab center and the...
In order to continue on the path of recovery they worked so hard to reach, patients should ideally participate in some form of aftercare program. One...
Addiction is a chronic brain disease and relapsing into substance use is quite common. Often, such a relapse is seen by the patient as failing at...
The recovery industry suffers high turnover rates for many positions, largely because of emotional stress leading to compassion fatigue and burnout...