Sober Companion (SC) Transportation Services and Recovery Coaching
What the Service Is
SC services are available 7 days per week to accompany pre- or post-detoxed individuals ages 18+ to treatment. The SC is an insured (professional liability) and trained professional Interventionist. The SC’s duty is to ensure safe arrival of a patient with active SUD and/ or complicating psychiatric and/or medical factors to the chosen treatment facility.
How the Service Works
The SC flies to the then current location of the affected individual, picks him/her up at their current location by car and transports the person to the local airport. The SC accompanies the individual on the departure flight to the treatment center as appropriate. The SC rents a car at the arrival airport and delivers the patient to the detox center or treatment center for check in.
Also includes 30 days of Recovery Coaching (RC) sessions for the patient’s family / loved ones (post treatment?). RC is facilitated psychoeducation and support for the patient’s family / support system outside treatment.
What’s In the Bundle and What it Costs
SC Roundtrip Transportation Services
Excludes:
-car and air transportation fees, hotel fees, meals and other travel related expenses which are billed at cost
-emergency room or other medical services if needed during transport.
-transport of multiple afflicted individuals in a single trip (e.g., husband and wife) which would come at a higher cost
Intervention Services
What the Service Is
Intervention Services are designed for an SUD afflicted individual who is either in a pre-contemplation (contemplative or contemplation?) or contemplation stage of change. In other words, patients who are unwilling to accept a clinically appropriate treatment plan. This works where an Intervention Specialist (IS) travels to the then current location of the afflicted individual’s family / loved ones. The IS assists the family and loved ones in moving the patient into an “action stage of change” for accepting an appropriate treatment plan.
How the Service Works
Step 1 – Pre-Intervention
The IS via telephone conducts a situational assessment and planning session(s) with the afflicted individual’s loved ones or “family” to prepare all participants for the upcoming intervention process. Psychoeducational and other training materials are provided in advance during this phase.
Step 2 – Family Intervention and Preparation
On the first day, the IS meets in person only with the family and typically at their place of residence to:
-learn about the afflicted individual
-provide psychoeducation to the family about SUD, MH disorders, and complicating factors.
-educate the family on enabling behaviors while formulating an individualized action plan for supporting the afflicted person while not enabling him/her.
-discuss the effects of enabling behaviors on the afflicted individual’s addiction as well as the family system
-outline what the family’s post-treatment home environment and behaviors need to look like
-prepare the family for the actual intervention the next day
Step 3 – Intervention Day
On the second day, the IS meets in person with both the family and the afflicted individual together to:
-facilitate therapeutic confrontation about the person’s addiction and behaviors, and the effects those have on all parties
-outline the new operating rules to be in effect immediately and going forward for all those parties involved
-strongly suggest the loved one seek treatment immediately
-if successful, (over 90% are) begin Sober Companion Transportation Services
Step 4 – Recovery Coaching
Here, the family and patient engage in RC sessions via video chat for 6 months for further guidance and support.
What’s In the Bundle and What it Costs
Intervention Services and Post Treatment Follow Up
Excludes:
-car and air transportation fees, hotel fees, meals and other travel related expenses which are billed at cost
-emergency room or other medical services if needed during transport
-transport of multiple afflicted individuals in a single trip (e.g., husband and wife) which would come at a higher cost
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