{"id":3301,"date":"2014-02-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.hamakmarketingnumerique.com\/announcements\/aftercare-working-better-leverage-community-services-respond-client-needs-140224"},"modified":"2016-04-20T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T22:32:13","slug":"aftercare-working-to-better-leverage-community-services-to-respond-to-client-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/aftercare-working-to-better-leverage-community-services-to-respond-to-client-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftercare: Working to better leverage community services to respond to client needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Reintegrating back into everyday life is often the most vulnerable point in an addict\u2019s recovery, as new values, behaviours, and attitudes are put to the test in the outside environment. Portage\u2019s two-year <a href=\"\/social-reintegration-aftercare-services\">Aftercare Program<\/a> helps graduates manage this challenge, giving them support and tools to help them withstand negative influences and cope with the stresses of mainstream society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is increasing recognition in the field of substance abuse treatment that addiction is a chronic and relapsing condition,\u201d states Peter Vamos, Executive Director of Portage. \u201cFor this reason, aftercare is an integral part of any treatment program, and an ongoing continuum of care approach to treating addiction produces best results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to continually improve the quality of services, Portage recognises that aftercare support needs to be more long term, and that even two-years of dedicated services is often not enough for an individual to maintain long term sobriety.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, Portage\u2019s approach to aftercare includes both direct services in the form of workshops, groups, supportive counselling, adjustment counselling, and family counselling, as well as access to a network of outside community resources. Portage has been working to develop relationships with service organisations in clients\u2019 home communities so that they have continued direct access to local support for as long as they need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise that maintaining a drug-free lifestyle is a great challenge and that our graduates will need services in one form or another for years to come,\u201d explains Mr. Vamos. \u201cWe expect that by combining our aftercare services with a network of community resources in the individual\u2019s home community, we will be able to better respond to our clients\u2019 needs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reintegrating back into everyday life is often the most vulnerable point in an addict\u2019s recovery, as new values, behaviours, and attitudes are put to the test in the outside environment. Portage\u2019s two-year Aftercare Program helps graduates manage this challenge, giving them support and tools to help them withstand negative influences and cope with the stresses&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/aftercare-working-to-better-leverage-community-services-to-respond-to-client-needs\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Aftercare: Working to better leverage community services to respond to client needs\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,6,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-atlantic-news","category-ontario-news","category-quebec-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31095,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/31095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}