One of our primary goals is to help you rediscover your personal capacity for responsibility and independence. We work with you to develop a personalized plan to build the skills you need before you re-enter, re-integrate, or restart your work, school, or family life.

This approach strengthens long-term recovery and becomes a key component of the breakthrough moments that make your treatment experience – and all the hard work you do – more than worth the time and effort.

Work Skills, Self-Discipline, and Motivation

Vocational and Educational Goals: Real World Experience

A critical and challenging component of recovery from a mental health and/or addiction disorder is charting a path back to the real world. What that means is different for every client. In most cases, patients want to rebuild a complete life. They want to return to work, they want to return to school, and they want the ability to fully participate in all the activities both work and school require. The treatment plans we create include opportunities to prepare for both those possibilities.

We help our patients resume educational pursuits by restoring confidence in their ability to succeed at anything they choose, and connecting them to local resources that align with their long-term goals. We help our patients resume their vocational objectives by offering classes and workshops in the basic skills needed to enter the workforce.

However, we know occupational and/or education preparation programs that focus exclusively on theoretical classroom training yield poor results in the long-term. To be effective, patients need on-site training that simulate with job responsibilities or educational performance, with at least some of the uncertainties and stresses that may involve.

CCI vocational and educational workshops include, but are not limited to:

  • Employment workshops
  • Exploring education and training options
  • Mock interviews
  • Preparing and coaching for job interviews
  • Motivational interviewing

The key is to create a safe space to try, fail, try again, and succeed – all within the supportive CCI environment. This is the essence of the experiential approach we describe above, and offers our patients the best chance at building marketable workplace skills, or skills that transfer directly to school/education at any level.

CCI programs include nine hours per week of occupational and/or educational development for each client. This helps them build confidence, overcome their fear of rejection and/or failure, and lays a solid foundation for re-integration back to real work, real school, and real life.