TheOpenDoorAfterCarePlan - The Open Door Christian Center, Inc.

The Open Door's After Care Plan

Oct 2010

OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN CENTER’S

ALCOHOL & DRUG REHABILITATION PROGRAM

AFTERCARE PLAN

The purpose of an aftercare plan is to help you organize what you will be doing after your treatment, e.g., living arrangements, work, finances, support groups, resources, etc.

As addicts and alcoholics, we have often been lacking in our ability or willingness to plan and organize our lives. Yet having plans is crucial to our being successful in our recovery. An aftercare plan gives you the chance to detail exactly what you’re going to be doing post-treatment. The understanding is that this is: 1.) Your plan; 2.) A realistic and workable plan; and 3.) A plan that will lead to you staying clean and sober.

Name: __________________________

Date of Birth: __________________________

Graduation Date: __________________________

Accountability Partner: __________________________

Program Director: Rev. Charles Brewington Sr.

Signed: __________________________

Resident

Signed: __________________________

Accountability Partner

Rev. Charles Brewington Sr.

Program Director

1. Living Arrangements

Address where will you be living:

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Phone Number: _____________

Who else will be living in the residence?

Name Relationship

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Will there be drugs or alcohol in the residence? __________________

Are any of the people in the residence users of alcohol or drugs? _____

If you answered yes to either of the above, explain: _____________________________

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2. Spiritual Program

Name and address of Church you will be attending:

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Will you be joining a Bible Study? _____________

If so, describe: _________________________________________________________

Prayer and Meditation: Daily prayer and meditation is critical for staying clean and sober. Describe your daily plan for a consistent prayer and meditation program, along with resources, e.g., reading materials, a prayer partner, etc: _____________________
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Morning Devotional: Describe a morning devotional that you will be doing. A morning devotional is a 15 to 20 min. time spent alone, involving prayer and meditation and using some devotional reading, e.g., Daily Reflections, Faith to Faith, Upper Room, etc: ____

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Spiritual Readings: Describe one or more spiritual readings that you will be doing on a daily basis, i.e., the name of the reading material, when, how long, etc: ____________
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3. Recovery Program

Recovery Program: This is the recovery program that you will be attending, e.g., AA, NA, Celebrate Recovery, Christian 12-Step Program, etc. We recommend that you attend one of the above mentioned programs every day for 90 days once you leave treatment. However, you must attend at least one of the above meetings three times a week for the first 90 days.

Name: _________________________________________________

Location: ______________________________________________

Meeting times you will attend: _____________________________

Program Sponsor: We encourage you to have a sponsor within your 12-step recovery program. This is a person, of the same gender as you, with at least 1 year sobriety who will help guide you through the program steps. Specify the name of your program sponsor: If you don’t have one yet, indicate when and how you will obtain one: _______________________________________________________________________
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Recovery Reading Materials: These are recovery oriented reading materials that you plan on reading on a regular basis: _______________________________________________________________________
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Accountability Partner: An Accountability Partner is a person, usually either in recovery or with some experience with recovery that acts like a guide and advisor for you after you leave treatment. They are someone that you are accountable to for carrying out your plans and recovery. Specify the name of your Accountability Partner and what contact you plan to have with him or her over the next 90 days. It is mandatory by this ministry that an accountability partner be of the same gender: ______________________
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4. Work Program

Will you be working? _________

If yes: Where: _____________________________________________________
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What kind of work: ___________________________________________

What hours: _____________________

What monthly salary: _____________

If not working, will you be looking for work? If so, what kind of work and how are you going to be looking for it? ________________________________________________

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5. Financial Program

How will you be supporting yourself financially? ______________________________
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Is this enough money to cover all your expenses? _______ If not, how will you manage

financially? ____________________________________________________________

6. Support Network

List any people that you will be able to depend on as support people in your life. These can be parents, a spouse, brothers and sisters, friends, a pastor, friends or a sponsor in a recovery or 12-step program, friends from church, your pastor, your accountability partner, etc.

7. Fitness Program

Being physically fit is one of the Holy Grails of feeling good and being healthy. If you’re not in good shape, you can’t feel good. And if you don’t feel good you’re going to have a harder time resisting the temptation to use drugs or alcohol. All recovery programs include some type of fitness program, which can consist of any one of a number of activities, e.g., working out at a gym, doing calisthenics, aerobics, free-weights, swimming, walking, running, treadmills, stationary bikes, playing sports, etc.

Outline and describe the components of the fitness program that you plan on implementing. Name the activity as well as when and for how long you will be doing it. Such as: Swimming, at the YMCA, three afternoons a week from 5:00pm to 6:00pm,

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8. Recreation Program

It’s important in recovery to re-learn how to have fun without drugs or alcohol. List 5 things that you enjoy doing and plan on doing after you leave treatment. These can be recreational activities, hobbies, and / or ministry activities.

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9. Relapse Prevention

Triggers

Triggers are people, places, things, situations, thoughts, feelings, behaviors or events that make us want to use drugs or alcohol again. They are called triggers because they trigger or set off those old thoughts, desires and cravings to get high again. For example, one trigger for a person may be seeing drug usage on TV or in movies. The solution to this trigger would be to avoid viewing such shows or movies. Or if you found yourself in such a situation, excuse yourself, leave the room, leave the place, or do whatever to remove yourself from the situation.

While we all have triggers, triggers are not the same for all people. The following are examples of different triggers: Being lonely, being depressed, talking about drug usage, being in a drug neighborhood, watching pornography, getting in an argument with somebody, getting stressed out, having a crisis to face, difficulties at work or in a relationship, loss of a friend or a spouse, getting overly hungry, getting overly tired, getting angry, being bored, hanging around with people that use drugs, being in situations where people are drinking or using drugs, e.g., a bar, having resentments, being treated unfairly, going to a casino, etc.

We all have our own individual triggers that can set us off to using again, thus we need to know what our triggers are and how to either avoid or deal with them. One of the main factors in recovery is knowing your triggers and how to handle them when they occur.

List 5 things that are triggers for you and how you plan to avoid them, or handle them when they arise.

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Relapse Scenario

Nobody knows us like ourselves. We know our strengths, our weaknesses, our triggers and our innermost thoughts better than anyone. Therefore, nobody knows better than ourselves the scenario that would lead to us relapsing, i.e., to start using drugs or alcohol again.

A relapse scenario is the sequence of events that lead up to a relapse. For example, a relapse scenario may go like this: I’m out of treatment one week and back in the real world, I have an argument with my boss at work and call in sick for the next two days. I don’t go to a meeting for those two days. I don’t call my sponsor and tell him what happened. I don’t do my prayers and meditation. I’m angry and don’t go work out. A friend of mine calls and invites me over. While there he offers me a beer. Depressed, angry, disconnected, and unhappy I say, “Why not.” And I’ve just relapsed.

Knowing yourself as well as you do, list out your own most likely relapse scenario. By listing out what might happen, you can avoid it from actually happening.

Sobriety Scenario

As we said with our Relapse Scenario, nobody knows us like ourselves. Therefore, we not only can best picture how we may relapse, but we can best picture scenarios as to how we can stay clean and sober as well.

A Sobriety Scenario is the activities or sequence of events that keep us clean and sober. For example, a Sobriety Scenario may go like this: I’m out of treatment one week and back in the real world, I have an argument with my boss at work. Upset and angry, I call my sponsor as soon as I get off work. In talking to him I get everything off my chest and feel a little better. He suggests I go to a meeting that night. I go and in the meeting I talk about what happened to me. Several people share their similar experiences and give me some good feedback. I feel even better. That night I do my prayers and meditation, and no longer feel angry. The next morning at work my boss comes up to me and apologizes for the argument we had. I apologize also and our relationship becomes better than ever.

Knowing yourself as well as you do, list out a sobriety scenario for yourself.