| The Center is licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services as an outpatient clinic. It provides counseling, DUI screening, education, and treatment. The Center also provides a domestic violence misdemeanor treatment program. The Center is a contracted provider for Pima County Adult Probation and Indian Health Services. It is also a contracted site for the Pima County Superior Court's Drug Court Treatment Program. The Center facilitates gender specific domestic violence groups for female and male offenders as well as one co-ed DV group. |
| 1. Drug Court |
| The Center for Life Skills Development was awarded the Drug Court Provider contract in 2005. Defendants are assessed by Center therapists in order to determine the severity of their addiction. After a brief orientation to Drug Court, they are assigned either to the Intensive Out Patient (3 x a week), Relapse Prevention (2 x a week), or the standard Out Patient (1x a week) groups. clients must meet criteria to advance to the three phases of the program in order to graduate successfully. Twice weekly team meetings with the judge, public defender, probation officer, and treatment provider precede the court hearings, and ensures that all aspects of the client's progress are well known to the treatment team. |
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| 2. Substance Abuse Program |
| ◊ DUI screening, education and treatment |
| ◊ Polysubstance abuse education and treatment |
| ◊ Alcohol awareness education and treatment |
| ◊ Relapse prevention treatment |
| ◊ Re-offender treatment program sponsored through the Pima County Attorney's Office |
| ◊Intensive Out Patient Program Offender Treatment |
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| 3. Sex Offender Treatment Program |
| The mission of the Center for Life Skills Development's Sex Offender Treatment Program is to increase the safety of the community by
providing effective, research-based education and treatment to sexual offenders who are motivated to avoid recidivism who are amenable to treatment. Please click here for a complete treatment program description. |
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| 4. Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Program |
| This is a treatment program that fosters awareness of offender behavior(s) while providing instruction and tools for changing offender behavior. For first time offenders, this is a 26 week curriculum. For second and third time offenders, the program is expanded to 36 and 52 weeks (respectively). The curriculum includes some of the following: |
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| ◊ Anger or stress management |
| ◊ Communication |
| ◊ Boundaries |
| ◊ Family of origin issues |
| ◊ Co-dependency |
| ◊ How domestic violence affects children |
| ◊ Accountability and taking personal responsibility |
| ◊ Working through shame and guilt |
| ◊ Forgiveness |
| ◊ Conflict resolution |
| ◊ Family counseling |
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| 5. Anger Management Program | Clients are challenged to search for the origins of their anger, learn new ways to change their expression of anger, and improve the quality of their lives. It is a sixteen unit program. New tools will be learned such as: |
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| ◊Problem solving |
| ◊Stress management |
| ◊Developing a healthy and balanced lifestyle |
| ◊ | New clients may enter the group at any time but must first schedule an intake appointment at the office of their choice. |
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| 6. Cognitive Skills/Budgeting Program |
| This 18-26 week program challenges participants to learn effective problem solving strategies, practice new behaviors, and gain necessary life tools for managing life and their finances better. |
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| 7. Anxiety Management |
| Specialty group for those who anxiety and related anxiety disorders interfere with life, chronic alcohol/drug use, and dependency on prescription medications, skills to cope better with life, reduce anxiety symptoms, and learn how to foster healthy decision making. |
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| 8. Parenting Education |
| This program is both informative for developmental stages of childhood and parenting needs in each stage, but also supportive of the stresses of parenting, examination of the effects of addiction and lifestyle choices on children, and strategies to create healthy families. |
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| 9. Relapse Prevention |
| Designed to facilitate lasting change and recovery stabilization, this group focuses on the particulars of chronic relapse, trigger management, and development of lasting recovery tools. Often this group will address Phase II relationship needs, trauma, eating disorders, mental health problems, and other addictions interfering or ignored as a part of healthy lifestyle. |
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| 10. Hypnotherapy |
| A mode of therapy that enables an individual to achieve an altered state of consciousness which results in an increased receptiveness and response to suggestion. The outcome is relaxation. This therapy is performed by a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. |
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| 11. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) |
| A mode of therapy that assists in the decrease of intense emotions associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and trauma related anxiety. This therapy is performed by a therapist certified in EMDR. |
| 12. Private Counseling |
| Private counseling services for couples, families, general mental health issues, and substance abuse. Please click here for a list of private counseling fees. |
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| updated 5/18/08 |