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Either back into intensive outpatient or sober home for two years
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 391156" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>This is a tough predicament. Most good recovery programs recommend no major changes or deecisions be made the first year of recovery. Even getting a job can set a person back and make it too difficult for them to stay on the right road if they weren't working for a long time beffore entering the program. Oddly enough, I have seen it be successful in my own family when all recommendations are followed fairly well. My cousin had to find someone to support him for 1 year because he wouldn't work his first year due to this. He did pick up, get a job, and get out on his own, sober and clean, after that year and is considered a success even today- although I think he's had three back-slides over the past 25 years, he has always gotten himself back into AA after he does and he doesn't let the backslides go for weeks before getting back into the program. So I can see where they are coming from. Is there a family member she could stay with and maybe you help pay for her support, which should be less than an intensive treatment, for a while and would the safe house/counselor be willing to work with an intensive plan if she wasn't actually living there? It sounds like you, the counselor, and daughter might need to talk about the logistics of all this to see what is doable and what isn't. In your daughter's case, she's at the age of it being all her responsibility in one way but she rreally isn't old enough to be expected to figure out a way to cover expenses for all this. Unfortunately, she's at the age where she's almost better off if it was court ordered and monitored.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 391156, member: 3699"] This is a tough predicament. Most good recovery programs recommend no major changes or deecisions be made the first year of recovery. Even getting a job can set a person back and make it too difficult for them to stay on the right road if they weren't working for a long time beffore entering the program. Oddly enough, I have seen it be successful in my own family when all recommendations are followed fairly well. My cousin had to find someone to support him for 1 year because he wouldn't work his first year due to this. He did pick up, get a job, and get out on his own, sober and clean, after that year and is considered a success even today- although I think he's had three back-slides over the past 25 years, he has always gotten himself back into AA after he does and he doesn't let the backslides go for weeks before getting back into the program. So I can see where they are coming from. Is there a family member she could stay with and maybe you help pay for her support, which should be less than an intensive treatment, for a while and would the safe house/counselor be willing to work with an intensive plan if she wasn't actually living there? It sounds like you, the counselor, and daughter might need to talk about the logistics of all this to see what is doable and what isn't. In your daughter's case, she's at the age of it being all her responsibility in one way but she rreally isn't old enough to be expected to figure out a way to cover expenses for all this. Unfortunately, she's at the age where she's almost better off if it was court ordered and monitored. [/QUOTE]
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