Young Adults/Students

As the family is healing and working on fixing the family system, a Sober Companion or Sober Coach is a fantastic resource to help foster the safe space needed for growth and change for both the client and the family. Young adults in particular are in desperate need of someone who can show them how this new life can actually be achieved, that there are other young people who have made it to this mythical other side where it is actually possible to live a life free from mind altering substances. It’s particularly difficult to imagine for the younger adult, as it appears most everyone is participating, and finding a new peer group who is drug and alcohol free is a daunting task. To have a fellow “friend” who can introduce them and get them on their way is absolutely essential. All too often we see the “resources” of a quality inpatient treatment experience squandered because proper safeguards and people were not in place to help a young loved one navigate life outside the walls of a treatment center.

At Reach we are blessed to have a small but dedicated number of people who happened to have gotten sober at very young ages, and as such have a wisdom and knowledge beyond their natal age. We engage this group very carefully and do extensive screenings; no one who is “younger” will be doing much Sober Companion work unless they have a varied Treatment/Clinical experience. Some of our older companions who also were sober at a young age also do really well in this capacity with the younger generation.

Family system work is a core belief at Reach Aftercare, and all of us work very hard to become a resource for not only the client, but the entire family system, with appropriate referrals a major component of how we operate to help the whole family improve their lives.