For decades, the traditional addiction treatment model has focused on short-term, 30-to-90-day programs. While well-intentioned, this approach often fails to address the chronic nature of addiction, leading to a frustrating cycle of relapse. At New Choices Treatment Center, we believe a different path is necessary. We understand that addiction is a chronic illness that requires long-term support, which is why we developed our innovative, yearlong Camino Pathways program.
Grounded in the Transformational Model of treatment, Camino Pathways is a multidisciplinary approach that empowers individuals to create a new life. We reject outdated ideas of powerlessness and instead implement an Empowerment Model, which focuses on your unique strengths and abilities. Our clinical team works with you to create a truly individualized plan, incorporating over a dozen of the best evidence-based and experiential therapies to help you redefine who you are and set a course for who you want to become.
Because substance use impacts every facet of life, so too should recovery. A core component of our program is the creation of a Strategic Living Map. This is a personal guide, co-created with our trained professionals, that provides a clear plan for rebuilding key areas of your life—including employment, relationships, community involvement, and housing—ensuring you have the tools for a future of intention and meaning.
Camino Pathways Rehabilitation Program
Camino Pathways is an innovative multidisciplinary approach to treating addiction. It is a yearlong process that our patients and their families undertake to create a new life. Grounded in the Transformational Model of treatment, Camino Pathways, incorporates over a dozen of the best evidence based and experiential therapies to create a truly individualized treatment plan for each of our clients.
It implements the Empowerment Model, which focuses on a client’s strengths and abilities rather than on their problems, pathologies, or declaring powerlessness. In this way each client is empowered to see his or her true potential, reframe their beliefs with a clear path to redefining who they are, and in that way set a course for who they want to become.
The Impact of Substance Use
Substance use disorder impacts every facet of an individual’s life, so to should recovery. At New Choices we want to help prepare our clients for a future life of intention and meaning. That’s why all treatment pathways focus on creating and executing a strategic living map with each our clients.
The strategic living map is a personal guide to:
- Employment
- Relationships
- Community involvement
- Housing and more.
Strategic living maps are created by the client with the assistance of New Choices trained professionals. As clients continue down the path to recovery we will help them implement their plan systematically and effectively. It’s a strategic approach to healthy living and its one of our keys to recovery success.
Addiction Treatment Transitions
We have created a bridge program for our clients to assist them with their transition from their stay in treatment. The bridge program consists of our hand selected sober living communities. We have taken the time and care to individually vet each of the sober living communities that we work with. We do this to ensure continuity of care for each of our clients. For example, if a local sober living community cannot commit to getting our clients to their intensive outpatient sessions then we won’t work with them. It’s that simple.
Level of Care in Rehab
Camino Pathways extends much longer than the traditional stay at the IOP level of care. Camino Pathways is really a promise to our clients that we will be with them for a year and that the people we work with will be with them for that same year. We are going to be in constant contact whether its through our medical department, psychiatric department, milieu department, alumni program, various community events, or our Active Recovery Coaching program. All of which our clients and alumni have free access to for a year or more.
Commitment to Recovery
At its core what Camino Pathways really is, is a commitment and a promise that we will be with you on your personal pathway of recovery for at least the first year. We will be there to support your growth, share in the travails, and to celebrate the victories with you. New Choices Treatment Center is more than just a treatment facility. It is a community of people dedicated to recovery. It is a family.
I hope this short article has helped you to better understand our Camino Pathways. At New Choices Treatment Centers we are here to serve. If you or a loved one is suffering from substance use disorder please reach out to us today. We are here to help.
We can be contacted through our website or by phone at (726)888-7003
Warmest regards,
Robert Olivarez
C.E.O
If you or a loved one is struggling with overcoming addiction, New Choices Treatment Centers can help! Our Camino Pathway Program is an innovative approach to addiction recovery that guides you to a new, healthier you.