At Interventions Canada, we pride ourselves in our continuing education, extensive experience, professional certifications, and wide range of specialties in areas of alcoholism and substance abuse. We are also trained to treat complex trauma and mental health disorders. With a 92% success rate – we are proven leaders in our industry!
Our wrap around services for individuals and their families are comprehensive and encompass all the stages of the intervention process. Guiding the individual and their families through treatment, early recovery, and aftercare.
An intervention is a loving, non-judgmental, factual meeting directed by a Certified Intervention Professional in which family and friends approach the individual about their issues in a calm and safe setting to introduce them to life saving help.
The goal of a successful intervention is to help your loved ones to admit the seriousness of their addiction or mental health behaviors, provide insight to how it is affecting them and their loved ones, and navigate the recovery process. Seeing a loved one struggle with addictions and mental health conditions, and not being able to help them can be one of the most painful and heartbreaking experiences.
It is critical to stop trying to manage one’s addiction or mental health behaviors and access the services a professional interventionist can offer. A professional intervention is proven to be the link that best supports the individuals to accept help and begin to find solutions to help manage the complexities of their addictions and/or mental health challenges.
Intervention Steps:
Family Assessment Meeting: Develop a thorough assessment and intervention treatment plan for the identified individual and family affected by addiction or mental health challenges.
Intervention Team: A team is formed consisting of family, friends and sometimes a coworker or boss. The intervention specialist will offer support by educating all participants on addiction, mental health challenges, recovery treatment process and other intervention processes.
Intervention Preparation Meeting: Educate those involved on the cycle of addiction, mental health challenges, recovery treatment process and letter writing assignments.
Intervention Action Plan: This includes scheduling a specific day, time of day, location, and guest list.
Treatment Referrals: There are many types of treatment centers out there. We will assist you to find one that meets your needs and coordinate with the staff.
Intervention Meeting: The Intervention is directed by the Certified Intervention professional.
8.Travel Coordination: Travel arrangements are selected to transport the client directly to treatment on the day of the intervention.
Aftercare Services: We offer post-intervention/aftercare, and case management.
At Interventions Canada, we pride ourselves on education, work experience, and professional certifications with a vast skill set to take on complex cases. With our industry-leading 92% success rate, we are highly qualified to support individuals and their families.
Throughout this this intervention modality, the family is heavily involved. This is a nonconfrontational and non-judgmental process stems from the assumption that the family is the client, and each participant has their own role in the current unhealthy ecosystem.
The first meeting involves an educational workshop on topics such as substance abuse addictions, mental health and trauma, the cycle of addiction in relationships, introduction of treatment, and recovery resources. The second meeting includes a family process group, facilitated by the interventionist with open-ended conversations, addressing real time issues, current concerns, and providing recovery solutions for the individual, as well as their loved ones. In some cases, a family intervention meeting can be the only purpose, to intervene on a loved one struggling with addictions or mental health challenges, prepared written letters and a treatment plan in place to escort the identified patient directly to treatment on the day of the intervention meeting.
Preparing for an invitational intervention. The purpose of a family engagement meeting is to foster open communication among family members, assessment on how the family is affected by their loved one’s addictions and gather evidence on the untreated person’s addiction or mental health conditions. It’s strongly suggested to not have the untreated person at the first initial family engagement meeting. It will be important to figure out who is best to attend the two-family meetings. Then invite your loved one to meet the professional interventionist and to attend the family intervention meeting.
The formal structure and supportive process of each phase of an intervention is crucial to ensure a proactive, safe, and comforting environment. The Johnson Model is based on the concept of an unexpected, or uninvited intervention of an identified person by their family and loved ones facilitated by a professional. It is important that the individual knows that the family and loved ones come from a place of love, encouragement, support, and compassion for the person requiring treatment.
A support team is customized to address the specific needs of the individual and their loved ones. Family members and loved ones, in many cases, have their own behavioral issues to address because they too are suffering significantly from the damage caused by the unhealthy behavioral patterns of the untreated individual.
Preparing for a surprise un -invitational intervention starts by developing an intervention team, followed by an assessment and treatment planning. We then begin to plan the actual intervention meeting with the untreated individual.
The second meeting is designed to plan the agenda for the intervention preparation process. Topics will include getting your loved one to the intervention meeting, understanding addiction patterns, and mental health issues, orchestrating an intervention treatment plan including letter writing assignments, treatment placement options. This is usually done prior to the actual intervention day.
Transportation will be arranged to support the patent directly to the treatment program on the day of the intervention.
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At Interventions Canada, we work and support persons with complex mental health conditions. Whatever the dynamics of your loved one and your concerns for their overall well-being, know that you are not alone. Throughout our decades of experience, we have facilitated interventions that include additional support provisions for extenuating circumstances meeting individuals struggling with trauma and mental health challenges.
Assessing the circumstances of your loved one is all included here, in the intake and assessment phase, to ensure we have appropriately facilitated and compassionately support any additional, necessary precautions while addressing all questions and concerns as it pertains to the specifics of this case.
Treatment Placement Options:
We coordinate treatment referrals and placements in advance of the intervention for the identified person in accordance wither their specific addictions while considering any pre-existing mental health concerns.
Interventions Canada functions as an independent party, one whose mandate is focused solely on supporting family members and as such be assured that our suggestions, support, guidance, education and aftercare is based entirely on our expertise, experience and your specific collective needs. Should the identified person refuse treatment, despite the intervention, alternative options and action plans for ongoing support will also be discussed for your consideration.
The Intervention:
The intervention session will include the untreated person and the intervention team. The persons attending the intervention meeting been carefully selected during the pre-intervention meetings. The intervention meeting is facilitated by either a surprise or an invitational approach.
The success of an intervention is considered the identified person’s agreement to be placed in a treatment facility, transportation and the duration of specialized treatment centers will have been prearranged during the time of treatment placement options & bookings.
Aftercare & Ongoing Support:
There is a post-intervention review and regularly scheduled follow up sessions ranging from 10-45 days. This involved follow ups on the identified person’s progress at the treatment program and family consultation with family members.
After this time, our specialist at Interventions Canada recommends a variation of ongoing support, commonly referred to as aftercare. Details of what these recommendations entail for your specific case may be discussed at any time.
We provide a 30-minute free consultation by gathering information on clients assessing the current situation and providing professional direction to discuss all options that are open to you and your loved ones.
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