Benefits/Outcomes

 

• Staff members exemplifying self-help increase openness and attraction to a program of change
• Working together on the shared common goal fosters personal investment, connectedness (cohesion) and cooperation
• Support network of likeminded peers combats isolation
• Healthy substitute for idle unstructured time reduces the risk of returning to unwanted behaviors
• Structured “scripted” rules and roles ease adjustment
• Availability of creative projects provides an outlet to alleviate social anxiety intrinsic to novel settings
• Forum to express issues in a relaxed, safe, confidential environment among peers adds to the ability to work though issues
• Sharing creates an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect as well as an outlet for “venting”
• Feedback from the meetings and suggestions of peers and staff provide practical, “hands-on” coping tools
• Receiving healthy, undistorted, constructive, realistic feedback without judgment aids “ego sizing”

 

• Achieving incremental pre-set tasks to accomplish the ultimate goal while being able to claim the credit for the accomplishment
• Permission to make mistakes and be imperfect
• Not having to adhere to a preset expectation invites trust in the creative process
• Not having to know or produce a certain outcome increases comfort with the process
• Identifying strengths, eliciting creative input helps in forming a new healthy identity
• Non-verbal ways to address issues through creative means help move toward awareness and resolution

 

• Socializing without altered states helps to extinguish dysfunctional patterns
• New positive experiences and opportunities to explore newly-discovered creative ability, learning new coping tools and trade/music skills and producing tangible results

Road Recovery VirtualTrax Program (April 2020 – June 2020):
State Opioid Response grant (#2) from OASAS

Road Recovery (In-Person) TraxProgram (April 2019 – March 2020):
State Opioid Response grant (#1) from OASAS
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Jewish Board of Family & Children Services – Program Evaluation Study
Road Recovery’s 2018 RoadTrax Program Involving: participants (ages: 14-18 years)
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Jewish Board of Family & Children Services – Program Evaluation Study
Road Recovery’s 2012 RoadTrax Program Involving: (36) program participants (ages: 14-18 years)
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Treatment Research Institute (TRI)
TRI’s Collaboration with Road Recovery (presented: 2014)
Read the report here