Residential Life
Therapy groups are conducted daily
Therapy groups are conducted daily
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Residential Life Services
- 396 Straight St., Paterson, NJ 07503 - Directions
- Phone: 973-345-6000 x6637
- Fax: 973-333-6068
- Senior Director: David Thomas
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The management style of our residents models appropriate compassion, benevolence, fairness, structure, accountability and integrity in the treatment environment to embrace and welcome the resident with substance use / mental health disorders.
While we are clearly not a democracy, our treatment programs incorporate certain democratic principles to enhance our clinical potency. At every level of management, decision-making is carefully examined. From work schedules to group assignments, treatment team meetings, recreational, leisure activities to discipline and discharge.
The Residential Life (RL) staff in conjunction with the treatment staff play a major role in the day-to-day program functioning. The RL staff work with the clinical team and worksite supervisors assignment to worksites based upon the results of the worksite bi-monthly meetings. They participate in the multi-disciplinary treatment clinical meetings and treatment interventions. The team also arrange for agency telephone coverage, sort and distribution of agency and client’s mail; take a lead role in the coordination of recreational and leisure activities; to monitor family visitation; and the monitoring of same sex urine drug screens.
The one primary responsibility of the RL staff is to monitor and redirect the residents who do not comply with the programs rules. The method of discipline (the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using corrective action methods) needs to be within our structure of the rehabilitation therapeutic process. The goal is to provide an understanding of their misbehavior while offering an alternative behavior whenever possible. The concept of resident responsibility and choice being central to the process.
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David Thomas
Senior Director of Residential Life
David Thomas has an Associate’s Degree from Essex County and is a certified drug and alcohol counselor (CADC) with more than twenty years’ experience working in the behavioral health profession with co-occurring and substance use disorder individuals. David’s experience includes working in several levels of care including outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial care and residential care. David began his career working as a primary counselor; he also worked as a clinical team leader, aftercare coordinator and Director of Operations for over ten years. In 2004 he was awarded, The Denis Mansmann Award by Addiction Treatment Providers, Inc of New Jersey for his hard work and dedication in the field of substance abuse treatment
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