Promoting Positive Ends and Leaving Well

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Promoting Positive Ends and Leaving Well

• Odyssey House Victorias Independence Program

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The Program

• The Leavers planning group
• Leavers group
• Aftercare group
• Graduation

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Leavers planning group

• Readiness
• Psychological testing
• The planning group
• Single session family group
• Peer support group
• Quilt presentation

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Leavers Group

• Employment/Study
• Maintenance of relationships
• Managing the tension
• Independent living

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Aftercare

• Negotiation
• Right living
• Balance
• Maintenance

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Graduation

• Proposal
• Back where it all started
• Carols night

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demonstrated the capacity to strive and achieve,
to love and be loved, (and) by realizing
significant personal goals with a continuous
dedication to the success of your peers
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Challenges
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Continuity

• Leaving home (and taking it with you)
• Home visits and group
• A presence in the TC
• Text messaging

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Disparity

• I ran a communiqué with my boss and he threw it
  back at me

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Balance

• Works not enough
• Filling a day
• Relationships

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Relapse Prevention

• Contextualization
• Pride and coping alone
• Reference to relationships
• Managing lapse
• Text messaging
• A safe place
• Short term reinduction

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Working with Families

• Specific challenges
• Kids as clients
• Support structures

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Are we getting it right?

• Client satisfaction survey
• Some early results

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Thank you