Glasgow Residential Service, Glasgow
Therapeutic Community, offering individually designed programmes for people with alcohol dependency.
About us:
Phoenix Futures Glasgow Alcohol Residential Service is located on Keppochill Road in a modern and well appointed building with extensive grounds. The service has separate sleeping areas for 39 men and women in twin rooms as well as a communal lounge, small meeting rooms and staff offices.
Glasgow is a Therapeutic Community, offering individually designed programmes for people with alcohol dependencies, which include therapeutic group work on self esteem, confidence building, relapse prevention and others, one to one counselling and self-help and peer support.
Onsite and offsite activities include swimming, the gym, saunas, art galleries, theatre visits, football and badminton games as well as service user organised evenings like DVD nights.
The Glasgow Residential Service operates a skills and alcohol education training programme.
The service provides a safe, supportive and structured environment where residents participate in groups and one-to-one sessions to explore the underlying reasons for their dependency. Through a process of self-awareness and understanding patterns of personal behaviour, residents are encouraged to acquire new skills and formulate strategies that will enable them to develop a healthy, alcohol free lifestyle and return to independent living in the community.
The service offers a comprehensive alcohol therapeutic programme delivered by fully trained and professional staff. This is provided within a residential setting, ensuring access to a range of health and social care support services to suit individual needs. Participation in the therapeutic programme helps to promote change by encouraging self-worth and personal responsibility, challenging individual attitudes and behaviour, and encouraging the development of life and social skills. Key features of the Service include: therapeutic community programme abstinence based fast access into treatment fully integrated detoxification programme individualised treatment plans group and one-to-one work additional gender specific groups offender behaviour work fully integrated skills and education programme relapse prevention resettlement support leisure and sports activities camping, gorge walking, mountain biking, sailing and team building, etc.
The alcohol rehabilitation programme is tailored to your individual needs, within a framework of 4 Stages. They are: Induction Primary Stage Senior Stage Resettlement The length of time you spend in each stage will depend on your individual needs and how quickly you achieve the goals identified for each stage of treatment. On admission to the service, individual care plans are developed between you, the key worker and multi-disciplinary team. As you progress through the programme, care concentrates on life skills and education to sustain long-term recovery on leaving the service. Induction is the settling in stage of the programme when you can expect a high level of support from residents and staff. You will begin to learn about the programme and therapeutic community structure, the house routine and rules, while engaging and identifying with those people around you. You may also experience some withdrawals or undergo a detoxification programme at this stage.
Contact Details:
Glasgow Residential Service
Phoenix Futures
586 Keppochhill Road
Glasgow
G22 5HS
Telephone: 0141 333 9357