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Applied in 2008

Beit T'Shuvah

Beit T'Shuvah

Program Facts

  • Paid (FTE) Staff Working: 35
  • Program Participants Last Year: 1000
  • Meets about 30 time(s) with each participant per month
  • Participants remain in the program for 9 months

Volunteers

Volunteers per month: 20

Volunteers are trained:

Volunteer Training
AlwaysRarely

Volunteers are actively recruited:

Volunteer Recruiting
AlwaysRarely

Board Activities

  • Formally reviews the performance of the chief executive officer at least once every two years.
  • Formally approves the budget.
  • Ensures that arrangements with outside fund raising firms are made in writing.
  • Receives information about the financial arrangements with such firms and, if applicable, the anticipated portion of the gross proceeds that goes to the organization.
  • Has formally approved a conflict of interest policy and regularly monitors it to ensure adherence.
  • Receives, at least quarterly, the organization's financial statement.
  • Receives, at least annually, an auditor's management letter and report.
  • Convenes an audit committee.

Outcomes & Measures: (self-reported)

Outcome 1
To discover or recover sobriety and integrity.

Measure
Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC) and Locus of Control sub-scale

Outcome 2
To unify/integrate the negative and positive parts of the self.

Measure
Spiritual - Self and spiritual awareness (SWB)

Outcome 3
To encourage a shift from "either/or" thinking to "both/and" thinking.

Measure
Mental Health - Thoughts, cognitive distortion, strengthen adaptive forms of thinking (BASC)

Outcome 4
To transfer negative experiences into benefiting adolescents by using the residents' own stories as prevention.

Measure
Fetzer spiritual scales

Change Process: (self-reported)

Beit T'Shuvah defines addiction as a spiritual "dis-ease" - the inability to integrate the different parts of self. Our process is an integrative recovery model combining a 3-pronged approach - the traditions and spirituality of Judaism, the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and traditional psychotehrapy. In helping our residents discover or recover their sobriety and therefore their integrity, they also shift from "either/or" thinking to "both/and" thinking - from hopelessness to hope, from victimization to responsibility, from extrinsic to intrinsic self-worth, from comparison to self-accpetance, from "why bother?" to "I matter". This process is built upon individual counseling, group therapy, art therapy, music, drama and prevention. The overall goal is to bring together intentions and actions - the basis for integrity.