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The benefits of participating in a Road Recovery TRAX PROGRAM:

• Placing participants with a group of wellness - minded peers “subjects” participants to positive "peer pressure"
• Redefining youth culture by exposing its self destructive aspects as unnecessary
• Challenging pre-conceived notions of a prescriptive “program” by inviting total ownership of the process once involved
• Adjunct to treatment requires having a primary treatment provider
• Participation increases retention in concurrent treatment and maximizes associated protective factors
• Personal investment increases retention in the program

• 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 thru creative means help move toward awareness and resolution

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

ROAD RECOVERY - 'Breaking the Cycle'

Dr. Thomas McClellan, PHd. Treatment Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. David Smith, Founder, Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic Medical Director

Scott Bienenfeld, MD

Alan L .Green, MD Chairman Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School

Institutions that have hosted Road Recovery TRAX PROGRAMS