Many New Life Recovery Service clients have been out of the job market for a significant period of time, or have never worked in a mainstream job. Many believe they cannot be employed. A significant emphasis is placed on addressing fears and concerns which may inhibit success in finding a job and maintaining it. All pre-employment, placement, and follow-up services are provided by the New Life Recovery Service Transitional Case Manager.

The primary goal of a Therapeutic Community is to foster personal growth. This is accomplished by changing an individual's lifestyle through a community of people working together to help themselves and each other.

People in a Therapeutic Community (TC) are members, as in any family setting, not patients, as in an institution. These members play a significant part in managing the TC and acting as positive role models for others.

The TC represents a highly structured environment with defined boundaries, both moral and ethical. It employs community imposed rules and guidelines, as well as earned advancement of status and privileges, as part of the recovery and growth process. Being part of something greater than oneself is an especially important factor in facilitating positive growth.

Members and staff act as facilitators, emphasizing personal responsibility for one's own life and for self-improvement. The members are supported by staff as well as being serviced by staff, and there is a sharing of meaningful labor so that there is a true investment in the community, sometimes for the purpose of survival.

Life Skills Services

New Life Recovery Service provides a number of Life Skills courses that assist the individual in attaining better levels of communication, a hightened awareness of self as well as healthy interpersonal skills. By building self-respect and learning to keep a consistent level of integrity, life skills courses increase success and the quality of life. The courses listed below have shown high success rates and are made available by the Association of Better Living and Education (ABLE).

The Purpose of Learning: This course teaches the basics of learning and includes information on exchange, goals and how to reach them. Practical exercises are geared toward understanding how learning enables a person to reach their goals.

Communication Course and Training Routines: Breaks good communication down into parts. Each part is drilled until the student is competent. This provides the basics to clearly and easily communicate with others and improves a person's ability to rationally and calmly confront life and the situations one faces using communication the tool.

Learning Improvement: Reveals the main reasons a person gives up study and provides specific methods that enable the student to understand and aply what he/she learns.

Recognizing Antisocial Behavior: Helps the student to identify negative influences that contribute to the emotional highs and lows of his/her life and gives the individual the ability to handle these influences. This knowledge is essential to achieve greater personal stability and happiness in life.

The Way to Happiness: Replaces the "criminal code of conduct" by teaching comon sense values that anyone can use to live a stable and productive life and, most importabtly, to regain and maintain self-respect.

Personal Values and Integrity: Covers ethics, honesty and how a person can correct past harmful actions. This course gives the basic principles and tools to regain one's integrity, honor, and improves relationships with others. Practical exercises focus on taking responsibility for one's actions by confronting the truth about them.

Changing Conditions in Life: Enables a person to evaluate and improve his/her performance in life. This course teaches how to recognize the exact condition of any area of life, and provides the exact formula to improve that condition. It also shows how to take responsibility for any past harmful actions so that one can truly move out of those past conditions and into a better life.

Successful Parenting Skills (if applicable): Gives the tools to successfully raise happy and loving children who can become healthy and productive members of society.