SITIKE
This organization has already been registered
Someone in your organization has already registered and setup an account. would you like to join their team?Profile owner : k****y@s****e.o*g
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide community-based counseling and education in a safe and healing environment that embraces the cultural and emotional needs of every client and to help people find hope, resiliency and life-affirming change. Our vision is a community where diversity, compassion, healing and growth are encouraged, valued and celebrated. The devastating effects of substance abuse, mental illness and violence are diminished. Relationships, families and children thrive.
About This Cause
We believe that addiction is a chronic brain disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestation. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking/use, preoccupation with the substance(s) of choice, continued use despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. We understand that it is the expectation—not the exception that our consumers will have complex/multiple challenges and that any successful initiative to address individuals with complex needs must be grounded in hope, resilience, wellness and respect for the role of culture in the health and healing of individuals, families and communities. Those seeking our services are welcomed with sensitivity to their ethnic and linguistic diversity, sexual orientation, religious background, age, and economic issues and we deliver our services with an attitude of hope and belief that the consumer can change. We employ cultural humility concepts to best serve clients from marginalized communities. We understand that here are many pathways to recovery. Individuals are as unique as their personal needs, strengths, goals, health, attitudes, behaviors and expectations for recovery. Finding the pathway to recovery is a deeply personal journey. Some pathways are grounded in cultural beliefs or traditions and involve informal community resources for supporting sobriety, others may include psychosocial and/or pharmacological treatment. Recovery for some individuals may not involve treatment. Recovery is a change process that leads an individual to make healthy choices and improve the quality of his or her life. Our role is to educate and assist consumers in making informed decisions about their relationship to drugs, alcohol, and mental health issues. We are facilitators and educators, meaning we are there to share knowledge and to create an environment where our consumers can learn, explore and process. Sitike Programs: The Discover Recovery Program is a three- to twelve-month outpatient program for adult men and women. Clients attend two to four times per week based on their individual need. The program utilizes the evidence-based work of Lisa M. Najavits, PhD, a Professor of Psychiatry and the author of Seeking Safety. The curriculum links recovery from substance abuse with recovery from mental and emotional challenges and provides guidance for both. The program combines informational lectures on addiction, mental and physical health- related issues, psycho-education group process, workbook exercises and individual counseling for a comprehensive treatment experience. Clients are assessed for additional occupational, housing, literacy and health care needs and are linked to appropriate services. The Women’s Intensive Day Treatment Program is a gender-specific structured, three-phase program with individualized, comprehensive, and intensive services. Women attend three to five days per week, four hours per day, for a minimum of three months to a maximum of one year. Transportation to and from the facility and on-site therapeutic day care for the attendees’ children (age five and under) are provided, along with one hot nutritionally-balanced meal. The program utilizes the evidence-based work of Dr. Stephanie Covington, a clinician, author, organizational consultant, and lecturer who is recognized for her pioneering work in the area of women’s trauma and other issues. The program includes group and individual counseling; case management; 12-step meeting attendance monitoring; pysychoeducational groups addressing women’s health; parenting & child development; relapse prevention; vocational rehabilitation; anger management, with reading, writing, and math classes and General Education Diploma (GED) preparedness. Our Marriage and Family Therapists and interns, and Drug and Alcohol counselors, partner with the community to provide individualized drug education for adolescents and their families. We offer a three or four hour program to promote an understanding of the continuum of drug and alcohol use, impulse management, acquisition of refusal skills and a balanced and informed decision making process. Our Domestic Violence Program consists of 52 weeks, (104 hours), of group counseling and is based on the philosophies developed and promoted by trauma specialist Lisa Najavitz PHD and by cognitive behavioral Practioners and agencies such as Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments, (S.A.V.E.), and Community Overcoming Violence,(C.O.R.A.). We are an approved provider for the San Mateo County Probation Department. Our Anger Management Program consists of 32 hours of group and individual counseling and is based on the philosophies developed and promoted by trauma specialist Lisa Najavitz, PhD and by cognitive-behavioral practitioners and agencies such as the National Curriculum & Training Institute. We are an approved provider for the San Mateo County Probation Department. For first-time offenders of the Driving Under the Influence (DUI) law, a 12, 32, 45, or 60- hour program is available to meet the court’s requirement for education. Clients learn about alcohol and other drugs, alcoholism and other addiction-related diseases, about laws related to drinking and driving, and how to avoid a second offense.