Programs

PROGRAMS

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Employment/Vocational Skills Training

Divine Light provides employment and vocational skills training by qualified and experienced staff members. The curricula is built around information that does not require session to session attendance, but sessions that are able to stand alone and provide adequate information to participants. Additionally, Divine Light provides opportunities for participants to receive training in Barbering, Hair Styling and Food Services at our vocational training sites (Plumbing & Carpentry). This component of the offer is accomplished through a number of referrals and collaborations of the Divine Light project. Participants are naturally encouraged to participant in the maintenance and upkeep of the residence learning valuable skills related to plumbing, carpentry and custodial responsibilities.

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Short Term Emergency Recovery Housing Services

Divine Light provides immediate “Live” staff for after hour Short-Term Emergency Recovery Housing Services for situations that call for placement and immediate transition into a safe, sober and secure environment. We are available 24 / 7 / 365 days a year to serve the community. The agency has posted an emergency number that is accessible and available to all prospective participants.

Divine Light provides adequate and quality basic services to those individuals referred by DBH/MRS and ensure immediate access to healthcare while stabilizing the individual referral.

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Nutrition Education and Support

Nutrition Education & Support services by Divine Light allows participants in the project to understand “wellness as a critical area for recovering people”. On-going self-care enhances the quality of life in sobriety and helps prevent relapse. Divine Light promotes nutrition and wellness and understands that they are comprised of a combination of factors which encompass the whole of a person’s physical, spiritual, and emotional health and being. Our intervention and skills offering addresses these three (3) areas. We teach wellness skills and explain why wellness is important and achievable in one’s recovery process. We hold participants responsible for incorporating the skills into your daily life while they are in the facility; and we help them plan meals, snacks and self-care.

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Spiritual Mentoring and Counseling

Divine Light believes that in order to treat a disorder, the core beliefs and faulty thinking that have plagued individuals long before they began to use drugs or alcohol must be addressed. Divine Light uses an eclectic approach when mentoring persons in this vital area of recovery. Research shows that those who live a spiritual life or follow a spiritual belief system are more adept at refraining and abstaining from illicit drug usage for multiple years.

All of our group sessions focus on principled living to avoid persons’ feelings that the beliefs of others are being forced onto them. Some of the spiritual principles that are explored include: Belief, Hope, Trust, Reconciliation, Forgiveness, Repentance and Love, etc; all of these areas directly impact the healthiness of the soul.

Principled living was contrary to the lifestyle that our prospective residents lived in the streets; their former life was based off of distrust and dishonesty.

Divine Light has several staff members who are clergy (Licensed and Ordained), with education in the areas of Biblical and Theological Studies as well as experience teaching and ministering Islam. Spirituality has different meanings for different persons and we povide help for people with an array of experiences with religion whether they are Atheist, Agnostic, Christian, Jewish or Muslim.

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Anger Management and Didactic Education

We provide participants with education concerning 12 Step Recovery, Anger Management, Relapse Prevention and Peer Mentoring.

The purpose of this program is to enable the participants to ventilate thoughts and emotions towards another person in a constructive manner. The facilitator and the group encourage participants to ventilate emotions so that they can become more in touch with themselves and their relationships with others. Participants learn how to work within a system to address problems, anger, coping skills, behavior, conflicts, etc. Participants learn how to work through conflicts with one another verbally, to resolve them, to feel more comfortable with self, and maintain relationships. Participants also learn how to become assertive verbally and how to listen.

The purposes and motives of members in the group have a strong effect on the effectiveness of the process and the experience learned by the individual member. Since no one can predict with absolute certainty what impact a conflict will have on another person, it is wise to elicit feedback from the person being confronted about the impact it had on him.

All services provided by staff of Divine Light ensure participants receive supportive services appropriate to their individual needs and improve their quality of life.

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Life Skills

Life skills are the skills that a person must possess in order to successfully live in today's world. These include knowing how to work at a job and be part of a team, manage money, manage time, live as part of a family and learning effective communication skills.

Communication: how to manage anger or frustrating situations, how to communicate their own needs, and how to deal with conflict.

Time Management: how to deal with stressful mornings, set out your work or school items the night before, setting an alarm clock and daily reminders, and using a time-management calendar.

Employment: learning to communicate with co-workers and supervisors, dealing with conflict, learning how to be on-time and work as part of a team.

Money: learning how to balance a checkbook, make a bank deposit, use an ATM card, withdraw money, write out a check, pay bills, and save for retirement.

Relationships: how to effectively communicate and learning about loyalty in relationships is imperative. Also, knowing what constitutes an improper relationship is very important to adults who may not have learned how to discern between good and bad relationships at a young age.