On April 29th & 30th Phoenix Programs participated in SAMHSA’s Services in Supportive Housing Annual Grantee Conference. James Kimbro, David Helling, Eskil Hudson, and Steve Jones attended as participants of the Modified Therapeutic Community/Supportive Housing Program that is funded by the SAMHSA grant. Phoenix Programs is one of the first nine recipients of this grant, and as such was able to offer guidance to the now 77 total recipients of the grant that were in attendance at the conference.
Presentations attended included: Trauma Informed Care, Motivational Interviewing, Health Care Reform and …

Phoenix Programs, Inc. provides a continuum of substance abuse treatment services to rural populations in Missouri. Previous studies have indicated that the Modified Therapeutic Community (MTC) approach can improve the effectiveness of outpatient treatment. In 2009, Phoenix Programs integrated the MTC philosophy and approach, which uses the peer community as an agent of healing, with a partial-day outpatient substance abuse treatment program. Two treatment groups were compared retrospectively; a 2008 standard partial-day treatment (S-PDT) cohort (n=30) that enrolled in the outpatient program prior to its integration with the MTC approach, …