Native American Services
Volunteers of America Northern Rockies Health Care Services is committed to offering integrative Native American Cultural programming within gender-specific treatment programs.
We are open and willing to treat everyone with a substance addiction who has a desire to be sober.
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment with Transfer to Wellbriety
Currently, at The Life House (men’s facility) and The Gathering Place (women’s facility), we offer a high-intensity, long-term, medically-monitored co-occurring residential treatment program (ASAM III.5). The Wellbriety Native American Cultural Track is offered to residents as an enhancement to this residential treatment program. The Cultural Track is intended to teach addicts and alcoholics to use Native Culture to get clean and sober.
After a resident has completed the admission process, they are placed in their respective facility. Residents participate in each facility’s daily ASAM III.5 programming activities, along with eight hours of the Wellbriety Native American Cultural Track during the treatment week. The Sweat Lodge Ceremony is a Therapeutic Sweat Lodge performed weekly.
Curriculum: The Wellbriety Native American Cultural Track Curriculum consists of the Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps Teachings. Residents will complete Steps 1-5 of the Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps teachings. This includes The Mending Broken Hearts: Healing Unresolved Grief and Inter-generational Trauma curriculum where they will learn about how to begin to heal from unresolved grief and inter-generational trauma by completing and sharing their own Personal Loss and Trauma Time Lines and Incomplete Relationships Time Lines. Residents will participate in the Red Road to Wellbriety Book Study groups where they will share their answers to the Study Guide questions with their peers. Residents will also participate in Spiritual Reflection, which consists of Morning and Evening Prayer using the Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons book. Residents participate in a sweat lodge ceremony as part of their recovery journey.
Groups are focused on “Self,” as in awareness, care, improvement, empowerment and knowledge among others. Groups include lectures, open discussion and presentation of homework, and use feedback and communication.
The goal is to successfully reintegrate residents back into their community while maintaining a strong, sober recovery process. To reach this goal, the program focuses on teaching and reintroducing the importance of tribal spirituality and culture to help people live in harmony with the traditional 12 Steps model.
White Bison Certified Wellbriety Treatment Program
The White Bison Certified Wellbriety Treatment program at The Gathering Place and The Life House is a recovery support transitional living program which focuses on relapse prevention as well as managing social and familial stressors as residents reintegrate back into their communities.
If a client enters the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program with the intention of transferring to the Wellbriety program, they will continue completing the Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps curriculum (Steps 6-12), will continue to work on the Red Road to Wellbriety Book by participating in study groups and will continue to use the Mending Broken Hearts tools to help with healing the unresolved grief and inter-generational trauma issues in their lives.
The curriculum for those clients who have successfully completed a Residential Inpatient Treatment Program (ASAM III.5) or Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) (ASAM II.1) is as follows:
Curriculum: The Wellbriety Native American Cultural Track Curriculum consists of the Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps Teachings. Residents complete Steps 1-12 of the Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps teachings. The Mending Broken Hearts: Healing Unresolved Grief and Inter-generational Trauma curriculum teaches how to begin healing from unresolved grief and inter-generational trauma by completing and sharing their own Personal Loss and Trauma Time Lines and Incomplete Relationships Time Lines. Residents participate in the Red Road to Wellbriety book study groups where they share their answers to the study guide questions with peers. Residents also participate in spiritual reflection, which consists of Morning and Evening Prayer using the Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons book. Residents participate in a sweat lodge ceremony as a part of their recovery journey.
A client is eligible to join the “Warriors in Recovery” Wellbriety Circle which meets twice a month as the Wellbriety Aftercare Support Group.
Residents can attend regular in-house and outside AA and NA meeting. Program participants can also take part in local tribal events.
The goal of the program is to help successfully reintegrate the resident into their rural community while maintaining a strong, sober recovery program, and to support them in sharing the message of the program back in their home communities. This program focuses on teaching or reintroducing the importance of their tribal spirituality and culture.
Admission Requirements:
A resident applying for the entire program must:
- Provide ASI/ASAM III.5 assessment
- Have a complete physical with negative TB test
- Complete application and write a letter indicating their motivation for treatment
A resident applying ONLY for Wellbriety must:
- Have a minimum of 30 days of sobriety
- Have successfully completed a Residential Inpatient Treatment Program (ASAM III.5) or Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) (ASAM II.1)
“Warriors in Recovery” Sober Living Program
If occupancy allows, a resident may request to continue with their Wellbriety Program by participating in the “Warriors in Recovery” Sober Living Program.
To inquire about our services, call 1.307.672.2044 or 1.866.843.0351. Or email us at: admissions@voanr.org