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Frequently Asked Questions About A New Direction

The long-term format is designed for 6-12 month programs

Meets RSAT funding requirements!

A New Direction is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral therapy treatment program that trains chemically dependent offenders to challenge their thinking in order to change their criminal and addictive behavior patterns.

• real inmates tell the real story about recovering from a life of addiction and crime
• cognitive-behavioral approach helps inmates see how their attitudes and assumptions fuel destructive behaviors
• modular structure allows for easy customization to meet individual, facility, and budget needs
• can be wholly implemented as a new program or implemented in part to enhance your existing program
• features built-in tools for measuring outcomes
• provides framework for standardized treatment from facility to facility

Six Modules
A New Direction consists of six core modules: Intake & Orientation, Criminal & Addictive Thinking, Drug & Alcohol Education, Socialization, Relapse Prevention, and Release & Reintegration. Each of these module features videos, client workbooks, and facilitator's guides.

The DVD Videos
Taped in Minnesota correctional facilities, these videos present a powerful, direct, and liberating message about finding a life of recovery and freedom. Inmates, not actors, candidly discuss the tactics they have used to exact power and control over others.

The Workbooks
Based on real-life experiences of incarcerated addicts involved in treatment, the workbooks provide information, exercises, and activities to help offenders see that criminality and addiction are thinking problems before becoming behavior problems. Workbooks use phrases and describe situations that are familiar to criminals and addicts. Quotes from offenders underscore key concepts.

The Facilitator's Guides
Each facilitator's guide contains the entire client workbook with sidebar notes, suggestions, and supplemental information for facilitators.

Administrative Guidebooks
These guidebooks provide a thorough understanding of the philosophy of corrections-based treatment programming, examine the criminal/addictive thinking connection, and offer practical information for successful program implementation and operation.

Training
You can implement A New Direction with ease. Hazelden offers training on many products to help you develop an in-depth understanding of the program and its components and to create a long-term plan for your implemtation. Click here to find out more.

Budget Concerns
Contact Hazelden's Publishing and Educational Outreach to determine your most cost-effective A New Direction package, or call 1-800-328-9000.

A New Direction outcome survey files are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format and require that Adobe Acrobat Reader be installed on your computer. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, Click Here for download and installation instructions.