Habilitat Inc

I graduated in1976 at 18 years old. I stayed on staff for 1 year afterwards. As a 16 year old, out of control teen age monster, I was on a sure path to addiction and jail with my stupid actions. I highly reccomend Habilitat to those who \"WANT\" to change for the better. Today, with the smarts of a 62 years old man, I can look back and say habilitat was the smartest thing I ever did. If you are prone to whining and complaining and being pampered, this isn\'t for you. Only serious people will allow habilitat to work for them. Trust the process, it works if you let it.

Helping residents at Habilitat prepare for their high school equivalency diploma has given me some gratifying insights I didn’t expect. Undoubtedly this is a clear indication of how genuine and well-conceived the organizations’ structure and operating plan is. The three qualities I saw immediately in the residents are: 1.) They were completely accepting of one another with no signs of labelling or judgement. There are no cliques or classes, just brothers and sisters. 2.) The residents simply refuse to quit on this chosen path to their recuperation. Regardless of their previous backgrounds or their current stage in recovery, their commitment to regaining their lives is clearly evident. 3.) They also understand that accountability is central to their success. There is no talk of the past or distribution of blame; they simply choose to press on. These are qualities that will contribute to society. These are also changes that must be developed by living them over an extended period of time. The basis of this recovery process is not built on medical research or psychiatric theory but on the life experience of the founder. And from what I see in the classroom, the most certain truth is experience. It is my privilege to work with these incredible students, within this well envisioned, sincere organization.

Habilitat changed my life and my perspective. As a prior resident and now a graduate, i can say I found their treatment method to be very effective. Before I came into the program I was a heroin user and was on many different psych medications and had just about every diagnosis given to me in the book. I was practically a slave to these things believing that i could never be truly happy unless i was on something. Habilitat tought me that by making better choices, developing a positive mindset, positive affirmation, helping others before myself, developing my own belief system and standing by it, and many other things, that I could get over my need to use. It is a difficult program, not for the weak minded individual, but for those who truly want change and freedom, but upon finishing it (I graduated almost 6months ago) I can say I am happy and I am not on any medications anymore. No, life is not perfect. But it is good, i am grateful, I have realized in order to truly live i must learn to feel things and be uncomfortable at times. To be successful i have to step outside my comfort zone and work hard to achieve my goals. Habilitat may not be a traditional rehab program offering psych meds and 12 step meetings, but honestly none of those programs worked for me. They were bandaid programs not solving the problem long term. I was able to make excuses for myself in those programs "I have a disease, relapse is part of my story" so on and so forth. So despite what some "scientific data" might spit out about these different programs and how they are better, I can offer a real experience of someone who truly wanted to better her life. I have taken responsibility and accountablity for my own life today. I pay my own bills, I exercise, I have a full time job, I am 24 years old and have dreams and goals that would have not been made possible if it weren't for the "tough love" that I recieved. To realize that we have a choice is a very powerful thing that i think many people fail to take into account. Most of the time i think its for fear that then they have to actually be responsible for the things they do. Anyways, great program! Definetly gave me the tools i needed to be successful! Thank you Habilitat! Also there are scholarships available for those who need them. I went on a full scholarship.

Habilitat has been the greatest blessing my families life. My son would be dead or in jail by now. His unpredictable, self destructive erratic behavior consumed our families emotional time an health. Habilitat have given all of us our life back. We are all so grateful and blessed to not loose a really important member of our family become the healthy man we know he can be.

Our son was initially accepted into this program. However, as things were moving quickly, and we were making flight arrangements, we changed our mind at the last moment due to some concerns after further scrutinizing the final paperwork. We are disappointed in that we wasted a lot of important time in seeking to enroll our son in this program. But the biggest red flag came when we requested that a very minor, but very important, medically documented need be provided to our son. We felt the admissions counselor was dismissive. Additionally, all private communications are closely monitored.