1. REFERRAL

2. ASSESSMENT - Screen for appropriateness and set up trust between client and interventionist.

3. EDUCATION - Combination of videos, visual charts, questions and answers.

4. PREPARE AND PRACTICE - Write scripts and role play.

5. DRESS REHEARSAL - Review and discuss last minute details

6. INTERVENTION

7. AFTER INTERVENTION - Work with family and treatment center for a 3 month period following the intervention.

Pat now offers The Johnson/ modified Storti model and invitational interventions. Ask her about each of these and which would fit best for you.

Intervention is more than an event, or a single confrontation with the chemically dependant person. Intervention is a process that begins a life long journey to recovery for both the chemically dependant person and the people who care about him/her.

Sometimes you feel angry and are not sure that you can go on much longer.

Sometimes you feel guilty and are sure that you are over-reacting.

Sometimes you feel ashamed even to think about what has been happening, much less talk about it to someone else.

Sometimes you feel helpless.

However...

You know you cannot let the person you care about go on destroying their life.