Licensed Care Drug Treatment Program
The Minnesota Teen Challenge Licensed Program is a Rule 31 Substance Abuse Residential Treatment Program. Length of stay is based on client need. A typical stay ranges from 30-90 days.
Inpatient Residential Care
Programming is provided in a structured therapeutic community offering continuous observation, monitoring and treatment by professional multidisciplinary staff. The MnTC Licensed Program provides thirty hours of treatment services per week based on best practices in the substance abuse field:
- Strong cognitive behavioral approach to help clients identify and replace life-diminishing core beliefs
- 12 Step education and application in regards to Alcohol Or Drug (AOD) problems and as a life development model
- Motivational enhancement to help clients strengthen their motivation for change
- Strengths-based relationship focus
Included in programming is life-skills training on relationships, communication, anger management, and creative problem solving. We work with giftedness testing and education/career planning. We provide ongoing monitoring of mental health and chemical health issues, and case management for next step treatment work and accessing a community support system.
Outpatient
Treatment services are provided to clients who have completed the residential program and discharged to their home community or the twelve month MnTC Life Care recovery community but can still benefit from ongoing assessment, treatment planning, education, individual, group and family therapy to cope with problems without the use of mood altering substances.
