Amethyst Place Inc

Family Empowerment - This program helps families overcome generational poverty through comprehensive support that addresses their educational, vocational, financial, and wellness goals. Our Family Empowerment Program leverages the power of peer support and lived experience through the work of three staff who are previous graduates of Amethyst Place. All provide individual recovery coaching fused with their specialty areas and coordinate weekly Empowerment programming focused on recovery, mental health, and life skills. A new addition to the Family Empowerment Program is the Youth Empowerment Program (YEP!), which has allowed us to establish youth and adult tracks to empowerment. Youth Empowerment staff provide case management and support, including regular check-ins, coordination with schools, connections to extracurricular activities, and other services to support their well-being, resilience, and growth. They also deliver weekly group programming for campus youth.

Therapeutic Support - Families have access to on-site therapeutic services provided by our therapeutic team. Most adult residents have a substance use disorder with co-occurring depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD. Additionally, children often arrive with a host of emotional issues that are a result of separation from their parents and experiencing the chaos of parental substance use, making the need for family therapy essential to improving family functioning and relationships. Each family develops an individualized care plan in concert with the Clinical team. Amethyst Place uses a variety of evidence-based therapies and practices to help families better manage their mental health and heal from trauma in individual, family, and group modalities.