The Other Side Academy is based on the methodology developed over the last 40 years known as the Therapeutic Community Model. The model is heavily based on extensive study and learning from The Delancey Street Foundation, based in San Francisco and 4 other locations in the U.S. as well as other successful therapeutic communities.
Many individuals admitted to The Other Side Academy have a history of destructive and toxic lifestyles which have eroded social efficacy, education/vocational skills, positive community and family ties. For them, integration back into society involves relearning or re-establishing healthy functioning, skills and values as well as regaining physical and emotional health.
Other students have never acquired functional lifestyles. For these people, the Academy could be their first exposure to orderly living. Recovery for them will involve learning the behavioral skills, attitudes and values associated with socialized living.
Rather than hire professional therapeutic staff, we have hired ex-convicts and ex-addicts who graduated from therapeutic communities to train our students, manage the facility and help run our vocational training schools.
The Other Side Academy adheres to the holistic principles of the therapeutic community that encourages individuals to take part in their treatment process as full partners, not as objects or patients.
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