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Welcome to Reality Counseling Services |
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Written by Web Master
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Saturday, 12 June 2004 |
Reality Counseling Services has
been providing quality outpatient substance abuse services in mid and
west Michigan since 1994. Our mission from the beginning has been to
deliver quality outpatient prevention, education and treatment services
to individuals with substance abuse issues who have come in contact
with the legal system. We began in Lansing in February 1994, and have
grown consistantly over the past fourteen years. We have been in Grand
Rapids / Wyoming for over ten years, and also have locations in
Rockford and Holland. Holland is gone now.
Our belief was that
court-mandated clients represented the largest interface between
substance abusers and thier oppurtunity for healthy change. We further
believed that this population was under-served due to the adversarial
relationship that existed between the traditional counseling culture
and court systems. While both entities sought to improve the lives of
substance abusers / offenders, and reduce recidivism, the advantages
generated by collaboration were not
being effectively deployed. We believed that directly confronting
denial, holding clients accountable, and utilizing the advantages
gained through the behavioral compliance provided by the court system
offered a unique oppurtunity for the client, as well as the counseling
community and the courts.
Over the past decade
and a half we have been honored to be a part of the strengthening
relationship between the counseling community and the courts, and
have been priviledged to be involved in significant advancements in our profession such as the rise of Drug Treatment Courts and Sobriety Courts
We believe more strongly than ever that collaboration between
the counseling community and the court systems is producing
unprecedented results for our clients, our profession, the courts, and
the communities we serve.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 November 2007 )
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