Family First Intervention
As the President and Founder of Family First Intervention, Inc. Michael Loverde, BAC has dedicated his life to educating families on how to handle their loved one and their loved ones addiction. Did you know that 90% of substance abusers accept help at an intervention and go onto treatment. I started Family First Intervention because intervention is what saved my life and helped me get to the right treatment center. Having worked with several treatment centers and with other intervention groups, we understand the importance of helping the family and their loved one first when others did not. Many interventionist practicing in the field today have little experience, operate independently without a team or staff, have no accreditation's and carry no professional liability insurance. In addition, many other intervention groups try to get by with just talking the addict or alcoholic into treatment without helping prepare the family. This practice may get your loved one into treatment, however it is not the best way to make them stay in treatment and remain sober. The other concern we have and needed to change was the treatment center choices for addicts and alcoholic needing help. Many intervention groups work with certain treatment centers exclusively and send your loved one to that particular center whether or not it is the best fit. Although we refer to different treatment centers, Family First Intervention works for the family, not the treatment center. We do the best we can to get your loved one to the appropriate treatment center based on their addiction, problems and needs. The purpose of Family First Intervention is to bring the family together, deliver the best intervention solution for your family and loved one and bring you loved one to the appropriate treatment center that will actually help them.
Why Family First Intervention Works
When we first started doing interventions we thought that families would be knocking down our doors for our intervention services. We thought everyone that inquired about intervention was going to be ready to go through with change. Even though we receive hundreds of calls a month the reality is, it is actually easier to talk an addict or alcoholic into treatment than it is to get the family to allow us to do the intervention and take their loved one to treatment. It is thought by many that intervention is just about talking the addict or alcoholic into treatment. A family affected by addiction has most likely become an unhealthy family system that the addict or alcoholic has created. This unhealthy family system is comprised of many different roles all working against each other making the reality of the addict or alcoholic getting better non existent. To change the mind of an addict or alcoholic requires us to change the mindset of all of the family members and redefining their roles. The unhealthy family system working against each other created by the addict has to be repaired. The most common question asked is "what if the intervention doesn't work?" My response usually is "what if we do nothing at all? My point is we have to exhaust all options so that the family knows that they did everything in their power to stop the addiction with their loved one. Doing nothing at all is an extreme form of enabling and usually leaves the family asking themselves, is there something else we could have done Family First Intervention knows it is hard for the family to change, however if a change does not happen, the substance abuser is likely to take the family down to the bottom with them.
Why Family First Intervention
Family First Intervention makes it a point to pair up our intervention counselors based on the family and substance abuser we will be working with.A 30 year old intervention counselor specializing in meth addiction may not be the best fit for say a 57 year old alcoholic with no history of hard drug use. Just like a treatment center has to be different for every client so does our intervention counselors. Family First Intervention has interventionist from all different backgrounds and age groups making it easier to assign the appropriate counselor to meet the families needs. Our entire staff on some level has felt first hand what addiction does to either themselves our how it directly effects a family member. Family First Intervention was created to set a higher standard for intervention process and procedure and to ensure that every intervention performed gives the family and their loved one the best possible opportunity for a successful outcome.
