John Brooks Recovery Center

John Brooks Recovery Center is a substance use disorder treatment center that has been offering a continuum of care for the past 50 years. The rehab makes no discrimination based on its clients’ financial position or socioeconomic background. It provides them with the same level of care and support in the best possible way. The treatment facility believes hope to be the primary key to a successful recovery journey and trains its team members to instill high hopes and motivation in each client. Providing different levels of care, programs at John Brooks Rehab use individualized treatment based on integrated care for everyone in need. The New Jersey treatment center understands recovery as a lifelong process and strives to meet individuals wherever they are in their recovery journey to guide them toward healing.

Treatment Programs at John Books Recovery Center

John Brooks Recovery Center Atlantic City offers the following types of treatment programs to its clients depending on their needs:

Residential Programs

These treatment programs require individuals to stay onsite under professional supervision until they are fit enough to return home. The facility offers these programs from its newly built state-of-the-art building that includes 46 short-term beds for people requiring shorter stays and 46 long-term beds for people with more severe addictions. Additionally, there are 26 beds reserved for people who need a detox onsite before committing to a rehabilitative program.

All John Brook Recovery Center programs are based on evidence-based research and are clinically driven. On average, these programs run for three to six months but may vary depending on client needs. Following are some components of a typical residential addiction treatment program at the rehab:

• Individual counseling
• Psychoeducation classes
• Family therapy
• Group counseling
• Psychiatric services
• Recreational amenities
• Medication-assisted treatment
• Educational services
• Medical services

Outpatient Programs

At John Brooks, clients can engage in the following two types of outpatient programs:

• Traditional outpatient programs combine group, individual, and family therapy and counseling services to help clients achieve their recovery goals more conveniently.
• Intensive outpatient programs: These programs are more intensive than the standard outpatient services and include individual and group counseling with educational sessions to meet each client’s personalized needs. Each session runs up to three hours and may consist of didactic classroom sessions and one-to-one and group therapy.

Medication Assisted Treatment

Medication-assisted treatment constitutes a long-term approach to recovery that requires participants to join weekly sessions along with controlled medication use. As the participants become more stable and progress toward their recovery goals, the frequency of medication use and therapy decreases based on assessments by the clinical and medical teams.

Inmate Re‑entry Program

The Inmate Re-entry Program at John Brooks Recovery Center collaborates with the Atlantic County Justice Facility. As a part of this program, jail inmates receive on-site medication-assisted treatment and appropriate counseling. Upon release, these inmates continue this treatment and can get health insurance, case management, and housing assistance. This program aims to help people navigate their next steps as soon as they get out of jail and continue receiving all services they received. In this way, the rehab provides refuge to returning citizens and gives them a chance to start afresh with a happy, healthy life.

All Roads Recovery Program

Started in 2019, the All Roads Recovery Program is a community-based service John Brooks Recovery Rehab provides. This program aims to help all with substance use disorder understand the next steps as they embark on their recovery path outside of rehab. The experts supervising this program realize everyone has a different story and road to recovery. Hence, they use the MAP (mastery, autonomy, and purpose) approach to help them navigate their next steps.

Using the continuum of care mode of John Brooks Rehab, the All Roads Recovery Program arranges various groups to cater to the broader needs of every person that walks through its doors. In addition to the conventional support groups and coaching services, it also focuses on entertainment and extracurricular activities by organizing social events. The services available as a part of the All Roads Recovery program also blend with their Inmate Re-entry Program to help people who have just exited jail set up their future lives in the best possible way.  

The following are the main components of All Roads Recovery at John Brooks Treatment Center:

• Recovery groups: These groups cater to the needs of people in the broader setting while focusing on their struggles and matters.
• Recovery coaching: Recovery coaching involves certified peer recovery specialists or CPRS who walk alongside every client and guide them about their next steps on the recovery journey.
• Social events: All Roads Recovery understands that fun is a part of life. Hence, it frequently organizes significant events, such as Christmas parties, Thanksgiving get-togethers, karaoke nights, summer beach days, etc., that everyone in recovery can participate in and enjoy with other people. These events also instill a sense of community in the recovering individuals and connect them with people with similar issues to ease their recovery.

Gambling Treatment Program

John Brooks Recovery Center has recently started a gambling treatment program to help people addicted to gambling to the extent that it damages their daily lives. To qualify, all people who join this program must have an underlying substance use disorder. The gambling addiction program receives funding from the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS). John Brooks is one of the only ten institutes worldwide to receive this funding and the only one in Atlantic City to offer this service. Following are some of the components included in the gambling addiction treatment program:

• One-to-one private counseling sessions
• Group counseling
• Psychoeducational sessions

Primary Care Programs

John Brooks Rehab has recently started a primary care program using a five-year grant from the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS). This initiative falls under a project overseen by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA). Starting in January 2021, the primary care program will run at the Black Horse Pike branch of the rehab.

This primary care program at John Brooks aims to combine primary healthcare with its opioid treatment program. The program greatly emphasizes the treatment of Hepatitis C and HIV to help addicts who otherwise face multiple barriers in getting an appointment and treatment for these issues. John Brooks strives to remove all these barriers and provide necessary care and treatment as conveniently as possible. These efforts also align with the rehab’s core mission of delivering evidence-based medicine of the highest quality to people so they can effectively overcome their addictions regardless of their financial circumstances.

Admission into a primary care program is appointment-based, and interested individuals can book a slot by calling on the rehab’s official phone number. They must bring a photo ID and something that proves that they are a resident of New Jersey to enroll in this program. Remember that to enroll in a primary care program at John Brooks Recovery Center, each patient must undergo a complete physical exam and blood work followed by a comprehensive interview conducted by an admissions staff member. This interview may take a few hours; hence, the rehab advises not to bring young children along.

FAQs

What are the timings for medication-assisted programs at John Brooks New Jersey treatment center?

To participate in the medication-assisted program at John Brooks, interested individuals can book an appointment from Monday to Thursday from 7:30 am to 11:30 am. Those visiting the rehab during this window can receive the medication on the same day.

When should I book an appointment for an intensive outpatient program at John Brooks?

Call the rehab between 7:30 am to 1:00 pm, Monday to Friday, to book a slot for its intensive outpatient program or traditional outpatient session without medication-assisted treatment.