Learning Your Role in Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Treatment

The family program is a five-day intensive experience that offers your family an opportunity to learn about drug addiction and alcoholism treatment and the family's role in recovery. This experience also offers all of you an opportunity to share your feelings and experiences. At Willingway we believe that addiction is a devastating family disease, requiring treatment for the whole family. 

Legally married couples will be allowed to 'room in' at Willingway if they so desire.  Occasionally, a same-sex parent shares a loved one's room if desired (mother with daughter; father with son). Usually, extended family members (unmarried partners, parents of a married patient, children, or adult siblings) will stay in a local hotel during the family program.

While you are here, we ask that you participate in all aspects of the program, including eating all meals at Willingway, starting with breakfast at 8:00 a.m., and attend meditation, meetings, and activities throughout the day. You will participate in twelve-step meetings, lectures, recreational therapy, and various types of group meetings. Additionally, your loved one's counselor will meet with you and your family member in recovery at least once during your visit. If the need arises, you may request a meeting with a counselor of the same sex while you are here.

It is our goal to provide you and your loved one with the knowledge, skills and contacts to become allies in maintaining long-term sobriety once you leave our daily care. 

We are glad to welcome family members and loved ones to Willingway. We can promise if you are honest, open-minded, and willing participants in our program, your family will leave Willingway with the tools to be able to maintain a sober and productive life.

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What to Expect

When a loved one enters Willingway's drug addiction and alcoholism treatment center, recovery begins with hard work to learn about addiction and how it has affected life.  You should expect to see some changes in behaviors, attitudes and feelings.  You will also see close bonds that have developed between patients and a desire to help each other work on recovery issues.  This is part of what is unique about the caring, family recovery atmosphere Willingway.