About
VISION
A JUST AND EQUAL SOCIETY composed of families that nurture their members to become human beings with fully developed potentials - aware of their needs, accepting of their boundaries, duties and responsibilities, leading meaningful and God-centered lives, free of substance and non-substance dependencies, exercising their freedom of choice and interacting with one another based on universal values and principles.
MISSION
• Treatment and Rehabilitation of substance dependents and other dysfunctional individuals through a center utilizing the Therapeutic Community approach.
• Education and advocacy through activities that will heighten public awareness and knowledge about the causes, manifestations, and effects of substance and non-substance dependencies.
• Role-modeling of personal sobriety through the individual and collective conduct of residents and staff.
• Inspiration of a nurturing family environment that inculcates a value-based and principle-centered lifestyle.
In 2002, SELF set out a 10 year plan to become…
A World Class Gender Sensitive Center for Healing that Embodies the Ideals
of the Modern Therapeutic Community and the Doctrines of Continuing Care.
ORGANIZATIONAL CORE VALUES
The SELF approach is anchored on two major belief systems:
1. We believe in the goodness of mankind—that every man and woman is created under the image and likeness of God. Throughout the behavior modification process, we may detest the “attitude” but never the person.
2. We believe that in mankind’s journey of growth, each person will eventually reintegrate:
With ONE’S SELF… then with OTHERS… then with GOD
SELF operates a developmental learning environment that is “STRICT YET CARING”.
• Strict but not abusive
• Caring yet not enabling
All rules, policies, practices and traditions must pass a Three-Way Test and conform to being:
1. Respectful
2. Logical
3. Practical
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