18 Summit Street Framingham, MA 01702 |
[P] (508) 872-6194 x 103 [F] (508) 302-0090 |
www.thebridgehouse.org [email protected] Tim Pritchard |
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INCORPORATED: 1985
Printable Profile (Summary / Full) EIN 22-2581896 |
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Organization DBA |
The Bridge House |
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Former Names | -- |
Organization received a competitive grant from the Boston Foundation in the past five years | No |
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Mission StatementMORE »The mission of The Bridge House is to support whole life recovery for those suffering from addiction. |
Mission StatementThe mission of The Bridge House is to support whole life recovery for those suffering from addiction. |
Fiscal Year | July 01, 2018 to June 30, 2019 |
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Projected Income | $1,385,800.00 |
Projected Expense | $1,324,725.00 |
For more details regarding the organization's financial information, select the financial tab and review available comments.
The mission of The Bridge House is to support whole life recovery for those suffering from addiction.
On December 18, 1984, New England Aftercare Ministries (NEAM, Inc.) was incorporated under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Articles of Organization, General Laws, Chapter 180 as a 501c3: “To alleviate human suffering and distress; to better and improve mankind; to establish a center or centers for social service; to assist prisoners in re-establishing themselves in society; and to acquire personal and real property for the application thereof to the foregoing purposes.” In 1987, Bridge House was opened as a prison reentry halfway house with the purchase of 18 Summit St. Framingham, MA.
A decade later, in 1997, NEAM signed a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to become a licensed recovery home under the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS). Under this new license, The Bridge House became what it is today: A residential treatment facility for men suffering from substance abuse (which may still involve reentry from jail as well as TSS/CSS referrals). That same year (1997), NEAM purchased the adjoining 20 Summit St. house and now operates the two homes, providing 33 men with substance abuse problems at a time, age 18 and over, with whole life recovery support in a residential setting.
Over this past year, The Bridge House has provided individualized residential treatment services to 100 residents through a critical time in their addiction recovery journey. The whole life recovery process involves more than direct addiction counseling care. Services include screening, intake, orientation, assessment, treatment planning, counseling (individual, group, and family), case management, crisis intervention, client education, referral, consultation, and record keeping, education of residents on community resources available to meet their needs including medical and psychological services, job training and high school equivalency schooling.
The Bridge House has expanded its counseling staff and actively supported licensing educational needs. The Bridge House’s lead supervising counselor is LADC-I (Licensed Addiction Alcohol and Drug Counselor I, the highest level of licensed addiction counseling in Massachusetts). There are four LADC-II (Licensed Addiction Alcohol and Drug Counselor II) and several others working toward LADC-II licensure.
Weekly evaluations of the program have led to the addition of more therapeutic groups, assessment-based response to relapse recovery and NARCAN training for both staff and residents, as well as aftercare counseling for graduates to ease their transition into the community.
Our most pressing needs are capital improvements. Serving 33 men "residentially" takes its toll on our two properties.
STATEWIDE
GREATER BOSTON REGION, MA
As a Commonwealth of Massachusetts-licensed Recovery Home, The Bridge House serves a statewide population. Current statistics show the program serves 25% from the greater Boston Region, 30% from Metrowest, 30% from Worcester/Central Mass Region and 15% from remaining Massachusetts locations (with a 5% plus/minus variable). Town by town breakdowns are available.
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The Bridge House program provides a structured, sober environment for individuals recovering from addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs. The Bridge House program emphasizes recovery and treatment within a therapeutic setting. Residents are encouraged to integrate with the community and to access community resources, including self-help groups and employment. Each treatment program is individualized and guided by each man's own recovery objectives laid out in regularly updated treatment plans. The Bridge House provides weekly, individual counseling to help the residents meet their recovery objectives and treatment plan goals. Additionally, The Bridge House provides daily group sessions where residents share challenges and explore new recovery tools together. |
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Budget | $936,150.00 |
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Category | Mental Health, Substance Abuse Programs, General/other Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment |
Population Served | Males Adults At-Risk Populations |
Program Short-Term Success |
Outcomes are measured on a multi-pointed, progressive path. During treatment, The Bridge House counsels its clients individually in forward-measured and area-specific progress while accommodating area-specific recovery setbacks. Upon program completion, long-term success is measured through post-discharge follow-up surveys and participation in our aftercare activities and counseling. A growing number of graduates stay in the local area and remain active in alumni groups -- so we witness the living success of some graduates on a weekly (even nightly basis) with graduates visiting at dinner and other times..
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Program Long-Term Success |
The Bridge House’s ultimate goal is for the men served to achieve the health and wellness benefits of complete abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse. That said, outcome measurements are nuanced to reflect improvements that occur during treatment even when complete abstinence is not achieved. For the most part, The Bridge House’s population enters treatment as homeless, jobless, with broken social and family relationships, interrupted education, mental illness, physical health problems, and criminal justice system involvement. Each of these problems, along with the movement from drug and alcohol abuse to living in sobriety, become points of outcome measurement, including: sobriety; high school equivalency; healthy social network of support; attended health; mental health issues identified and managed; paying back and keeping child support current; and resolved court cases and completed probation.
Overall program success is measured by beds occupied and days served per the Massachusetts ESM state enrollment and disenrollment statistics, and by surveys done by the state-run Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS), by program surveys and interviews, and by counselor notes. THIS PAST YEAR THE BRIDGE HOUSE RATED IN THE TOP 3 Statewide.
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Program Success Monitored By | As a licensed recovery home, The Bridge House maintains data collected on all enrollments and completions in the state’s Enterprise Service Management (ESM) software system. This software supports The Bridge House maintaining its client roster, program enrollments, service plans, case management plans, and encounter documentation. It also provides comparison of data against other programs sorted by a range of demographic data points, including utilization trends, living status, enrollment and disenrollment reasons, referrals, employment detail, and other state services. While individual client information is confidential, top line ESM data provides visibility into progress towards The Bridge House’s overall treatment goals. The Bridge House also conducts its own research using anonymous resident surveys related to client satisfaction that are conducted during the treatment process and individual phone follow-up surveys post treatment. |
Examples of Program Success | Over this past year, The Bridge House has provided individualized residential treatment services to approximately 100 residents through a critical time in their addiction recovery journey. The whole life recovery process involves more than direct addiction counseling care. Services include screening, intake, orientation, assessment, treatment planning, counseling (individual, group, and family), case management, crisis intervention, client education, referral, consultation, and record keeping, education of residents on community resources available to meet their needs including medical and psychological services, job training and high school equivalency schooling. Weekly evaluations of the program have led to the addition of more therapeutic groups, assessment-based response to relapse recovery and NARCAN training for both staff and residents, as well as aftercare counseling for graduates to ease their transition into the community. |
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CEO/Executive Director | Mr. David Lang |
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CEO Term Start | Sept 2011 |
CEO Email | [email protected] |
CEO Experience |
Starting out after college in 1979 as an Assembly of God minister, working store front churches across the Midwest as well as ministry work in Maine, Dave learned to manage facilities alongside of his ministry duties. He joined New England Aftercare in 2003 as house manager. After attending college for accounting he became Operations Manager until 2011 when Dave was promoted to Executive Director. In 2011 the ministry was operating at a loss and the program was in disarray. Under Dave's leadership in just 4 years the program has emerged from near closure to become a financially healthy recovery home program and in "substantial compliance" under our Massachusetts Dept. of Health Bureau of Substance Abuse license. Education One year at University of Maryland – College Park, Maryland, 1976 Ministerial Diploma, Trinity Bible Institute, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1977-79 Phase two of Biblical Counseling Foundation 2003-08 36 credits of Accounting, Ashcroft University 2003-05 Management Courses with Fred Pryor (How to Manage People; Employee Engagement: Managing for Engagement; The Complete Manager’s Course; Dealing with Difficult People; Leadership, Team Building, and Coaching Skills; Managing Multiple Priorities, Projects, Deadlines. Human Resources for Anyone with Newly Assigned HR Responsibilities; The Essentials of HR Law; Comprehensive Training for HR Managers; OSHA Compliance; How to Communicate with Tact and Professionalism). |
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Co-CEO Term Start | -- |
Co-CEO Email | -- |
Co-CEO Experience | -- |
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Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA) | -- |
Member of state association of nonprofits? | Yes |
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Name of state association | Recovery Home Collaborative |
External Assessment or Accreditation | Year |
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Number of Full Time Staff | 13 |
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Number of Part Time Staff | 2 |
Number of Volunteers | 6 |
Number of Contract Staff | 1 |
Staff Retention Rate % | 93% |
Ethnicity | African American/Black: 1 Asian American/Pacific Islander: 1 Caucasian: 9 Hispanic/Latino: 1 Native American/American Indian: 1 Other: 0 Other (if specified): -- |
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Gender | Female: 2 Male: 11 Not Specified 0 |
Organization has Fundraising Plan? | Under Development |
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Organization has Strategic Plan? | Under Development |
Years Strategic Plan Considers | N/A |
Management Succession Plan | Under Development |
Business Continuity of Operations Plan | Yes |
Organization Policies And Procedures | Under Development |
Nondiscrimination Policy | Under Development |
Whistle Blower Policy | Yes |
Document Destruction Policy | Yes |
Directors and Officers Insurance Policy | -- |
State Charitable Solicitations Permit | Yes |
State Registration | No |
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Management Reports to Board? | Yes |
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CEO Formal Evaluation and Frequency | N/A N/A |
Senior Management Formal Evaluation and Frequency | Yes Annually |
Non Management Formal Evaluation and Frequency | Yes Annually |
Board Chair | Mr. Thomas Emmons |
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Board Chair Company Affiliation | The Color Stores |
Board Chair Term | July 2015 - June 2016 |
Board Co-Chair | Reverend Faith Tolson |
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Board Co-Chair Company Affiliation | SMOC |
Board Co-Chair Term | July 2015 - July 2016 |
Name | Company Affiliations | Status |
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Mr. Mark Collett | Bank | Voting |
Mr. Thomas Emmons | The Color Stores | Voting |
Reverend James R. Spence | Retired | Voting |
Reverend Faith Tolson | Counseling, Psychology, SMOC | Voting |
Mr Dion Young | Renta-Center | Voting |
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Ethnicity | African American/Black: 40 Asian American/Pacific Islander: 0 Caucasian: 60 Hispanic/Latino: 0 Native American/American Indian: 0 Other: 0 Other (if specified): -- |
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Gender | Female: 20 Male: 80 Not Specified 0 |
Board Term Lengths | 1 |
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Board Term Limits | 0 |
Board Meeting Attendance % | 80% |
Written Board Selection Criteria | Under Development |
Written Conflict Of Interest Policy | Yes |
Percentage of Monetary Contributions | 60% |
Percentage of In-Kind Contributions | 40% |
Constituency Includes Client Representation | No |
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Fiscal Year | July 01, 2018 to June 30, 2019 |
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Projected Income | $1,385,800.00 |
Projected Expense | $1,324,725.00 |
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IRS Letter of Exemption |
Fiscal Year | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Total Revenue | $1,315,266 | $1,297,487 | $1,188,804 |
Total Expenses | $1,305,972 | $1,297,223 | $1,074,150 |
Fiscal Year | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Foundation and Corporation Contributions |
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Government Contributions | $943,595 | $990,017 | $927,272 |
Federal | -- | -- | -- |
State | -- | -- | -- |
Local | -- | -- | -- |
Unspecified | $943,595 | $990,017 | $927,272 |
Individual Contributions | $71,015 | $101,406 | $84,366 |
Indirect Public Support | -- | -- | -- |
Earned Revenue | $217,089 | $139,827 | $100,150 |
Investment Income, Net of Losses | $2,167 | $1,637 | $11,916 |
Membership Dues | -- | -- | -- |
Special Events | -- | -- | -- |
Revenue In-Kind | $81,400 | $64,600 | $65,100 |
Other | -- | -- | -- |
Fiscal Year | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Program Expense | $1,154,370 | $1,133,627 | $919,188 |
Administration Expense | $130,736 | $131,753 | $122,119 |
Fundraising Expense | $20,866 | $31,843 | $32,843 |
Payments to Affiliates | -- | -- | -- |
Total Revenue/Total Expenses | 1.01 | 1.00 | 1.11 |
Program Expense/Total Expenses | 88% | 87% | 86% |
Fundraising Expense/Contributed Revenue | 2% | 3% | 3% |
Fiscal Year | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Total Assets | $894,884 | $883,265 | $681,385 |
Current Assets | $339,534 | $437,134 | $249,315 |
Long-Term Liabilities | $378,545 | $390,757 | $161,154 |
Current Liabilities | $73,650 | $58,831 | $92,953 |
Total Net Assets | $442,689 | $433,677 | $427,278 |
Fiscal Year | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Endowment Value | $0.00 |
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Spending Policy | N/A |
Percentage(If selected) | -- |
Credit Line | Yes |
Reserve Fund | No |
How many months does reserve cover? | -- |
Are you currently in a Capital Campaign? | Anticipated In 3 Years |
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Capital Campaign Purpose | -- |
Campaign Goal | $1,000,000.00 |
Capital Campaign Dates | - |
Capital Campaign Raised-to-Date Amount | -- |
Capital Campaign Anticipated in Next 5 Years? | -- |
Fiscal Year | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Current Ratio: Current Assets/Current Liabilities | 4.61 | 7.43 | 2.68 |
Fiscal Year | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Long-term Liabilities/Total Assets | 42% | 44% | 24% |
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As a Massachusetts licensed recovery home, The Bridge House program provides a structured, sober environment for individuals recovering from addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs. The Bridge House program emphasizes recovery and treatment within a therapeutic setting. Residents are encouraged to integrate with the community and to access community resources, including self-help groups and employment.
Each treatment program is individualized and guided by each man's own recovery objectives, which are laid out in regularly updated treatment plans. The Bridge House provides weekly, individual counseling to help the residents meet their recovery objectives and treatment plan goals. Additionally, The Bridge House provides daily group sessions where residents share challenges and explore new recovery tools together.
The Bridge House also encourages its residents to utilize necessary outside resources, such as anger management groups, mental health therapy, community health assistants, educational and vocational training and VA resources. There are numerous opportunities for connection with these resources within walking distance of The Bridge House.
In order to be considered for admission into The Bridge House program, potential residents must provide documentation of at least 30 days sobriety, generally provided by drug testing at an inpatient treatment facility, TSS, CSS or other drug and alcohol treatment facility.
Applicants must submit a completed Bridge House application and resident agreement, provide bio/psych/social assessment from any current treatment facilities, and provide criminal background information if currently incarcerated.
Short-Term Outcomes
Outcomes are measured on a multi-pointed, progressive path.
· During treatment, The Bridge House counsels its clients individually and forward, for measured and area-specific progress while accommodating area-specific recovery setbacks.
· Upon program completion, long-term success is measured through post-discharge follow-up surveys.
· Since a growing number of graduates stay in the local area and remain active in alumni groups, The Bridge House is also able to witness the living success of some graduates on a weekly basis.
Long-Term Outcomes
The Bridge House’s ultimate goal is for the men served to achieve the health and wellness benefits of complete abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse. That said, outcome measurements are nuanced to reflect improvements that occur during treatment even when complete abstinence is not achieved.
For the most part, The Bridge House’s population enters treatment as homeless, jobless, with broken social and family relationships, interrupted education, mental illness, physical health problems, and criminal justice system involvement. Each of these problems, along with the movement from drug and alcohol abuse to living in sobriety, become points of outcome measurement, including:
· From substance abuse and addiction to sobriety
· From homeless to housed
· From no HS diploma to obtaining high school equivalency
· From lack of healthy social relationships to having a healthy social network of support
· From ill health to attended health with primary care support
· From untreated mental health problems to mental health issues identified and managed
· From owing back child support to paying back and keeping child support current
· From unresolved or probationary criminal justice issues to resolved court cases and completed probations
Overall program success is measured by beds occupied and days served per the ESM state enrollment and disenrollment statistics, by surveys done by the state-run Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS), by program surveys and interviews, and by counselor notes.
Counselor support is available 24/7 at The Bridge House along with weekly one-on-one individual sessions and up to 12 hours of weekly therapeutic group sessions.
The Bridge House uses licensed addiction counselors in its program so that its counselors are equipped to understand the physical, mental health, social and familial consequences of addiction and the tools necessary to facilitate client recovery. Specifically, LADC-I credentialing includes a masters or doctoral degree in behavioral sciences, a minimum of 270 hours of training related to substance abuse counseling, 300 hours of supervised practical training, 6,000 hours of supervised alcohol and drug counseling work experience and successful completion of a written examination. LADC-II training includes all but the advanced degree.
Once a clinician is licensed, he or she is required to complete 40 hours of continuing education units (CEUs) every two years – so regular trainings are provided on-site at The Bridge House to provide ready access to CEUs that will keep staff current in addiction counseling interventions that are consistent with evidence-based practices related to preferred client outcomes.
Therapies that counselors are trained in and supervised to use include motivational interviewing, a directive, client-centered style of counseling with the goal of eliciting behavior change by helping individuals explore and resolve ambivalence to change; cognitive–behavioral interventions, focused on changing internal thoughts and beliefs, as well as reactions to those beliefs, from negative into positive; community reinforcement, examining the social environment for its role in encouraging or discouraging drinking or drug use, with the goal of making a sober lifestyle more rewarding than the use of substances; relapse prevention and recovery, including behavioral contracting; and social skills training, including employment and financial counseling.
Bridge House counselors also lead therapeutic groups focused on specific areas of need such as healthy choices; refusal skills; stages of change; spirituality that is respectful of all faiths and non-faith beliefs, including such techniques such as prayer, meditation and mindfulness exercises; Christian spirituality, offered on a voluntary basis; anger management and dealing with trauma, grief, guilt and shame; relapse prevention and recovery; gambling awareness; and life management.
All counseling is under LADC-I supervision and holds to the Principles on Effective Treatment set by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Community resources in close proximity to The Bridge House include Advocates (behavioral health); Framingham District Court (probation); Framingham Public Library; One-Stop Career Center (job assistance); MBTA (transportation services); Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance; Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (education and career assessment); MetroWest and Kennedy Health Centers; Program Rise (STD/HIV Support); SMOC (high school equivalency, job training, housing, behavioral health); Social Security Administration; and Spectrum Health (opiate replacement and anger management and batterers programs).
The Bridge House partners with and coordinates specific services with local community agencies in the areas of psychiatric evaluation and pharmacological therapies; medical assisted recovery including methadone and suboxone; HIV/STD education prevention and recovery; high school equivalency completion; family services; legal aid; court agencies for probation, drug court diversion, family court, including child support; post-graduation housing needs; and 12 step meetings such as AA or NA.
The Bridge House’s core asset is its counseling team – and not every employee has a case load, but every Bridge House employee does some counseling as part of his or her job and receives training throughout the year to increase effectiveness in this.
Key employees are:
· Executive Director
· Program Director
· Clinical Supervisor
· Development Director
· House Supervisor
· 6 full time addiction counselors
· Weekend Staff
· 5 Off-Shift Supervisors
The state requires that each staff member receive one hour of in-service training each month and one hour of supervision each week. In addition, The Bridge House requires that licensed staff maintain their licensing credentials and provides an educational allocation for staff continuing education and licensure.
Using resources such as Adcare Hospital and the New England Institute of Addiction Studies, as well as other training providers approved by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Abuse under the Department of Health, The Bridge House’s staff receives more than the necessary continuing education units (CEUs) for maintaining licensures for its clinicians over two years, as the state requires.
On-site trainings cover a range of topics, including motivational interviewing, maintaining professional and clinical boundaries, CPR, NARCAN, drug overdose prevention training, HIV/STD prevention and awareness, tobacco addiction prevention and recovery, cognitive behavior therapies and diagnosis tools.
As a recovery home licensed in Massachusetts under the Bureau of Substance Abuse Service of the state’s Department of Health (DOH), The Bridge House maintains data collected on all enrollments and completions in the state’s Enterprise Service Management (ESM) software system. This software supports The Bridge House maintaining its client roster, program enrollments, service plans, case management plans, and encounter documentation. It also provides comparison of data against other programs sorted by a range of demographic data points, including utilization trends, living status, enrollment and disenrollment reasons, referrals, employment detail, and other state services.
While individual client information is confidential, top line ESM data provides visibility into progress towards The Bridge House’s overall treatment goals.
The Bridge House also conducts its own research using anonymous resident surveys related to client satisfaction that are conducted during the treatment process and individual phone follow-up surveys post treatment.
Many areas on the ESM are integrated into The Bridge House’s client treatment planning through referral. These include high school equivalency, vocational training, literacy and ESL services, medical or emotional treatment and medication support as well as TB and STD testing and treatment. Key points for The Bridge House in the ESM are the numbers of enrollments/disenrollments and bed days served, along with the other data noted above.
Weekly counselor and staff meetings provide opportunities for self-assessment and the program draws on outside level-of-care expertise for in-service trainings and to check assessments against what is seen in the field and what they shown as best practices.
In 1987, The Bridge House opened as a privately funded prison reentry ministry. When Massachusetts formed the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) in 1992, The Bridge House program also became a state licensed substance abuse recovery home. In time, however, conflicts arose between the BSAS license requirements and the prison reentry counseling components of the program, which ultimately put The Bridge House at risk of being shut down due to discrepancies with the BSAS service model.
In August 2011, the BSAS stepped in to help The Bridge House recalibrate to its guidelines and resolve related financial challenges. The Bridge House started the recalibration process with a staff of four, including new executive, development and program directors who were paid from a line of credit, with a resident count of eight.
In the years that followed, The Bridge House achieved success with compliance that surpassed level of care standards and returned the program to financial health, with support from BSAS consulting assistance and increased financial support of churches and private donors. The Bridge House also added masters-degreed counselors and trainings for staff that have contributed to its current standing as a well-respected recovery program in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.