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Pathways Boys Program
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Looking Glass Pathways Boys Program provides residential and continuing care drug and alcohol treatment services for juvenile offenders, ages 12 to 18. Most residents stay an average of six months before graduating and returning home or to other community living. Success is measured by the percentage of graduates who remain free of new criminal offenses one year after completing residential treatment. Since Pathways began in 1990, its success rate has averaged better than 85 percent annually.

Components of the Pathways Boys Program include:

Residential Treatment
The program combines therapy with 24-hour supervised group living. Residents learn new skills and behaviors, and as they increase their responsibility they are rewarded with privileges appropriate to the recovery process. Youth work with counselors to create individualized treatment plans to determine their goals and the activities to achieve them.

Peer Group Skills
Youth participate in frequent peer group counseling sessions to review their treatment progress and to work toward accomplishing their goals. They learn “helping” methods that encourage positive relationships with each other both in and out of group meetings. By learning to care for others, they youth learn to care for themselves.

Substance Abuse Treatment
Pathways uses the 12-step model as a basis for substance abuse recovery, and youth attend Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous meetings at the facility and in the community. Residents work on individual assignments and participate in group sessions focusing on chemical dependency. In all program phases, the youth are monitored for drug use with urinalysis testing.

Corrections Issues
Criminogenic thinking and behaviors are addressed through role playing, group exercises, and written assignments. Youth learn to think critically about situations and practice new behaviors.

Academic Instruction/Alcohol & Drug Education
The state-certified, on-site school provides lessons in language arts, math, health education, home economics, social studies, and physical education. Some residents prepare for GED tests while others earn credit toward high school diplomas. Residents also receive intensive classroom instruction about the effect of drugs and alcohol, and they earn high school credit for this course.

Family Counseling
A resident's family is integral to successful treatment. A family therapist meets regularly with youth and their families to help them make changes that will improve their family relationships. Residents' parents meet together weekly in family groups to provide support and learn about the recovery process. Home visits are regularly scheduled so that families can practice new behaviors and parenting skills.

Recreation
Residents participate in a variety of recreation experiences such as weight lifting, swimming, bowling, camping, hiking and field trips. These activities allow youth to improve trust, team work, and problem solving skills. These activities also demonstrate healthy ways to have fun while being clean and sober.

Continuing Care                                                                                                           After graduating from the program, youth participate in 12 months of continuing care to help them maintain their recovery. Graduates are helped as they return to family, school, job, home, and other pressures of everyday life. Continuing care includes individual counseling, a weekly peer support group and recreational activities.

Referrals/Admission:
All referrals to Pathways must come from the Lane County juvenile justice system. Clients must be 12 to 18 years old and county residents. Interested youth or parents should contact the youth's counselor from the Department of Youth Services or the Oregon Youth Authority.

Staff:
Pathways staff are experienced professionals with expertise in both corrections and substance abuse treatment. The clinical supervisor, education supervisor and family therapist hold master's degrees. Most treatment staff have bachelor's degrees and/or are Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors.

Location:
Pathways is located at the John Serbu Juvenile Justice Center at 2655 Martin Luther King Blvd. Eugene OR 97401.

Funding:
Pathways is funded by the Lane County Department of Youth Services and Eugene School District 4J.

For More Information:
Please call (541) 682-7979, Monday thru Friday, 9am. to 5pm. TDD - (541) 689-6944.

This program is funded in part of the USDA and the state of Oregon , which are equal opportunity providers and employers.