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NOVA Therapeutic Community is committed to providing quality behavioral health care for children, adolescents and adults whose lives have been adversely affected by family turmoil, substance abuse, and other psychosocial problems that endanger normal growth and healthy functioning. Towards this end, NOVA endorses and is dedicated to the dual principles of self-help and social competence as the primary means by which to achieve sustainable sobriety and a responsible, productive way of life. Lastly, NOVA is steadfastly committed to providing family-based sanctuary, safety, comfort and protection for children and adolescents who cannot care for or effectively protect themselves from exploitation, temptation or injury.
Accreditation
CARF International is a private, non profit organization,
whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services
through an accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the
person's served.
Since 1999
NOVA's accredited by CARF for the following programs:
Alcohol and Other Drugs/Addictions Programs
Therapeutic Communities
Children and Adolescents
Therapeutic Communities
Adults
Outpatient
Children and Adolescents
Community Services
Foster Family Services
NOVA, an acronym that stands for New Options, Values and Achievements, is a non-profit organization that incorporated in 1984; utilizing the Therapeutic Community (TC) treatment model.
The primary goal of a Therapeutic Community is to foster personal growth. This is accomplished by changing an individual's lifestyle through a community of concerned people working together to help themselves and each other.
For over 20 years, NOVA has provided behavioral health services for adolescents and adults with mental health and substance abuse/dependence problems as well as out of home foster care placement for infants and children in danger of neglect/abuse or who are uncontrollable in the home.
The Therapeutic Community represents a highly structured environment with defined boundaries, both moral and ethical. It employs community-imposed sanctions and penalties as well as earned advancement of status and privileges as part of the recovery and growth process. Being part of something greater than oneself is an especially important factor in facilitating positive growth.
People in a Therapeutic Community are members, as in any family setting, not patients, as in an institution. These members play a significant role in managing the TC and acting as positive role models for others to emulate.
Members and staff act as facilitators, emphasizing personal responsibility for one's own life and for self-improvement. The members are supported by staff and there is a sharing of meaningful labor so that there is a true investment in the community, sometimes for the purpose of survival.
Peer pressure is often the catalyst that converts criticism and personal insight into positive change. High expectations and high commitment from both adolescents, adults and staff support this positive change. Insight into one's problems is gained through group and individual interaction, but learning through experience, failing and succeeding and experiencing the consequences, is considered to be the most potent influence toward achieving lasting change.
The TC emphasizes the integration of an individual within this community, and progress is measured within the context of that community against the community's expectations. It is this community, along with the individual, that accomplishes the process of positive change. The tension created between the individual and this community eventually resolves in favor of the individual, and this transaction is taken as an important measure of readiness to move toward integration into the larger society.
NOVA's Foster Care programs provide shelter and safety to infants and children who are victims of abuse/neglect or who have become unmanageable in the home. Trained foster parents with the assistance of staff, Foster Care Specialist, assist the youth/family to achieve reunification or a permanent healthy placement.
Most programs offer individual, group, and family therapy based on a family centered model and provide services that are developmentally appropriate and culturally competent.
We the members of the NOVA Therapeutic Community believe; that people are ok and inherently beautiful. That pathological behavior including chemical dependency, obesity, psychosis, neurosis, and character disorder is developed as a survival adaptation in response to unhealthy and often times crazy environments. That our pathological behavior is a result of a life script self written and one that can be rewritten if we so chose. That some of the beliefs we have about the world ourselves and others are based on distorted perceptions lack of information or mis-information.
That all people have an inherent drive to wellness. That we can make a choice to learn to become free autonomous individuals if we so choose. That we can make a choice to become winners instead of losers. That we can take charge of our feelings. That all people with sufficiently functioning brain tissues can take care and think for themselves. That sympathy kills. There is no such thing as magic. Change takes work and growth means being uncomfortable. That we can refuse to play the roles of persecutor, patsy or victim. That we can choose to be responsible and caring today. That it is ok to feel, to think, to be different, to grow, to have fun, to make mistakes and learn from them and to clean up our messes. That we need to develop a get on with OK attitude.
We Resolve...
To be responsible now.
To care for and confront one another.
To live fully today.
To learn from the past.
And to plan realistically for the future
We further resolve...
To begin a life long journey.
Developing healthy thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviors to WIN.
3483 Larimore Ave
402-455-7050
402-455-8303
Executive Director: Eleanor Devlin
Clinical Director: Suzanne Nord
Information for Adult Services contact Kimberly Smith at 402-455-8347 or ksmith@novatc.org
Information for Adolescent Services
contact Teresa Bunjer at 402-455-8303 x131 or
tbunjer@novatc.org
Corporate Compliance Officer/Quality Improvement
Director
contact Cathy Manahl at 402-455-8303 x151
cmanahl@novatc.org
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