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A New Freedom offers comprehensive, flexible, and cost-effective substance abuse curricula and behavioral health treatment resources for adult and juvenile correctional programs.

We provide over 700 mental health, substance abuse treatment, correctional intervention, and MI and CBT-based resources to over 2,500 correctional facilities and programs nationwide. These innovative, state-of-the-art materials provide quality programming at a very reasonable cost.  You get the rights to make unlimited copies for use on each licensed site, with a site license that never expires.

Our resources address critical personal, environmental, and community risk factors, and build on key protective factors and assets.  All our resources are solidly based on evidence-based strategies that are absolutely top tier, and have been proven effective in countless studies featuring rigorous experimental designs:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Skill-Building for conflict resolution and violence prevention
• Social Learning Model: behavior rehearsal, role-playing
• Stages of change model (Prochaska, DiClemente, Freeman, Nolan)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)

We invite you to review the program overviews and sample materials on this site.  We can provide you with price quotes, custom program models, and  any assistance you need in choosing the right materials for your programs.

• Pre-Release Preparation and Community Integration — These programs– specifically designed for corrections and jails– are designed to prepare participants about to leave residential and correctional for successful release and community reintegration

• Probation/Parole Programs — adult and juvenile resources support community programming as alternatives to incarceration, or post-release supervision and aftercare.

• Drug Court/Diversion/Community Resources — programs for adults and juveniles. Comprehensive options address substance abuse, gang involvement, delinquency, risk and protective factors, criminal thinking, and aggression/violence. Models support intensive supervision and address specific issues.

• Substance Abuse Treatment — comprehensive substance abuse treatment program materials based on cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and motivational interviewing (MI) models: adult/juvenile, open/closed group, 1:1, short-stay, drug court, community, residential, stages-of-change-based, male/female, and Spanish language.

• Female Gender Specific Resources — core programs, trauma-informed issue-specific overlays, substance abuse, behavioral health, and women's pathways to offending and desistence.

• Juvenile Facility Resources — short-stay detention and long-term residential models from 12-400 hours, including multiple state-wide implementations.

• Returning Home Resources — extensive program resources for pre-release, transition, community reintegration, life skills, vocational readiness. Workbooks and lessons provide more than 140 hours of program options.

• Anger/Aggression/Violence materials — resources address anger management, aggression, and violence issues for correctional and community programs.

• Mental Health/Behavioral Health and Dual Diagnosis — comprehensive treatment planning and support resources include counselor's tools, DSM checklist, client and counselor worksheets, MI elements, and workbooks. Address more than 20 issues, including anxiety, depression, aggression, PTSD, self-injury, sleep disorders, and new elements for seriously mentally ill populations, including psychotic spectrum and mood disorders.

• Spanish Language Resources — Spanish language substance abuse treatment and other program resources. Una Libertad Nueva includes comprehensive programs for adults and juveniles, including over 60 workbooks (available in both English and Spanish versions). Also appropriate for ad seg populations.

• Life Skills — Resources for improving life skills. Pathways to Daily Living and Interpersonal Communications Skills options include more than 100 one-hour lessons, with detailed lesson plans, client worksheets, and skill-building activities. Supplemented by Problem Solving program resources and our Vocational Readiness/Employment Preparation program.

• In-Cell/Self-Study Programs — extensive workbook-based cognitive change and criminal thinking resources for administrative segregation or self-study. Different models provided to hundreds of facilities nationwide. Additional resources support the transition or step-down from ad seg to general population.

• Resources for Jails — a full range of programming to fit the specific needs of jails, from Substance Abuse to Mental Health to special programming for Administrative Segregation to Transition. Everything is delivered in a carefully structured approach that helps ensure successful treatment that you can document.

• Design a Custom Curriculum — let us help you design a curriculum or contact us about a phone consultation.