The Evidence-Based Recovery Foundation is a recovery monitoring/coaching and advocacy service. Our program is designed to provide for our clients the greatest opportunity to get into long-term, stabile recovery through increased structure and accountability. Our program consists of developing a Recovery Agreement with our clients which will hold them accountable for their recovery/treatment activities to an appropriate third party, such as a parent, school, court, etc. Our methodology is modeled after programs which have been shown to have a dramatically higher level of outcomes for those typically seen by "routine" treatment modalities. Please refer to our website ebrf.org for more information.

*"Evidence-Based" refers to the principles of effectiveness incorporated into our program utilizing the best available information from peer reviewed journals pertaining to adolescent substance abuse disorders and from the practice parameters outlined by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The following details the components of our program with references.

1) Treatment/Aftercare Requirement
(Williams, Chang, 2002, A Comprehensive and comparative review of adolescent substance abuse treatment outcome. Clin Psych: Sci Pract 7: 252-261.

2) 12 Step Meeting Attendance
(Alford, Koehler, Leonard, 1991, Alcoholics Anonymous-Narcotics Anonymous model inpatient treatment of chemically dependent adolescents: A 2-year outcome study. J Stud Alcohol 52, 118-126.

3) Random urine drug screens (Casavant, 2002, Urine drug screening in adolescents, Pediatric Clinics North Amer 49: 317-327)

4) Telephone monitoring
(McKay, Lynch, Shepard, Pettinati, 2005, The Effectiveness of Telephone-Based Continuing Care for Alcohol and Cocaine Dependence, Arch Gen Psych, 62: 199-207)

5) Peer Support Groups
(Brown, D'Amico, McCarthy, Tapert, Stewart, Vik, 2001, Four-year outcomes from adolescent alcohol and drug treatment, J Stud Alcohol, 59: 427-438)