Mission And Core Beliefs
“Newport Academy is dedicated to providing comprehensive, gender-specific, integrated treatment programs for adolescent males and females in an environment of caring and compassion by which teens and their families may recover from the destructive effects of substance abuse and related behavioral health issues.”
Core Program Beliefs
- In order to have long-term, sustainable healing, a treatment program must identify, address and heal the underlying, core issues that are causing a teen to participate in self-destructive behaviors
- Incorporate a gender-specific treatment model that addresses the distinct differences and treatment needs of adolescent males and females
- Incorporate evidence-based treatment approaches while remaining open-minded and receptive to new treatment methods
- Provide highly individualized treatment plans designed by multi-disciplinary, adolescent mental health and addiction treatment specialists
- A commitment to treat mental health and addiction as a family disease emphasizing the importance of the families involvement in every aspect of treatment and recovery
- Provide comprehensive psychological, medical and educational components essential to recovery
- Provide an ideal environment for teens to feel at home and begin their recovery – serene, safe, structured and secure
- Incorporate experiential therapies to engage and retain adolescents in an therapeutic environment built upon trust and honesty
- Provide comprehensive and integrated treatment programs that address all aspects of an adolescent’s life
- Provide developmentally appropriate programs that reflect the developmental differences between adults and adolescents
- An understanding that education, healing and recovery is a lifelong process
