AK Add Rehabilitation Services incResidential Treatment in Wasilla, AK
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Alaska Addiction Rehabilitation Services, Inc. (AARS) is one of Alaska's oldest adult residential substance abuse treatment programs, founded in 1982. Located on 116 acres of farmland known as Nugen's Ranch in Point Mackenzie, Wasilla, Alaska, AARS has been serving adults with substance use disorder and co-occurring disorders for over 40 years. The program combines twelve-step recovery, group and individual counseling, life skills training, and work therapy in a supportive residential environment. A distinctive feature is the farm and work-therapy focus, where clients learn about farming and gain a sense of self-worth through work therapy. The facility also offers a vocational education program to develop occupational skills. AARS provides both residential treatment and outpatient transitional housing. Treatment includes individual, family, and group counseling, with daily attendance at AA/NA meetings to help clients develop a healthy recovery network and lasting support.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
12-step facilitation
Twelve-Step Facilitation. Helps you engage with mutual-aid fellowships (GA, AA, SMART) as a recovery community rather than a solo grind.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
Anger management
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Brief intervention
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Contingency management/motivational incentives
Contingency Management. Evidence-based reinforcement approach: small, immediate, tangible rewards for verified abstinence and engagement. Strongest evidence base of any non-medication intervention for stimulant + gambling disorder.
Community reinforcement plus vouchers
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing. A collaborative conversation that strengthens your own reasons for change rather than arguing you into it.
Relapse prevention
Relapse Prevention. Identifies your specific high-risk situations, warning signs, and choice points. Then builds a written, rehearsed plan for each so the moment is not the first time you decide.
Substance use disorder counseling
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Trauma-related counseling
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
- Residential/24-hour residential
Facility
- Residential treatment center (RTC) for adults
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Assertive community treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Intensive case management
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Supported employment
- Supported housing
- Vocational rehabilitation services
- Case management service
- Suicide prevention services
- Education services
Education & counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Young Adults
- Seniors
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