Life Changing Ministries Substance Abuse Outpatient Services was founded by Robert Harris, who wanted to help youths, individuals, and families overcome the many obstacles that prevent them from achieving their dreams and goals. Since 2014, Mr. Harris has built the LCM staff which has more than 30 years of combined experience in social services and spiritual guidance, working with youths, individuals, and families in the community who have suffered from drugs, alcohol and mental health issues. Life Changing Ministries Substance Abuse Outpatient Services is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization designed to help individuals through a spiritual awakening. Our clients include adults, youths, and families who are struggling with alcohol and other drugs, education, mental health issues, and other issues that place them at risk of failing in society. Life Changing Ministries Substance Abuse Outpatient Services is committed to the treatment of Substance Abuse through a holistic treatment approach that encompasses our client’s environmental, physiological, psychological, and social aspects, while addressing ethnic and cultural values. We are firm in the belief of the clinical and spiritual approach. We are fully prepared to combat the dysfunctional aspects of addiction by treating it as a disease. We combine spiritual Illiteracy in our approach to help people in hyper difficult situations. A hyper difficult situation would include those who once rose from the rubbish of pain and poverty, only to return by the hand of relapse through substance abuse and mental health illness and spiritual attacks. Our clinical and spiritual health professionals recognize that no one course of treatment is going to be appropriate for all clients. Furthermore, they understand specific social and cultural differences will necessitate the availability of various treatment modalities. Although many issues may be psychological in nature, it is necessary that clients be given a holistic and culturally sensitive environment that will encourage self-esteem, cultural worth, improved coping mechanisms, and problem-solving skills through a spiritual awakening. Substance abuse and addiction can create medically related problems. Therefore, an interdisciplinary approach is used to address the complex physical and psychological problems under the direction and leadership of the medical staff. In order for treatment to be most effective, the process must involve the whole individual and address those issues that clearly affect a person’s well-being. For this reason, Life Changing Ministries Substance Abuse Outpatient Services implements services that are specifically directed at the individual’s medical, psychological, social, vocational, legal, and spiritual needs. Also, an important aspect of the treatment process is the involvement of the person’s family. These involvements are vital and critical for a complete picture of the affected member and to the provision of appropriate intervention. Family presence is implemented to arrest the pattern of abuse or dependence and enable the client to begin the process of recovery in a supportive environment. This recovery process will help steer clients to a high level of commitment towards lifestyle change and ultimately life reconstruction. Mission Philosophy:
The mission of Life Changing Ministries Substance Abuse Outpatient Services is to assist individuals, youth, adults, and families with making choices that will determine the course of their lives and assist them to become stronger, independent, and empowered people. Life Changing Ministries Substance Abuse Outpatient Services provides comprehensive, direct spiritual guidance and culturally specific, community-based services to clients regardless of their race, creed, national origin, or religion. Services are designed to assist the client in problem resolution. We are committed to the treatment of substance abuse and addiction and family dysfunction among all ethnic groups. LCM’s mission is to help the client acknowledge, learn about, and develop positive spiritual coping mechanisms with respect to addressing their mental health problems. We want clients to gain the skills and support needed to function independently in the community, take responsibility for directing their own lives, and be a positive functioning member of the community. Life Changing Ministries Substance Abuse Outpatient Services recognizes the disease and spiritual illiteracy component of substance abuse and addiction coupled with the violence and poverty of today. Our counselors also understand violence and poverty aren’t just limited to urban areas. In both the inner city and the suburbs, the problems faced by many youths and families are perpetuated by the compulsive and dysfunctional use of mood and mind altering substances. The dysfunctional aspects of the disease include psychological dependence, pharmacological tolerance to substances, physical dependence, pathological changes in various organ functions, and the deterioration of the family and social life. Work and school performance, and other forms of maladaptive behavior including spiritual death are also aspects of the disease of addiction.
