Bridges of Iowa, patterned after the successful Bridges of Ameria program, offers a variety of alternative sanctions for men and women with substance abuse problems. Each treatment program is designed to seek out and eliminate the root causes of the addictive behavior and provide healing for the whole person: body, mind and spirit. The Bridges uses a continuum of care that includes residential and aftercare treatments as part of its overall services to substance abusers at all levels.

 

The Bridges Program

Bridges of Iowa represents a stabilizing force that, through a step-by-step process, provides an individualized program of training, peer support and counseling services. The clients may come to Bridges because of a prison diversion judicial sentence. For example, the judge determines that preventive treatment may circumvent the downward spiral toward crime and prison. Or clients may be assigned to the Bridge at the crucial point when they are re-entering society.