Back on Track

The Back on Track programs are the long awaited answer to Maine's need for community-oriented, integrated, and targeted treatment intervention for our socially vulnerable youth.
By offering two distinct groups to educate and support youth who are at risk for aggression, substance use, and other risky behaviors, we aim to help these youth make changes toward more socially responsible attitudes, thinking and choices.

Skills for Responsible Thinking (SRT)

Skills for Responsible Thinking (SRT) is a comprehensive, community-based program for 13 to 18-year-olds who are at high risk for engaging in violent or criminal behaviors or substance use.

The Goals

Reduce the risk of violent or criminal behaviors or substance use.
Understand how values and beliefs affect feelings and behavior.
Identify, challenge and replace the values, attitudes and beliefs that rationalize, justify or minimize problematic behavior.
Learn the essential values of individual and collective well-being in a diverse society.
Accept responsibility for actions.
Gain insights that lead to good choices in tough situations.
Weigh the impact of antisocial behavior on self and others.
Develop and practice methods of countering harmful peer influences.
Design plans to deal with "risky" situations.

The Program

17 peer-driven group sessions
Group sessions focus on increasing motivation to change, identifying attitudes that support criminal behavior, challenging those attitudes and replacing them with prosocial attitudes.
Facilitators lead students in a series of hypothetical and concrete dilemmas that stimulate consideration for victims, the need for a formal justice system, and responsibility for one's own behavior.
Relapse prevention plan is put into place before completion of the program.
Post-graduate support includes a group session to review skills, evaluate the effectiveness of the relapse prevention program and the opportunity to have individual booster sessions to refresh and practice skills in order to avoid relapse.

Adolescent Anger Management Program

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

--Lyman Abbott

The Adolescent Anger Management Program (AAMP) is a cognitive-behavioral group that incorporates motivational interviewing strategies.

The Goals

Develop an understanding of what anger is.
Develop insight into the youth's anger style and individual triggers.
Become aware of physical cues associated with anger.
Develop skills that manage anger.
Become aware of what their mind tells them and how this affects their level of anger and behavior.
Develop an understanding of how to achieve constructive consequences rather than destructive consequences.

The Program

16 group sessions focusing on practical, real-life examples from the youth's life.
Teaching centers around coping strategies, self control and stress management.

Program requirements

To make a referral we require that a referral form, Release of Information, and background information. After the provider has submitted this paperwork they should communicate with the student or his/her guardian that they are responsible to call us to make an appointment for an initial intake.

Learn more

To receive more information regarding either group, please contact Leslie Lennig at 207.775.0105 ext. 133.

Forms & Paperwork

» Referral Form

All paperwork should be faxed through our confidential fax line: 207-775-1392.