Services
Broken Chains Consulting Services provides compassionate, person-centered support for people working toward recovery and positive change. Services include peer recovery coaching, relapse prevention, anger management, trauma-informed support, and guidance in building healthy relationships and boundaries. With a special commitment to people involved in the criminal justice system, we help individuals build on their strengths, connect with resources, and move toward a healthier future.
Staying Quit
“Staying Quit is a 40-page, 8-session program that helps clients avoid relapse by recognizing risky situations, coping with urges and cravings, being around urges, understanding support issues, and taking charge.”
Thinking For Good
“Thinking For Good is a 37-page, 10-module program that focuses on typical criminal thinking issues such as lying, cheating, stealing, trust, manipulative relationships, and the idea that rules don’t apply to everyone.”
“How To Escape Your Prison is the primary MRT workbook used for adult offenders and adults in substance abuse treatment. The 152-page workbook is also used in programs for multiple DUI offenders. The workbook addresses all of the issues related to criminal thinking and criminal needs.”
MRT® (Moral Reconation Therapy)
Coping With Anger
“Coping With Anger is a 49-page, 8-session program that focuses on teaching and practicing anger management skills. It is targeted towards adults and juveniles who have problems with appropriately managing anger and frustration. It is used with violent offenders, argumentative/oppositional clients, as a supplemental program with domestic violence perpetrators, with road rage offenders, substance abuse, and drug courts.”
Bringing Peace to Relationships
"Bringing Peace To Relationships is a 119-page, 24-module adaptation of MRT-Moral Reconation Therapy® used exclusively with batterers —perpetrators of domestic violence. The book is used with many batterers’ programs as the primary treatment method. MRT-Moral Reconation Therapy® is an NREPP program."
Untangling Relationships
“Untangling Relationships is a 28-page, 12-session program that directly confronts the key issues of codependency, including manipulation and dependent relationships. It is targeted towards substance abusers, criminals, and those involved in domestic violence or dysfunctional relationships.”
Discovering Life & Liberty in the Pursuit of Happiness
"Discovering Life & Liberty in the Pursuit of Happiness is a 109-page, 16-chapter educational adaptation of MRT-Moral Reconation Therapy®, designed to help individuals set personal goals, improve relationships, and develop greater focus in their daily lives. This program is suitable for diverse populations across a variety of educational and community settings."
*All aforementioned programs have been developed by Correctional Counseling, Inc., the sole distributor of Moral Reconation Therapy® materials. For more information, visit: www.ccimrt.com. More specific programs may be available through Broken Chains Consulting Services. Contact us for inquiries.
Easy Money
"Easy Money is a 40-page, 10-chapter program designed to help individuals understand basic concepts about money and make informed financial decisions. Exercises progress from the simple concept of earning money up to the point of setting personal financial goals and creating an action plan to achieve them. Some of the topics discussed include: opening a bank account, planning for purchases, paying bills and budgeting, credit cards, and saving money. Topics are presented in a straightforward, easy-to-understand manner and the exercises challenge participants to apply this information to their own life."
Breaking The Chains of Trauma
"Breaking the Chains of Trauma is a 67-page, 8-session MRT-Moral Reconation Therapy® adaptation that incorporates all of the key issues identified in SAMHSA’s Trauma-Informed Treatment Protocol. Breaking the Chains of Trauma is targeted toward individuals struggling with trauma-related symptoms. The program is most beneficial in treating recovery offenders, mental health clients, substance abusers, and individuals struggling with day-to-day responsibilities." ** There are separate program materials for men and women.**
Diversion Programs
Diversion programs offer eligible individuals an alternative to traditional criminal justice processing. They connect participants with services and support—such as substance use treatment, counseling, or peer recovery coaching—to address underlying needs, encourage accountability, and support positive change. Requirements and eligibility vary by program and location.
Taking The High Road
“Taking the High Road is a completely new and unique 41-page drug education workbook and program for offenders at all levels of criminal justice — drug courts, parole and probation, community corrections, jails, and prisons. It utilizes an approach of brutal honesty and openness and has participants share their ideas, thoughts, and experiences in a group format. The program can be operated as an educational class or in an open-ended group. Traditional drug education for offenders attempts to scare participants but, as all criminal justice professionals know that approach simply has no discernible effect on this population. The program consists of eight modules where participants first read the relevant module and answer questions posed at the conclusion of each. In group, each participant then shares his or her response with the group.”
Driving The Right Way
“Driving the Right Way is a 33-page, 4-module program aimed at changing thinking and decision-making in first-time offenders. The program is incorporated into DUI programs in accordance with a state’s hourly educational/treatment requirements of which the Driving the Right Way component comprises 6 to 8 hours.”
Something For Nothing
“Something For Nothing is a 17-page, 6-module program designed to confront and expose the thinking and behaviors associated with shoplifting. It targets shoplifters who are placed on probation, diversion programs, or ordered to undergo a shoplifting treatment program.”
*All aforementioned programs have been developed by Correctional Counseling, Inc., the sole distributor of Moral Reconation Therapy® materials. For more information, visit: www.ccimrt.com. More specific programs may be available through Broken Chains Consulting Services. Contact us for inquiries.
Peer Recovery Coaching
Peer recovery coaching is a nonclinical, person-centered partnership in which a trained coach draws on lived experience and professional training to support someone in pursuing their own recovery goals. The coach can offer encouragement, help plan next steps, and connect the person with useful resources and recovery communities. ICAADA describes its Certified Peer Recovery Coach credential as supporting people seeking or maintaining recovery.