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What OPI Provides

OPI IS AN ALL-INCLUSIVE PROGRAM. WE PROVIDE:

  • Room and Board

    • OPI is in Woodland Hills, CA , in the San Fernando Valley about 45 minutes northwest of Los Angeles and 45 minutes east of Malibu.

    • Participants live in beautiful, secure 2-or-3 bedroom apartments in complexes that have swimming pools, recreational rooms, workout rooms, meeting and computer rooms.

    • Males live in their apartments. Females live in theirs.

    • A maximum of two Participants per bedroom is allowed.

    • Participants are involved in meal planning and preparation and maintenance of their personal space.

  • Individualized Emotional, Educational and Career Development (Treatment) Plans

    • As soon as a Participant enters OPI he/she meets with the heads of our Departments of Education; Career, Volunteer and Community Service, and Extra Curricular Activities to formulate a comprehensive Individualized Treatment Plan (ITP). The ITP outlines the individualized activities and individualized therapy for each Participant while they are here.

  • Clinical Services

    At OPI Participants come to understand their internal thinking processes and feelings, learning to use these insights to achieve the real life objectives they set for themselves while they are here. We provide:

    • Individual Psychotherapy Sessions (8 per month)

    • Individual Psychiatric Consultation/Medication Management (2 per month)

    • Individual One-to-One Life Coaching Sessions (8 per month) (SEE BELOW)

    • Psycho-dynamically oriented group counseling sessions (8 per month) with topics ranging from computer addiction to social skills development.

    • Milieu Meetings once a week

    • Staff and Peer Group Support 24/7

    • Constant Contact: Participants are in 24/7 contact with our Administration and Independent Living Specialists who meet each week to review their progress.

    • Substance Abuse meetings: Either 12-step or in-house or both, plus individual counseling and support from OPI’s Chemical Dependency Counseling team.

      • Individualized plans for maintaining sobriety

      • Recreational opportunities for CD Participants to experience fun and pleasure in sober environments.

  • Educational Services

    • Our Department of Education opens its doors to those pursuing educational goals as well as those who seek educational opportunities to learn about careers and fields of interest or to simply enhance their quality of life.

    • Participants work directly with our Educational team in our expanded educational space to facilitate the completion of their work.

    • We review transcripts, create educational plans and help with registration and application navigation.

    • We help them develop and maintain study and organizational skills and schedules.

    • Participants get specialized educational counseling and preparation for the SAT and GED tests.

    • OPI Participants can:

      • Graduate from High School

      • Get a GED

      • Begin or continue college

    • Our Young adults can attend college, finish high school or get a GED. They can attend schools of music, art, film, fashion, dance, culinary and get automobile certification, computer technician certification and lean specialized computer skills.

    • Participants can take classes at near-by Pierce College, California State University, Northridge; Moorpark College, Antioch College, Cal Lutheran, UCLA, Santa Monica City College, the Los Angeles Film School, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) and more.

    • A variety of other educational opportunities also exist at The Sound and Audio Engineering Institute (SAE), Musician’s Institute, the West Valley Occupational Center and the Westlake Culinary Institute.

    • See THE OPI YOUNG ADULT PROGRAM: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

  • Individualized Career, Volunteer and Community Services

    • Participants can take an Interest Inventory, explore part time job opportunities and learn about fields such as automotive repair, computer design, film directing, creating music.

    • They get support in all phases of job procurement from writing resumes and doing mock interviews to office etiquette.

    • OPI Participants work in businesses throughout our community.

    • Monthly Community Service activities range from cleaning beaches to walking for the Neurofibromatosis Foundation.

    • They volunteer at music festivals, marathons, homes for the aged, Pet Adoption Agencies, the LA Holocaust Museum, etc.

    • They intern at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Safe & Sound Automotive and Fender Foundation, etc.

    • They continue learning the value of building an internal sense of discipline and of persevering during difficult times.

    • See THE OPI YOUNG ADULT PROGRAM: DEPARTMENT OF CAREER, VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

  • Opportunities for Personal Growth (Extra-Curricular Activities)

    • Extra-curricular activities serve as a springboard to help Participants move forward, develop skillful ways to communicate, deal with anxiety, learn to persevere and increase self esteem.

    • Participants go to museums and concerts.

    • We have an in-house Cooking Class, a Music and Emotions Class, a Book Club and weekly “jam” sessions at a nearby recording studio. We hold mic-nights throughout the year.

    • Exciting recreational activities help build healthy and supportive peer networks including:

      • Basketball, surfing, snowboarding, bowling, bouldering, hiking, paintballing, hiking, flag football, indoor sky diving and more.

      • Additional activities (voice, guitar, Japanese Koto or Tae Kwon Do lessons, for instance) are available.

    • SEE “THE OPI YOUNG ADULT PROGRAM—DEPARTMENT OF EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES”

  • Individual One-to-One Life Coaching

    • Life Coaching provides even greater individualized support to Participants crossing developmental and cognitive thresholds.

    • Our Life Coaching staff helps Participants define and work toward goals creating small action steps that are accomplished and measured through a system of accountability.

    • OPI provides eight individual Life Coaching sessions per month.

    • SEE “THE OPI YOUNG ADULT PROGRAM—LIFE COACHING”

  • Individual Chemical Dependency Services (if appropriate)

    What distinguishes OPI is that we want each Participant to truly appreciate and embrace sobriety and acknowledge that sobriety is an essential piece in their ability to succeed in their professional as well as their personal and recreational goals.

    • Individual sessions with a CD Counselor (4 per month)

    • Group session with CD Counselor (4 per month)

    • CD social outings, confirming there is fun to be had without the use of substances (4 per month).

    • Participants struggling with Chemical Dependency meet with our Director to devise an individual plan that will foster sobriety. This is done through many formats but most important is the active commitment of the Participant to create a set of patterns and support that will allow him/her to meet their commitment to continued sobriety.

    • We believe there are many young people who, for many reasons, are unable to embrace the 12-step philosophy. For those who do, we drive Participants to 12-step meetings throughout the community to explore issues ranging from alcohol/drug abuse and sexual addition to eating disorders (as many as needed/requested).

    • All Participants in the CD Program get random urine drug testing.

    • SEE “THE YOUNG ADULT OPI PROGRAM—THE OPI ADDICTIONS PROGRAM”

  • Life Skills Training

    • Some OPI Participants need to learn life skills in order to move forward in the real world. At OPI we teach them how to balance a check book, maintain a budget, maintain a schedule, use local transportation services, maintain an apartment, cook and much, much more.

  • Transportation and Scheduling Services

    • We transport our Participants everywhere within 20 miles of our offices and help them schedule their daily activities.

    • Participants who have reached the Developmental Milestones they—and OPI—have set, may bring their own car to OPI with the approval of parents/sponsors and the OPI Treatment Team.

  • Family Involvement

    • Families are in regular communication (often weekly) with their Young Adult’s therapist who serves as the case manager. The objective is to transform family communication with a more mature, sensitive and responsible young adult which reduces anxiety and creates greater support for all parties.

    • Therapists provide feedback and updates on the Participant’s progress and also provide support to parents.

    • Participants re-establish the bridge of communication they used to have with each other that allows for greater acceptance as well as tolerance and clarification of differences and shared values.

Services requiring additional fees are first discussed with Parents/Sponsors. This could include charges by third party providers (colleges, books), additional OPI therapeutic Services (extra psychiatric or psychotherapy sessions, life coaching sessions, extra drug tests, etc.), special OPI events and OPI’s Adventure Travel Program (see below). Parents/sponsors provide their Young Adult with a weekly allowance.

  • Customized Adventure Travel Experiences

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