Our Mission at YSC Recovery is to help men overcome addiction and alcoholism by showing them how to take action in their lives using a 12-step philosophy and hands-on approach. YSC teaches and shows life skills to build confidence in order to achieve long-term sobriety.
The vision of YSC Recovery is to provide a place and atmosphere where men can clear out the wreckage of their past; so that they can uncover an awareness of true self, igniting their imagination and discovering purpose in life.
YSC Recovery was founded by Dana McMahon and Daniel Celmer. Both were recovering addicts and working in the treatment industry, disgusted with the extremely high cost of treatment and the knowledge that insurance companies control the length of stay in recovery programs, often to the detriment of the addict. Both Dana and Dan belong to 12-step fellowship and are active members in their groups and through their experience getting and maintaining sobriety by studying the 12-steps, they know that 12-step programs work!
Dana and Dan were once hopeless; in and out of a combined 30 treatment facilities and multiple jails and prisons, deemed by many, as hopeless to ever recover. For this reason, they know that they must not only teach, but most importantly, show men how to properly work a 12-step program. Clients must be taught and shown how to build healthy relationships, self-confidence and self-esteem through service and a family-like community. Most addicts have never developed those things or any life skills in order to live life successfully after treatment.
The life skill sessions offered at YSC Recovery are offered depending upon individual need. For example, clients learn how to build a proper resume, how to balance a checkbook, how to cook a nutritious meal. They soon discover that the skill sets that all addicts develop to survive, can be utilized in a positive, productive manner toward a successful, sober life.
There are many 12-step-based, long-term programs all over the country. YSC uses many of the same philosophies and tools taught in other programs. However, the staff at YSC ‘walks the talk’. They show clients how to live a sober life successfully, by example, as well as instruction.
YSC is not a treatment center. A client is assessed through an interview process to ascertain if a higher level of care may be needed. If a client needs a psychiatrist or therapist, YSC has relationships with some of the best addiction specialists and mental health professionals in the area. All clients are evaluated by a psychiatrist to ensure that they get the help they need.
Along with our family-oriented, experienced staff and our beautiful, homelike property, YSC is a great place to learn and practice the art of substance-abuse recovery. With consistency, accountability and responsibility (none of which is practiced in the chaos of addiction), YSC believes that ANYONE can successfully recover from this, too often, fatal disease.
