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The Jude Thaddeus Program ™ – What is it?
The Jude Thaddeus Program™ is a culmination of over twenty years of education, research and experience that has been codified into an educational process and is independently verified as the most effective program in helping people overcome substance abuse and other compulsive behaviors. For those two decades, myself and Mr. Jerry Brown, as well as countless others on our Retreat House™, Home Recovery™, and research staffs have spent nearly all of our time with people struggling with substance abuse problems and developing the world renowned Jude Thaddeus™ series of substance abuse programs. This long term, hands-on research approach had never been attempted in the substance abuse industry until we accomplished the task beginning in 1988. Baldwin Research Institute, Inc. was the first organization where the researchers (and program founders) spent every day and every night for the first ten years, living with the guests on a 24/7 research schedule. This allowed us to study the most effective methods of instruction and curriculum, and to make sure that what we were teaching was helpful and life changing. It also allowed us to change those aspects of the curriculum that were not effective. This unique dedicated approach to research makes the Jude Thaddeus Program™ the most carefully developed program in the treatment and substance abuse education industry. It is also the reason why the St. Jude Retreat Houses™ have the highest voluntary and mandated guest retention and abstinence rates, based on independently verified success rates. Simply put, guests receive the help they need, and the experience is pleasant, not one of misery and empty promises. Ten years of on site research (and another ten years of continued research and program development) is a dedication level that no other program in the world can claim. Our research continues to this moment, and will continue into the future for as long as it takes to gain more effectiveness and the best possible chance for our guest’s joy and fulfillment.
What makes the Jude Thaddeus Program™ so Different from Other Programs?
In the course of those initial ten years of research we needed to find the pattern that repeated itself in the population that caused the most significant array of problems. In other words, what was the most common cause of our collective guest’s unhappiness? We did witness certain counterproductive patterns of behavior repeat themselves time and again. Many of these choices and behaviors caused tremendous emotional and physical pain. If we were to classify these problems into one general category it would be described as the guest’s fundamental lack of maturity in certain areas of their lives.
This is not to oversimplify or to say that every problematic scenario is the same. Far from it. Each individual, whether it be the substance abuser, the family member watching their loved one slowly destroy themselves, or a friend trying to help, has their own perspective and deals with the issues independently of the others, and with the best coping mechanisms they posses. Unfortunately, each of these individual’s perspectives produces certain actions and patterns that can be counterproductive to solving the various problems at hand. The Jude Thaddeus Program™ text addresses these patterns of behavior as well as the misinformation that is promoted in conventional treatment, the frustrations and the fears that go along with those erroneous beliefs. Although each individual has their own perspectives and ways of dealing with their circumstances, as well as the choices of others, the positive lessons in this program are universal. Happiness and success in the human condition follow certain natural laws. These productive patterns have been wholly proven to rebuild lives. Our program bases its curriculum, length of stay, and retreat house amenities, etc., on what is proven to promote an adherence to what we call the positive choice based life experience. Our curriculum is not theory based, but actually based on those ideas and actions that have been proven to build happiness throughout history. Values such as, responsibility, positive goal setting, and a thorough understanding of how to grow past self defeating habits and choices are the foundation of the Jude Thaddeus Program™ text.
We, being on the front lines with thousands of families, (including some of our own) have known the incredible destructive forces behind substance abuse and the myriad of methods out there that have contributed to the problems. We have witnessed firsthand the horrors of families that try so hard to pull it together for their loved ones, only to watch them fail time after time, rehab after rehab. We are cognizant of the methods of “treatment” out there that are ineffective, and in many cases downright harmful and fraudulent. We know first hand how cultish and repressive Alcoholics Anonymous ® and its myriad of 12-step offshoots are. Out of this experience we have developed this program as a means for anyone with a substance abuse issue, or anyone close to those with a substance abuse issue to have a real answer that makes sense, and to avoid the various methods that harm rather than help.
(Authors Note: Although many facilities have tried to emulate and even copy the educational processes and material in our proprietary programs, only the St. Jude Retreat Houses™ in New York, (owned and operated by the management teams from Baldwin Research Institute, Inc.) offer the original, independently tested Jude Thaddeus Program™. There are no other legitimate St. Jude Retreat Houses™ that offer the Jude Thaddeus Program™. All references to the St. Jude Retreat House or the Jude Thaddeus Program in this website are referring to the facilities owned and operated by the not-for-profit Baldwin Research Institute, Inc. in New York State.)
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