ASPIRE is Aldersgate’s Alternative Structured Program to promote Individual Responsibility and Education – a unique offering designed to help and educate those under 21 with alcohol and/or other drug-related offenses.  ASPIRE’s basic format is to address the particular issues of each individual participant -- both legal and personal -- in a customized manner.

ASPIRE normally consists of six sessions:  one individual meeting, four group meetings with other program participants, and one family session.   

Aspire includes:

  • An evaluation of the participant’s overall drug and alcohol history and the level of personal at-risk behavior;
  • An educational, peer-group component (4 sessions) focusing on substance use and abuse prevention, providing meaningful substance abuse education with clear, consistent messages -- based on factual information -- about the dangers of substance abuse and its legal and physical consequences (Aspire classes are intentionally kept small);
  • One individual and one family counseling session to explore problem-solving and decision-making skills, social pressures, motivations and frustrations, as well as family dynamics and available community and personal support-systems;
  • Prompt documented feedback of program enrollment to court, police, school liason, or other referral sources, including notification of program completion;              
  • Prompt notification of non-compliant or extreme at-risk behavior to referral sources of mandated participants.  

Sessions can be adapted to assist with a wide range of situations involving drugs and/or alcohol.     

Enrollment is completed through a brief phone interview or in-person contact with Aldersgate’s Intake Coordinator.  An assigned counselor contacts each participant and promptly schedules the first appointment.    

For more information about ASPIRE, please contact:

Aldersgate
215.657.4545
42 N. York Road
Willow Grove, PA 19090

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