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New Found Life

4.1 Great (11 Reviews) |
5624344060
California (CA) > Long Beach, CA
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4.1
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2211 East Ocean Blvd.
Long Beach, California 90803
5624344060

Financial & Insurance Details

  • Insurance
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Financing

Services

  • Residential Neighborhood

Facility Highlights

Monthly Family Forum Education Series

Family Counseling

Individual and group counseling

Philosophy

At New Found Life in Long Beach, California, addiction and chemical dependency are treated with methodology rooted in 12-step programs. New Found life treats chemical dependency as a disease, and focuses on dual-diagnosis treatments. New Found Life offers programs that move patients through each step of the recovery phase, beginning with intervention. New Found Life’s positive and encouraging environment is the perfect setting for recovering addicts to come to grips what addiction and chemical dependency. Through one-on-one sessions, group therapy, family participation and continuing care, New Found Life helps patients build the life skills necessary to achieve – and sustain – sobriety.

Facility Center Details

  • Residential Treatment
  • Detox Services
  • Behavioral Disorder Treatment
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Outpatient Services
  • Intensive Outpatient Services
  • Sober Living Home
  • Day School
  • Private Rooms
  • Pet Friendly
  • Exceptionally LGBT Friendly
  • Men Only
  • Women Only

Accreditation/License

  • CARF
  • JCAHO
  • ADP
  • NAATP

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3.7
Very Good
Pros A. Nice location B. Great Food C. Most of the therapist and staff really care for and try to help clients within their ability Cons A. One shoe fits all approach. B. The management team has no influence over the course of a client the decisions are all up to one man C. There is no real Science-Based approach the owner and director himself claims to offer different methods for recovery but he himself is an Addict and therefore only supports a 12 step based solution for his clientele. D. No real transportation rides for clients to meetings and events are provided by staff usually piling unsafe numbers of people into small cars with not enough seatbelts. E. punishment for clients who do not follow protocol is usually a backslide stay back at detox where there is more chance for risky behavior which the client pays for. Here was my experience. I went through New Found Life twice. The first time I went through I left thinking the added money did not equate to better treatment than the government paid programs. I have to admit the accommodations were nice and the staff friendly and really caring. Of real substance, I feel like there was none. They did offer one Psychiatric appointment in the beginning and after discussing very difficult stuff and past psychiatric diagnoses and current symptoms I never saw the doctor again that whole stay. My second trip was to appease my worried grieving mother. After the loss of my father to cancer. My mom had reached out Because she feared for my life. I was actually clean for 6 days but not completely detoxed and was adamantly against her spending the money for N.F.L because I knew in my mind they weren't gonna offer anything new or beneficial. I didn't want her to waste 20-30 thousand dollars when I could get the same or better help for free. Against my own instincts, I caved to her plea and checked in to new found life. I could not bear to hear her cry anymore and I felt responsible for all the pain I caused. She spoke to a staff member and he was listening to mine and her concerns. I was to have a more structured program this time with frequent psych and therapy appointments. The program cost more than double the first stay and was supposed to be open-ended based on my progress. If I did well I would be there a month or two if needed maybe three. He talked a very good game but the follow through was not there. I did not see the Psychiatrist or therapist more than a couple of times and again most of the work for my recovery was put on me working a 12 step program. The classes were no different than the first time with that old tv and VHS tapes often being the teacher. Basic entry level cognitive behavioral skills were taught by counselors at times but there were no in-depth skills taught for people who had been through treatment before. its like going to kindergarten year after year. I suffered bad anxiety when I arrived at New Found Life. One particular instance, I was denied an ambulance call or ride to the hospital by by staff. I chose to leave against staff approval late at night and walk through a particularly sketchy part of town to ask a liquor store owner to call the paramedics because I thought I was having a heart attack. I was then as punishment forced to go back to a detox facility they work with. At the time I was sent there they were having a problem with drugs that had been brought in and people using and I oddly wondered which place was safer NFL or the detox with the drug problem. I went back to N.F.L and continued the best program I could because I had decided that no matter what I was gonna stay clean and make the best of the gift mom had tried to give me. I worked the steps again, did assignments twice sometimes if they weren't in my mind perfect. I met all the criteria and was set to transition to the halfway house. I had found a career job with a sober boss that was almost too good to be true. I graduated and was approved to start my new Job the next day. When I reported to the transitional living there was no bed for me. They put me in another man's bed who was out of town visiting his mom. No change of sheets. The first day at my new job and this part baffled me. I was visited by two staff members from NFL who wanted to buy me lunch. They were sent I thought to congratulate me? Maybe apologize for the dirty bed? Instead they wanted to let me know I had two options quit my new job and go back to the inpatient treatment or leave the program altogether. The only thing that makes any sense with this ultimatum is that they didn't have a place to put me. Nor did he want to finish the contract that my mother had been promised and that she had so gladly paid for just to keep her jonjon safe. I stayed at that job for a year and still do business with them today. Newfound life was more of a liability than a help. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.
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5.0
Excellent
im still sober almost 4 years later, life is good!the 100% focus on the program of recovery. wish we could exercise more.
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"We have to save her life!," were the words to me as we frantically searched for my daughter who was not at the spot where she was to picked up and taken to New Found Life facilities. We finally found her and she was taken in by staff. It was my daughter's third treatment facility and finally one in which she felt comfortable and assured. It wasn't love at first sight, but as time went by I could see the change in her. Less and less of her blame game and more and more accepting responsibility for where she was in her life. Now it is three and a half years later and my daughter is about to receive her MBA and is enjoying life because of this wonderful and capable staff. And yes, it is one day at time.
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5.0
Excellent
My cousin went through New Found Life, what an amazing transformation she went through. Our family was involved and learned a lot attending the family weekends. I can say enough about the good work these people do, they have been around a long time, tried and true. Thanks for what you guys do!!!
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Do not get treatment here. It's expensive staffing is poor. Management bad mouths staff. A very uncomfortable environment. You are treated like a child and not a person
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5.0
Excellent
I was so very pleased with the level of care provided to my daughter from NFL. I was so nervous dropping her off there, but I knew that she needed inpatient care. My daughter is two years sober and our family is no longer suffering from her addiction. I thank God and NFL!!
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2.0
N/A
Poor aftercare, limited, overworked and unavailable staff make for a poor experience and value.
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4.3
Great
Some excellent counselors. Great Off site AA meetings. Very clean. I've been sober for over two years all because of my great experience with this rehab. Strengths: Clean. Organized. Lots of aa meetings. Weaknesses: Lack of extra Curricular activities not enough exercise programs.
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5.0
Excellent
Set in a home. Large sober community in Long Beach. Facility encourages continuation of involvement in recovery by volunteer work, peer support. The staff was very caring and observant.
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4.7
Excellent
Supportive community with follow on sober living options. Facility is on the beach in a beautiful location. There are AA beach meetings. They also helped with job placement for those entering sober house.
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2.0
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The experience was horrible. ... He was 51 years old and had commited no crime. Although he was employer mandated, they still would not let us communicate for quite some time, even though we were in a 10 year long relationship and I am the one who saved him from death. Which was no easy task I might add. They had no interest in my opinion regarding his problems whatsoever ... It's designed for young herion addicts with lot of money, who are in the criminal justice system. He did have a relapse after leaving treatment and they did take him back in for another 30 days, but the minute he got out, he started drinking again. Completely ineffective!! It was a complete waste of money. A total sham. The facility advertised individual therapy, and there was no individual therapy. And it was quite costly. My significant other stated that they never saw the "professionals" and they mostly worked with "drug and rehab counselors fresh out of college."
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