her lived experience with addiction helped create an urban model for holistic, community-based young adult treatment, with the Dorm’s Amanda Fialk

One of the biggest challenges young people who are misusing drugs and alcohol face is identifying the plan for transitioning back to the “real world” post-treatment. Young people can become vulnerable because they feel they don’t belong anywhere as they start to rebuild a new and different life that doesn’t involve substances. If they aren’t ready to hold down a job or enroll in college, where do they go? How do they spend their time without getting into trouble?

In this episode, I’m joined by Amanda Fialk, the Chief Clinical Officer of the Dorm, a safe place for young adults to find community and gain skills and tools to become independent as they seek to find their place in the world after treatment for substance use and mental health challenges.