The River oak staff
River Oak is a sober high school supporting the educational needs of teens in recovery.
It can be scary and overwhelming for a teen to go to residential treatment or begin the journey of recovery. One of the biggest challenges they face begins when they re-enter the school system. The Center's staff hope to assist in offering students an opportunity to grow academically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
It can be scary and overwhelming for a teen to go to residential treatment or begin the journey of recovery. One of the biggest challenges they face begins when they re-enter the school system. The Center's staff hope to assist in offering students an opportunity to grow academically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
Our Staff's Commitment to Students
1. Create a supportive and enthusiastic environment for your recovery and education.
2. Work collaboratively with your Alternative Peer Group (APG) in supporting your emotional, social, mental, physical and spiritual development.
3. Offer opportunities for daily "check-in" and "closing" so you can work through issues that may stand in the way of your educational process each day.
4. Provide brief counseling interventions if necessary, to address any behavioral/emotional/recovery issues that surface while at school.
5. Perform random and frequent drug tests, reinforcing your accountability and ensuring your compliance with our Mission.
6. Listen to you and hold you accountable with love
2. Work collaboratively with your Alternative Peer Group (APG) in supporting your emotional, social, mental, physical and spiritual development.
3. Offer opportunities for daily "check-in" and "closing" so you can work through issues that may stand in the way of your educational process each day.
4. Provide brief counseling interventions if necessary, to address any behavioral/emotional/recovery issues that surface while at school.
5. Perform random and frequent drug tests, reinforcing your accountability and ensuring your compliance with our Mission.
6. Listen to you and hold you accountable with love
Our Staff's Commitment to Parents & Guardians
1. Treat your teen with love, acceptance and respect, especially if they are having a rough time and are acting out.
2. Return your calls within one business day if you leave a message.
3. Work with your family to ensure the well-being of your teen.
4. Provide support of, and collaboration with, APGs, psychiatrists, educational consultants and other professionals as needed.
5. Be clear and consistent with disciplinary consequences and create therapeutic contracts with your teen when necessary.
6. Openly hear any feedback you have regarding your teen’s education and development.
7. Provide services and activities that prepare your teen for life beyond high school including, but not limited to: college guidance counseling, study preparation, résumé building and vocational counseling.
2. Return your calls within one business day if you leave a message.
3. Work with your family to ensure the well-being of your teen.
4. Provide support of, and collaboration with, APGs, psychiatrists, educational consultants and other professionals as needed.
5. Be clear and consistent with disciplinary consequences and create therapeutic contracts with your teen when necessary.
6. Openly hear any feedback you have regarding your teen’s education and development.
7. Provide services and activities that prepare your teen for life beyond high school including, but not limited to: college guidance counseling, study preparation, résumé building and vocational counseling.
Dan Renaud, CAP, ICADC |
Michael McGuire |
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Dan Renaud BS, CAP, ICADC is a widely acclaimed addiction counselor from Jacksonville, Florida.
Himself addicted to drugs and alcohol as a teenager, Dan’s addiction landed himself into endless hopeless situations, and accordingly his career has been built upon not only an understanding but an identification with his valued patients whose trials and tribulations he has shared and knows well. Just the same as he has been clean for over 30 years, so too does Dan recognize and actively embrace the knowledge that addiction treatment is not a quick fix but a lifelong mission. Today Dan specializes in adolescent treatment and family crisis intervention, utilizing various individual and group therapy modalities. He is Founder and Executive Director of Florida Recovery Schools (Recovery High School) With a reputation in integrity, Dan Renaud has served on numerous panels, lectured at colleges and schools, and led seminars on addictions in Jacksonville and across the state of Florida. Happily Married to Tamara, his wife of 3 years, Dan is father to 5 and a grandfather to 1, and when not at work or with family often found practicing Yoga or cruising around the suburbs near his home on a 2-wheel Navaro. |
After using drugs and alcohol for nearly a decade, Michael McGuire walked into a state sponsored detox facility in St. Petersburg, Florida, on New Year's Day, 2011. This wasn't his first time in detox, nor the second, but God willing it will be his last. After moving into a sober living facility and beginning outpatient therapy, he found a home group and sponsor and begin working the 12 steps.
Now, more than seven years later, he has completed his Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling and has commenced the process of State licensure. Michael is certified as an addictions counselor both at the international and state level and became a Certified Recovery Peer Specialist in 2016. In 2017, Michael was approved to perform Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based modality for trauma therapy. Michael's life experience, blended with his extensive training, accounts for his trauma-focused, 12 step approach to Substance Abuse and Mental Health counseling. Michael joined the staff of River Oak Center in Fall, 2017. Michael believes that recovery is possible at any age, and that the teens from River Oak are the future leaders of America |