Second Wind founder Grace Sablan poses for a photo with Benedict Salvador, Managing Director of HR Architects, and Women and Men of Destiny members.
SECOND Wind, a non-profit organization that serves individuals suffering from drug addiction, mental health issues, and other social behavioral matters, will soon open an outpatient treatment facility, co-founder and therapist Grace Sablan said.
The facility will provide different levels of drug and alcohol treatments, whether intensive outpatient or regular outpatient services, based on assessment, Sablan added.
Their facility will cater to substance abuse, mental health, homelessness as well as domestic violence, sexual abuse, and human trafficking victims.
They will also provide these services to CNMI law enforcers, Sablan said.
“We do not have these kinds of services for our frontliners, so we are now also going to target that population,” she added. “We aim to provide services that are lacking on the island. Our facility will also be providing detox. We don’t have sober homes or safehouses so our organization will work with the Domestic Violence Coalition, Karidat and others in bringing in services that are lacking on island so we don’t have to send individuals off-island,” she said.
Sablan said Second Wind’s clinicians “will be required to have a master’s degree and above in fields like substance abuse, family and individual therapy, or mental health. The treatment center will have highly qualified individuals.”
She said they will also partner with Women of Destiny and the soon-to-be-chartered Men of Destiny to provide interventions for those out on the streets and suffering from addiction.
The goal is to have a soft opening of the facility in April, Sablan added.
On Tuesday, Benedict Salvador, managing director of the Philippine-based HR Architects, conducted a team-building training session with the Women and Men of Destiny.
“We are a management consulting company,” Salvador said. “We conduct training and human resource development sessions as well as corporate events.”
He said the team-building training session he conducted on Tuesday will help participants “work cohesively as one.”
“We want the participants to get out of their comfort zones and know each other, so that when they work together, they will be able to achieve the aims of the organization,” he added.
