HOFH Elite Care Center Spotlight:Foundry Steamboat Treatment Center

By: HOFH

Foundry Steamboat Treatment Center, located in Steamboat Springs, CO, is a men’s program that provides comprehensive substance use, co-occurring mental health disorders, and integrated trauma treatment. The program focuses on a trauma-integrated care model to address the individual’s substance use disorder and the underlying effects of developmental trauma, PTSD, and adverse life events. Foundry prides itself on its guiding principles which prioritize client health and safety, clinical progress, learning, and the professional growth of its team members. To accomplish this, Foundry takes great care to serve its clients through a variety of innovative and dedicated services including residential, outpatient telehealth, and family services.

The residential program offers comprehensive and coordinated treatment including medical care, psychiatry, psychotherapy, fitness, and wellness. Coupled with this are gender-responsive and trauma-informed approaches making this program particularly helpful for men who have been unsuccessful in previous treatment.

“In addition to providing true trauma-informed care, we go a step further in our high standard of care with a central focus on wellness including diet, sleep, and fitness,” says Ben Cort, CEO of Foundry. “Our residents receive 15 hours per week of wellness services that help with critical issues like sleep but also with life skills such as how to cook on a budget or how to cook with leftovers. Anyone can stay sober when the doors are closed, so for us, it’s about what happens when that person leaves our program. When someone leaves residential treatment, it’s just the beginning of their recovery and so we have the prepare them for that day. To us, wellness is more than just an experience during our program, it’s setting the foundation for a new lifestyle.”

Intensive Outpatient Telehealth

The Foundry Outpatient Telehealth Program is geared towards men who are medically stable and have completed the necessary detoxification, inpatient psychiatric care, and/or residential treatment programs. While Foundry does provide a detox level of care they prefer to treat potentially medical complex detox with partner facilities in the city prior to moving to their rural location. Developed by Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Michael Barnes, the program is designed to make treatment more effective by addressing unresolved trauma, and providing support for learning how to lead a full and balanced lifestyle.

“Continuing care planning is extremely important,” adds Cort. “Your hand is held the entire time including in our alumni group.”

Putting Family First With The Family Institute

In addition to its residential and outpatient programs, Foundry is extremely proud of its family programs. The Michael Barnes Family Institute understands substance use and mental health disorders often also affect family members and loved ones. With that in mind, Foundry offers an intensive two-level telehealth program with the goal of facilitating positive changes in family systems while assisting in the process of healing for the entire family system. The services provided by the Institute are available to any family regardless of whether a member is receiving treatment. Level 101 provides multi-family programming while level 102 offers individual family coaching. The programs combine coaching, group work, and curriculum to teach families to safely and effectively communicate to address the root causes of dysfunctions while also creating recovery-supportive lifestyles.

Advocating for Athletes

Outside of the Foundry facility, Cort is heavily involved in working with athletes and professionals. He is an athlete wellness advocate and works to educate them through programs with the NFL including rookie camp training, supporting player engagement directors, and assisting with updating the wording in the most recent collective bargaining agreement.

“The commitment that organizations are making to player mental health and wellness is really good to see,” says Cort. “It’s encouraging to see psychology and psychiatry play a larger role in sports. It’s the right thing to do because it improves performance but it also eases human pain and suffering.”

In joining Hall of Fame Health (HOFH) Elite Care Centers, Foundry is looking forward to creating more conversations not just with athletes, but with the public.

“Any single person might influence the people around them, but when public figures speak up, those ripples are significant. When you see an athlete go from struggle to solution it makes it easy for people to do the same. Even so, I’m cautious about going public with your recovery too soon because I’ve seen it where the person now feels like they have to live up to unattainable perfection when in reality, you need a couple of years to just be. But when and if the time is appropriate to go public, that message can cast ripples around the whole world.”

“The team at Foundry are deeply committed to going above and beyond into the varied layers of recovery from addressing trauma to teaching wellness skills to supporting family healing,” says Ryan Cain, President of the behavioral health division for HOFH. “It is an absolute honor to welcome them as an Elite Care Center. We look forward to creating more ripples of wellness together.”

If treatment is something you or a loved one are considering, HOFH and Foundry encourage you to take the first step by making a phone call.

“You’re absolutely not alone. It can feel like you’re the only one in the whole world who gets it and no one can possibly understand you. But, you’re in really good company when

you come into Foundry,” says Cort. “It’s like we’re all survivors of the same shipwreck. There is tremendous camaraderie that exists there. you’re never alone. Even if you call us and your plan isn’t to come to our treatment center, the people on the other end of the phone will spend some real time with you to help you get the real help that you need. Just make the phone call.”

The HOFH Elite Care Centers is a network of elite facilities across the country that specialize in mental health and substance use disorder. Each treatment center is vetted and accredited to provide high-quality, customized care to former players and their families, veterans, and beyond. Financial aid options are available through Fund Recovery, which serves athletes, veterans, their families, and others seeking assistance for mental health or addiction issues.

For more information on Foundry, please visit https://www.hofhealth.com/elite-care-centers or call the HOFH concierge line at 866-404-HOFH.