Advanced Recovery Services

I went here recently because of a ovi, it was a dumb move and it won’t happen again. There were two instructors and they both were pretty ghetto. That’s ok though, more on that later. the problem was we were a class of white educated adults in various careers and ages from 21 up to 55. All first offenders. The older black guy was friendly and funny. He interacted with the class and got us all (at least me) thinking.
The woman was nearly unbearable. She treated us as if we’re a group of black teenagers in a jail class. Her personality and vibe didn’t mix with our class of white professionals. It was almost comical, she would pause for like ten seconds between for dramatic effect even though no one really knew what she was rambling on about. Once she even rambled on about her grandkids for ten, count em, ten solid minutes. We in class we just kinda like ok… What? We are in here for a drivers intervention program. How did your grandkids come into this?
I was in recovery with AA for a while and she even fucked up the stories about Bill W and Dr. Silkworth. All the while dramatically pausing and telling people she «won’t take no mess» well, we’re all here by court order and have jobs to go to lady… No one needs to be warned! No ones giving you attitude why would we?!
Then, at the end of the weekend, she built up an introduction to a speaker they were planning to have, I was honestly excited to see first hand someone in recovery talk about their experiences, but more so not to hear her and her ghetto anger and «wisdom» then, at the end of her introduction she said «and that speaker was me!»
How fucking cheesy!
The food and motel were nice. Free wifi and flat screen tvs In every room. Nice breakfast every morning. You’re allowed to smoke too.
The videos they showed were actually pretty informative and helpful. I took some good things away from the program from the videos and the guy instructor. The woman was a joke. I’m sure she would be fine in the prison system or with young teens, but she was a terrible match for the class of non ghetto adults. She meant well, she really did. But she just didn’t impress anybody.