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Association of Intervention Specialists
The Association of Intervention Specialists (AIS) is a network of interventionists located throughout the country and abroad.
Members guide families and friends, business executives, and others through the intervention process whereby a person addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs and compulsive behaviors is encouraged to accept help.
All full members are Certified Intervention Professionals, thereby meeting or exceeding educational and performance standards. All members adhere to the AIS Code of Ethics.
Message From Our Chair
If you’ve found yourself here, chances are, someone you care about is in trouble and you’re looking for help. Within AIS, you’ll find a global network of highly qualified, well-trained, compassionate, and caring professionals who specialize in helping those suffering the effects of addictions, behavioral challenges, and mental illness. We work across the United States, Canada, and abroad. Our website provides you with valuable information and resources to make sure you are working with the right person.
When you love someone with substance abuse and mental health disorders there is no doubt…it is heartbreaking. It’s hard to watch them struggle in that lonely space, repeating the same behaviors and experiencing the painful consequences over, and over again. We understand how emotionally exhausting it is.
Naturally you want to do everything in your power to help, but navigating how to best help them can be completely overwhelming on your own. You’ve most likely considered various approaches such as… should you confront them directly, or ignore it and hope things will get better on their own? You also worry if you confront them how it will be received…will you risk your relationship by speaking up, or cause confrontation? Maybe you’ve already tried confronting the situation several times without success. It is even more challenging if your loved one may not feel that change is necessary, or simply just doesn’t want to stop using. This is why we’re here!
A professional interventionist has been specialty trained and credentialed in helping families and their loved ones struggling with substance use disorders, process disorders, and mental health issues. Hiring a Certified Intervention Professional (CIP) ensures you are hiring a seasoned frontline professional who has exceeded educational and performance standards and who can directly engage an individual and family to help guide them to treatment and beyond.
Our Members Must be Credentialed
Members in our organization hold the credentials of (CIP) Certified Intervention Professional or a Canadian Certified Intervention Professional (CCIP). These are the only governing credentials for this profession, provided by the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB) and Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF). Our members are globally recognized, and available to any demographic area in which the potential clients are located.
A professional interventionist has been specialty trained and credentialed in helping families and their loved ones struggling with substance use disorders, process disorders, and mental health issues. Hiring a Certified Intervention Professional (CIP) ensures you are hiring a seasoned frontline professional who has exceeded educational and performance standards and who can directly engage an individual and family to help guide them to treatment and beyond.
Members in our organization hold the credentials of (CIP) Certified Intervention Professional or a Canadian Certified Intervention Professional (CCIP). These are the only governing credentials for this profession, provided by the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB) and Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF). Our members are globally recognized, and available to any demographic area in which the potential clients are located.
Setting the Standards of Excellence
AIS continues to work closely with the PA Certification Board to ensure the field of intervention services provides quality, ethical treatment.
Leaders in the Industry
AIS continues to provide leadership to all stakeholders within the field of intervention services, through ongoing training, public education and support.
Establishing Ethical Guidelines
AIS continues to fight for ethical intervention practices, through the establishment of a stringent Code of Ethics, by which all AIS members must adhere.
Choosing the Right Interventionist
Intervention rates vary depending on what services are utilized to tailor and meet the needs of the client and their loved ones. We know that the cost far outweighs the worry and mental anguish that comes with addiction and mental health. In today’s ongoing mental health and the drug crisis, we can’t wait for rock bottom. Rock bottom too often means death or other permanent damage which can’t be undone.
What to Ask:
- What is your level of training, education, and certification?
- What Model of Intervention do you practice?
- What is your success rate?
- How do we choose the right treatment and treatment program?
- What types of follow up are included?
- What happens after the intervention?
- What all is included in the cost?
- Ask for professional references.
What to look out for:
- Self-promotion, boastful character, and exaggerated talking on social media platform.
- A person that continues to go against professional standards.
- Making ethical recommendations without actively facilitation of assessments for clients.
- Promising outcomes and intervention guarantees are not best evidence practices.
- Overpowering direction, making judgement statements, and condescending attitude.
- Negative reviews.
- Receiving any kickback, bribe, or rebate in exchange for treatment referrals.
Ours are a globally recognized credential and available to intervention specialists regardless of the country or US state in which they live or work. Being credentialed displays competency and recognizes the holder’s achievement of professional education, training, and experience necessary to provide quality addiction and mental health services to families needing help. A full member of AIS will have obtained an CIP / CCIP certification meeting PCB and CACCF application requirements, education prerequisites and 4000 hours of direct work experience in the field of addiction and mental health.