With the unique pressures faced by active duty service members, addressing both mental health and substance use disorders simultaneously is essential. Our dual-diagnosis treatment at New Method Wellness provides a comprehensive and effective approach, reducing the risk of relapse and empowering military personnel toward sustainable recovery.
Dear Service Members,
As the CEO of New Method Wellness and a 15-year veteran of the military, I understand the unique challenges you face. Military service is an honor, but the pressures and sacrifices can take a toll.
At New Method Wellness, we are committed to supporting your recovery journey. My hands-on leadership and personalized care ensure that every service member receives the highest level of attention and respect.
Our integrated dual-diagnosis approach treats both substance abuse and underlying mental health conditions simultaneously. This comprehensive care model addresses all aspects of your well-being, helping you achieve lasting recovery and a brighter future.
You are not alone—New Method Wellness is here to support you every step of the way.
Sincerely,
Ed Blum
We are accredited by the Joint Commission and are a credentialed TriCare West provider. Beginning January 1, 2025, we proudly extend our services to active duty military personnel and their families under TriCare West.
At New Method Wellness, we understand the demands of military life. Our treatment programs are designed to address the specific needs of active duty personnel, recognizing the unique challenges of balancing service responsibilities with personal well-being.
Our team includes veterans and civilians trained in military culture, PTSD, and addiction recovery. We offer trauma-informed care, focusing on addressing root causes and building self-empowerment.
As your treatment concludes, we’ll help create a personalized aftercare plan. Our team coordinates with military resources and support services to ensure continued success in your recovery journey.
At New Method Wellness, we honor your service by providing the care you deserve. Reach out to us today and take the first step toward healing and recovery.
The often-overlooked heroes of military life are the spouses, children, and parents who support service members from home. These family members face unique challenges and stressors that can significantly impact their mental health and increase the risk of substance use. Spouses frequently sacrifice their own careers and ambitions to adapt to the frequent relocations that come with military service. These relocations often disrupt established support systems, leaving families to rebuild their networks with each move.
Deployments bring additional strain, placing the full weight of childcare and household responsibilities on the spouse at home. Meanwhile, the uncertainty and worry about their loved one’s safety during overseas assignments add an emotional burden.
Research highlights that military spouses are at higher risk for mental health issues and alcohol use compared to the general population. Similarly, children in military families are more likely to engage in behaviors such as binge drinking, marijuana use, and prescription medication misuse. Ensuring these families have access to comprehensive mental health and addiction treatment services is crucial for their well-being.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email juanita@newmethodwellness.com
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to juanita@newmethodwellness.com