Maddie Jackson, CAC.

Coordinator of Clinical Services at the HERO Program in Opelousas, Louisiana

Madeline Jackson is a Certified Addictions Counselor in the state of Louisiana. She holds bachelor’s degrees in both Psychology and Criminology from Auburn University. She has experience with graduate research on the rehabilitation of juvenile sex offenders in the state of Alabama and presenting research material used to help change Alabama legislature. She is the current Coordinator of Clinical Services at the HERO Program in Opelousas, Louisiana. HERO Program assists United States veterans and active-duty personnel at a residential program sitting on 22 acres of property. The Hero Program serves those with specific issues experienced by service members. Those include chemical addiction, PTSD, depression, moral injury, anxiety, and other co-occurring disorders related to military service and combat, as well as other lifetime experiences that prevent personal and spiritual growth.  Madeline’s main concern is creating a sacred space to allow the healing process to occur at deeper levels to maintain long term recovery potential. Madeline oversees the moral injury curriculum, weaving this in and out of services provided. Veterans enter the program learning about the general concepts at a macro level and get invited to bring this philosophy into deeper, more micro levels. Whether this is participating in a small, moral injury process group, or engaging individually with trauma-informed clinicians through brainspotting and EMDR modalities, veterans learn how to cope and adjust to varying degrees of shame, grief, loss, anger, and related emotions through the moral repair process. The program looks to enhance the quality of veterans’ lives through engaging in deeper, more connected, meaningful perspectives of life and applying these more spiritual perspectives into unresolved conflict.