Program Purpose
 

The purpose of our recovery home is to provide a safe, stable, substance-free, and supportive residential environment for adults who are committed to establishing and maintaining a life in recovery.

The home serves as a bridge between the need for structure and the development of greater independence. Through peer support, shared responsibility, accountability, healthy routines, and connection to community resources, residents are provided with an environment in which they can strengthen their recovery while developing the skills and stability necessary to successfully manage their own lives.

The recovery home is not intended to replace clinical treatment, medical care, mental health services, or other professional services that a resident may need. Rather, the home provides a recovery-supportive living environment and encourages residents to establish and maintain appropriate connections with outside recovery, healthcare, employment, educational, spiritual, and community resources according to their individual needs and goals.

Our purpose is not simply to provide temporary housing. It is to create a community in which residents have the opportunity to practice recovery principles in everyday life, assume responsibility for themselves, develop healthy relationships, establish greater stability, and prepare for successful independent living.

 
Program Objectives
 

To fulfill this purpose, the recovery home seeks to:
 

1. Maintain a Safe and Substance-Free Environment
 

Maintain a living environment that supports recovery by establishing clear expectations regarding alcohol, illicit substances, inappropriate behavior, safety, and conduct within the home.
 

2. Support Individual Recovery
 

Encourage each resident to develop, maintain, and actively participate in a recovery pathway appropriate to their individual needs, beliefs, circumstances, and goals.
 

3. Encourage Personal Responsibility

 

Provide residents with opportunities to take increasing responsibility for their choices, behavior, finances, schedules, commitments, living space, and overall direction of their lives.
 

4. Promote Accountability
 

Establish clear and consistent expectations that encourage residents to honor commitments, accept responsibility for their actions, communicate honestly, and understand how individual choices affect the entire household.
 

5. Strengthen Peer Support
 

Create opportunities for residents to develop healthy relationships with others in recovery and to experience the value of mutual encouragement, shared experience, appropriate accountability, and positive peer connection.
 

6. Develop Independent Living Skills
 

Encourage residents to strengthen practical skills necessary for independent living, including maintaining a clean living environment, managing personal responsibilities, budgeting, meal planning, transportation, scheduling, problem-solving, and other activities of daily life.
 

7. Encourage Employment, Education, and Productive Activity
 

Support residents in pursuing employment, education, vocational development, volunteer service, or other meaningful and productive activities consistent with their abilities and individual circumstances.
 

8. Promote Financial Responsibility
 

Encourage residents to develop responsible financial habits, meet their financial obligations, establish appropriate budgets, address outstanding responsibilities when possible, and begin preparing financially for greater independence.
 

9. Encourage Healthy Relationships and Boundaries
 

Provide an environment where residents can practice respectful communication, conflict resolution, appropriate boundaries, cooperation, and consideration for others.
 

10. Strengthen Community Connection
 

Encourage residents to establish healthy connections outside the home through recovery communities, employment, education, volunteer activities, faith or spiritual communities when personally desired, recreation, family relationships when appropriate, and other positive community resources.
 

11. Support Personal Growth and Purpose
 

Encourage residents to identify personal strengths, establish meaningful goals, develop healthy interests, rebuild confidence, and begin creating a life that provides purpose and supports continued recovery.
 

12. Prepare Residents for Successful Transition
 

Encourage residents to plan for the future throughout their residency rather than waiting until departure. Transition planning may include identifying stable housing, developing financial resources, strengthening recovery and community supports, maintaining employment or education, and establishing routines that can continue after leaving the home.
 

13. Respect Individual Dignity and Choice
 

Maintain an environment in which residents are treated fairly and respectfully and are encouraged to participate actively in decisions affecting their recovery and future. Differences in background, beliefs, and individual recovery pathways should be respected so long as they remain compatible with the safety, substance-free standards, and responsibilities of the recovery community.
 

Desired Outcome
 

The desired outcome of the program is for residents to leave the recovery home with more than a period of abstinence. We seek to have residents leave with a stronger recovery foundation, greater personal responsibility, improved independent living skills, healthier relationships and support systems, increased financial and vocational stability, and a realistic plan for maintaining recovery and independence within the community.
 

Success is ultimately reflected not simply in completing a period of residency, but in developing the ability to build and sustain a healthy, responsible, meaningful life in recovery.