Residential Programs
Recovery Network’s residential program is an intensive 6-12 month treatment program with a current capacity of approximately one hundred-ten (110) beds in nine separate facilities. These facilities are halfway houses of varying size and bed capacity. Each facility is a structured recovery environment and is staffed 24 hours per day and seven days per week. Individuals placed in residential care are in need of a safe and stable environment conducive to their recovery process. Residential care affords the resident the opportunity to practice recovery skills on a regular basis. Services are provided both in the individual houses as well as Recovery Network’s main clinical office. The program is based on the disease concept of chemical dependency and twelve-step recovery programs. The primary goal for each patient is re-entry back into the community. Each resident has a treatment program tailored to his personal situation and individual needs. Residential treatment includes an in-depth bio-psychosocial assessment and treatment planning; individual and group counseling; dual diagnosis evaluation and treatment; referrals for rehabilitation and educational training; coordination of aftercare treatment services; and assistance in utilization of community resources for employment, medical or legal issues. We offer two levels of care based on ASAM placement criteria - Level III.1 and Level III.3. The primary difference between these two levels of care is the intensity of the services offered.
Level III.1, or Low Intensity Clinically Managed Residential, provides a structured living environment with low intensity professional addiction treatment services of at least five hours per week. Treatment is directed toward applying recovery skills, preventing relapse, promoting personal responsibility, and reintegrating the person onto the worlds of work, education, and family life. These services minimally include relapse prevention, life skills, case management, urinalysis and other forms of drug testing, and NA/AA attendance. While in the program, residents move through phases of treatment, from admission to discharge. Each resident has a treatment program tailored to his personal situation and individual needs.
Level III.3, or Medium Intensity Clinically Managed Residential, provides a structured living environment with medium intensity professional addiction treatment services of 9-20 hours per week. Individuals referred for Level III.3 services generally have severe deficits in interpersonal and emotional coping skills that prevent outpatient treatment from being effective. The pace of the clinical program at this level is slower, more repetitive, and more intense than Level III.1 services. Among the population of these residential patients are a higher percentage of biomedical problems and co-occurring mental health disorders. While treatment services are directed in a similar fashion as in our Level III.1 residential program, more of our 25 core services are provided in Level III.3. Reintegration of Level III.3 residents is directed more toward community based programs and publically funded agencies supporting housing, vocational services, transportation assistance, financial assistance, and self-help groups.
For both residential programs, Recovery Network has maintained a strong network of recovering individuals in the local community who are very active in engaging and supporting our residents in a 12-step program. In addition, all residents are required to attend daily twelve-step meetings in the community and are encouraged to develop a recovery network prior to their discharge. We also believe in “giving back to the community,” and therefore, in both levels of residential care, every resident is required to provide thirty (30) hours of community service of varying type to organizations and agencies prior to successful completion of the program.
Recovery Network encourages all eligible residents to seek employment within ninety days of admission. Residents receiving or filing for disability, and those who are enrolled in school are granted a waiver of this requirement
Recovery Network further espouses that the most successful treatment is that which produces the least disruption in the life of the abuser or his family. Thus, whenever possible, prolonged residential care with the resultant loss from work, financial and social disruption, and family demoralization is to be avoided. In view of this, we place an emphasis on developing relationships and maintaining contacts with community resources and referrals, thus allowing us to collaborate with re-entry agencies and case managers.