What is a Recovery Home?
What is a Recovery Home?Recovery homes provide opportunities for individuals in early recovery or those who have the desire to continue their recovery journey in a sober environment. Individuals may come from a residential treatment center to continue their recovery. Recovery homes are free from alcohol and drugs.
Recovery homes provide a safe place, compassionate people, and a life full of purpose and fun that doesn’t involve alcohol or drugs. Recovery homes seek to make the transition into the community smoother and successful for each individual.
Sinnissippi Center’s Dixon Recovery Home
Sinnissippi Recovery Homes are SUPR licensed outpatient treatment facilities that provide oversight to residents 24/7. Residents attend treatment and implement sober living skills with other people in early recovery. The Recovery Homes are currently available to adult men and adult women who struggle with a substance use disorder to assist in their long-term recovery.
Sinnissippi Center’s Amboy Recovery Home
The average length of stay can vary based on the needs of the individual, typically 6 to 9 months on average.
Do I need Sober Living?
Sober living homes offer an in-between recovery option that allows you to reinforce the lessons learned in residential treatment. When you returned home did you struggle with the cravings and urges to return to substance use? Do you need a more structured environment with additional supports.
For people in early recovery from addiction, there is so much to regain and recover in order to rebuild their lives. The Recovery Home is a therapeutic living environment and a place to practice recovery skills while living in a sober, safe, and structured living environment.
What You Need to Know About residing at the Recovery Home:
- Adherence to recovery structure and program guidelines
- No possession or use of alcohol or other illicit substances
- Attendance at 12 step/alternative support meetings
- Have or work toward a legitimate means of financial support (work, public assistance, social security, etc.)
- Monthly program fees made in a timely manner
- Intensive Outpatient Group treatment and After Care
- Case management and individual counseling
- Cooperative and harmonious living in the house
- Participation in cleaning of the apartment and common living areas
- Respect toward agency and peers’ personal property
- Maintenance of your personal wellness and relapse prevention skills
- Learning daily living skills to maintain balance and structure in one’s recovery
Benefits of living in a recovery home
- Alcohol and drug free living environment
- Ongoing recovery education
- Linkage with any needed community support agencies
- Recovery peer support and fellowship for ongoing recovery
- Sober, social activities to decrease isolation and build one’s social network
- Assistance in job search and/or continuation of educational goals
- Assistance with budgeting and money management to promote savings for future independent living
- Opportunity to enhance knowledge and skills to enjoy a rewarding recovery program
- Develop and enhance leadership skills
- Opportunity for friendships and fellowship opportunities that frequently continue after moving out
- Stable housing during the stress of early recovery
- Knowledgeable staff that help in all aspect of recovery
