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Our transitional living home and extended care program offers safe and structured environments for teens and young adults in which our residents are able to maintain a meaningful and fun substance free way of life. Individualized coaching, educational and vocational training, life skills, and referrals and transportation to counselors and psycho therapists are ongoing elements of the transitional process. Sustain Recovery residences are twelve step based homes, and promote attendance of twelve step meetings by all of our residents.
At Sustain Recovery, we have observed repeated cases in which the drastic change from intensive inpatient treatment to unstructured sober living or immediately returning back home has resulted in relapse. This is especially true for young people, due to the difficult process of adjusting to independent living and the lack of internal structure. As we see it, the structure that was imposed on the individual in addiction treatment (the clinical schedule), cannot be sustained without ongoing attention to structure. We know that when the residents come into a transitional living environment, which initially provides the same degree of structure as treatment, the necessary healthy living skills can be (re)introduced and utilized in “real time”, in the real world, with the support and safety net of the Sustain Recovery staff and community.
Many times the teens and young adults going through this experience have dropped out of school, have legal issues secondary to their substance use, and are without a safe and sober environment to live. The need for a more structured transitional program geared towards young people that focuses on adult living skills, education, involvement in Twelve Step organizations and fun in recovery, is what is at the core of Sustain Recovery. As our residents are introduced to the opportunities to do worthwhile and esteem-able tasks, they develop self-worth and self-esteem.
