Ic Clean People Recovery Housing

Emergency Shelter (ES) program that takes in homeless men with substance abuse problems who have nowhere else to turn to. There are at least 50+ programs for women, women with children, children and seniors but, to our knowledge, there are no free programs to help adult males obtain clean and sober shelter in a family style home.
There are more than 50+ programs that are focused on helping women, women with children, children and seniors, but none designed to help adult males outside of drug court or the regular court system. We can think of no free programs designed to help adult males outside of the legal system. If an adult male doesn’t have insurance and loses employment there is no place to go. Substance abuse often leads to loss of employment. We are seeing a large number of opiate and meth abuse in our new clients. If these people end up in jail we know the cost of incarceration for one year is $47,085 per year. The cost to society when the addict is using living on the street is much higher.  We would like to offer a last chance to adult male substance abusers.
1) The program objective will be to help adult male substance abusers get clean and sober outside of the legal system. If we can help our client to avoid the legal system a get clean and sober without the cost of drug court, jail and police intervention we can show a dramatic saving for the City of Everett. 2) Program components will be 30 meetings at AA, NA, CA, etc. in 60 days. UA’s will be administered randomly to enforce sobriety. Intensive job searching will be required. Mandatory attendance at any continuing education classes required for job placement or improving job skills. Participation in house meetings and daily chores will also be mandatory. Behavior, attitude and willingness to conform to normal everyday life will be closely watched and graded. We will use any and every agency with which we have relations to enhance the client’s chances to become a productive member of our community. Daily goal setting will be encouraged. 3) Who will we serve?  Our target is adult males who still have and want a chance at getting free of the trap of substance abuse.  We will closely screen our candidates. We will be looking for that spark that shows they really want to get clean and sober. 4) Our service will be 24/7 in one of our homes. 5) The service we offer will be enhanced by all the services provided by the agencies we listed in Section A / Coordination of this grant. All medical/ professional services will be provided by third party providers.

Inmates from 5 state correctional institutions are given an early release if their behavior warrants it. They are released with $40 and a bus ticket. We pick the client up at the bus station. We take them to one of our homes and start the reintegration into society right away. We try to limit the free time where the client could get into trouble by long hours of intensive treatment. They are required to attend classes several times per week. These classes are several hours each. We provide feedback to DOC on behavior, class attendance, UA results and how the client is adjusting to a responsible lifestyle. At our home  we provide furnished rooms with cable TV, WiFi and hard wired internet access, help setting up and accessing email accounts for employment purposes, local/long distant phone services, all utilities paid (heat, water, sewer, electric, garbage and gas) and full service laundry facilities including ironing (important for job interviews). We also help clients find transportation, entitlements, food supplies and free/ low cost clothing. We also help with employment through Work Source; Help with computer literacy through classes at VOA. There are many other helpful classes offered at Work Source and VOA and we help clients attend them. We also help clients staying clean and sober through various programs (NA, AA, CA etc.) offered free at many treatment facilities.