Please select the links
below to print out copies of our Supportive Living Program
admission requirements and applicable documents.
Supportive Living Program Description PDF
Supportive Living Program Principles and Agreements PDF
Supportive Living Admission Packet PDF
Cayuga
Addiction Recovery Services has a Supportive Living Program with
a maximum capacity of fourteen clients. There are four apartments
with two to five clients each.
Supportive
Living is a supervised sober housing program which requires clients
to be engaged in concurrent outpatient treatment at an approved
OASAS licensed outpatient clinic.
To
be eligible for admission to the Supportive Living Program, prospective
participants must meet the following criteria:
1. Referred by a Chemical Dependency Treatment Program with a
recommendation for this level of care.
2. Have a diagnosis of alcohol dependency or alcohol abuse or
polysubstance abuse with one of the substances being alcohol.
3. Be 21 years of age or older and be a U.S. citizen.
4. Have been abstinent from alcohol and mood altering drugs for
a minimum of three months, with the exception of those medications
prescribed by a physician for treatment of a co-existing mental
or physical illness, or no usage of alcohol and mood altering
drugs since completion of an inpatient chemical dependency program.
5. Have a history of inability to remain abstinent in independent
housing
6. Be able to exercise adequate community living skills when abstinent.
7. Be able to remain abstinent with peer group support.
8. Is not actively suicidal or homicidal.
9. Is not actively psychotic.
10. Be willing to remain actively involved in a 12-step program
that includes sponsorship.
11. Become involved in constructive activity as outlined in the
participant's service plan.
12. Agrees to be actively engaged in treatment at the Cayuga Addiction
Recovery Services Supportive Living Program while also engaging
in treatment in our Outpatient Clinic or another OASAS licensed
outpatient clinic.
No
person shall be denied admission to the Supportive Living Program
on the basis of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin,
sexual orientation, or handicapping condition. Additionally, no
person shall be denied admission, be terminated or have his/her
services reduced, limited, or otherwise affected negatively or
his/her status changed solely on the basis of such person's actual,
presumed, or alleged HIV-related condition or status.
