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Supportive Living Program
 

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.


Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services
Supportive Living Program

334 West State St.
P.O. Box 789
Ithaca, NY 14851

1-607-273-5500 (Tel.)
1-607-273-1277 (Fax)