Cee's Manor
Cee's Manor is a residential sanctuary for adult male substance abusers. Located at 120 N. Sangamon, in Chicago, and operated as a program of the McDermott Center, Cee's Manor offers open-ended stays to chronic abusers, requiring them to have had formal treatment and to pay in part for their room and board. The environment offers not only a quality of life that many residents feel is worth striving to maintain, but also a structured daily living, recreational activities and self-help group meetings that enable them to continue their sobriety. Residents are assisted with vocational training, and when appropriate, in finding other affordable housing.
Centralized Reintegration Program (CRP)
CRP is a recovery home program that provides a safe and stable living situation to assist residents in acquiring recovery living skills for re-integration into the general community. Women who have completed a residential treatment program progress to a recovery home environment where they can begin to re-learn like and vocational skills for independant living.
The goal of CRP program is to provide quality recovery home and supportive services recently incarcerated women who have a history of substance abuse and working on living in recovery
Population served: Females and their children.
Potential residents must have completed a substance abuse treatment program within the previous 6 months, and living in Chicago or homeless.
Age Groups served: Residents must be 18 years and older
Average length of stay: Upto 6-8 weeks, although long term living is available for chronic abusers.
Women participating in this program are required to participate in outpatient treatment, Health Ed services and are required to address permanency planning. Additional ancillary services may be required for clients and are to be documented on individual service plans.
Men's Recovery Home
Transitional living program of aftercare for men who have become homeless due to alcoholism/drug addiction. The safe alcohol/drug free environment includes initial application interview, intake and assessment, development of applicant plan, structured days, balanced meals, rehabilitative work training, individual recovery and spiritual counseling. Clients who have little or no ability to pay for services pay a sliding scale fee till they become employed.
Program components:
1. Group/individual counseling sessions
2. On-site drug screening
3. Recreational therapy
4. Family counseling
5. Job counseling and job placement
6. GED preparation and referral
7. Case management
8. Self-help involvement.
Sangamon House
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A residential facility, the Sangamon House Recovery Home, is available at Haymarket Center to recovering women who need further treatment to maintain their sobriety. They may bring their children up to age 4 1/2 to live with them.
They pay an affordable fee, on a sliding scale, for residential living. The amount a percentage of the client's income from welfare or regular employment.
In addition to outpatient aftercare services, residents are encouraged to attend school, assisted with job search for employment and may also take part in the Haymarket Center apprentice program. They have the primary responsibility for their children, and so must arrange for day-care or babysitting during school or work periods.
Child development specialists are available to provide assistance with identified developmental issues of their children, and family education is a primary focus for all clients.
Residents have private rooms with beds for one or more children living with them. Older children may visit on weekends. Clients share common areas for meals and recreation.
Cultural enrichment is made available frequently through attendance at special events.
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