Transitional Housing Gives Stability

Since 1987 Cabrini Partnership's transitional house has been a starting point of many individual success stories.

For single adults who want to participate in supportive communal living to enhance their emerging sobriety and mental health recovery, the Transitional Housing Program offers the chance to live in a beautiful, safe and sober home with others who share their dreams and aspirations. Along with strengthening their chemical and mental health, participants work closely with Cabrini Partnership case managers to develop the interpersonal, educational, employment and life management skills needed to succeed in the future.

Cabrini Partnership’s Transitional Housing Program is flexible enough to address individual needs while also offering the consistency that characterizes stability.

Program staff thoroughly assesses the needs and capabilities of all applicants to ensure that our programs are the most suitable programs for their needs. Accepted applicants must demonstrate they are:

• Motivated to make realistic changes in their lives
• Amenable to community living and being supportive of other residents
• Not a danger to the health or safety of other residents

If you would like to learn more about our Transitional Housing Program, please contact us.

Life in Cabrini Partnership
The Transitional Housing Program offers a safe, sober and homelike environment where residents are transported from the dangerous climate of street life to a secure base for building a new life. The facility is staffed 24 hours a day to safeguard residents. New residents are assigned a senior resident-buddy who introduces them to the other residents, the facility and the neighborhood.

After Move-in
Within two weeks of arrival, residents are expected to begin advancing through productive activity outside the residence. An Achievement Plan is established to get residents on a path to their goals. Those residents who do not have a high school diploma are required to work toward a GED; some residents attend college or technical school and others get jobs. Residents who are too disabled to hold employment participate through a combination of 30 hours of volunteer work and therapeutic programming each week.

Available Resources
A variety of resources, including our professional staff, are available to assist our residents as they work toward their goals.

• Case managers help residents find appropriate support for their mental health and sobriety.
• Weekly community meetings keep our “family” of residents focused on their responsibilities to each other and provide a forum for setting community standards and resolving conflicts.
• Alumni night dinners give residents a chance to interact with peers who have successfully transitioned to independence.
• Bus passes are provided to assure residents’ transportation to all the activities required to accomplish their Achievement Plans.
• Cabrini Partnership’s food service coordinator prepares three balanced meals each day, and healthy snacks are readily available.
• We also collectively plan holidays and special events.

Residents help with household chores including lawn care, kitchen clean-up, vacuuming of shared spaces and household laundry. While each resident spends significant time pursuing the goals outlined in his or her Achievement Plan, there’s plenty of time to relax in the house. Shared space includes a recreation area with television, books, magazines and computers. The living and dining rooms offer quiet space where residents can talk, read, play board games and enjoy the support of peers.

Case Management
Residents work directly with a Cabrini Partnership case manager to develop and implement a comprehensive Achievement Plan. The case manager is responsible for providing support and motivation in helping the resident to develop their Achievement Plan and to help the resident access the needed resources identified in the plan. Case managers also monitor, verify and evaluate residents’ progress in each category during weekly meetings with residents. Each Achievement Plan includes:

• Identification and use of personal strengths to achieve goals.
• Mental health plans that specify actions to be coordinated with their mental health professionals. Medication routines are initiated. Crisis plans are developed.
• Chemical health plans that identify support groups and sponsor meetings to be attended each week. Relapse prevention actions are developed.
• Physical health plans that specify actions to improve physical health, including exercise plans.
• Education/employment plans that specify how and when residents will become financially independent. GED programs are mandatory for residents without a high school diploma.
• Family/relationship plans that specify actions to strengthen healthy ties to family and friends.
• Reunification with children plans. Residents’ children are allowed visits in a child friendly setting when family reunification is a resident goal. Referrals are made to parenting classes.
• Housing plans that specify actions and accomplishments to be addressed to access and/or manage safe, affordable housing.

Transportation
Bus passes are provided to all residents to ensure they have transportation to all the activities being addressed in the Achievement Plan.

Financial Literacy Program
A volunteer financial literacy coordinator conducts ongoing training, workshops and field trips designed to increase residents’ abilities to manage their finances independently. The Financial Literacy Computer Lab at Cabrini Partnership includes two computers with Internet access with money management software and a library of materials related to financial literacy.

Building a Sober Community
The Transitional Housing Program stresses the importance of being an active community member in the home and in the greater community. Residents build and learn to interact in a sober community by participating in:

• Weekly community meetings focused on discussing their responsibility to others
• Resident facilitated AA meetings
• Coordination of household chores
• Group holiday planning
• Group event and recreation planning
• Mediation exercises to resolve conflicts
• Volunteer opportunities in the greater community
• Alumni night dinner with Cabrini Partnership “graduates”
• Peer support