Resettlement

What to expect

On admission to re-settlement you will initially have to complete the Licence Agreement, this is a standard document, which is similar to a tenancy agreement, except that if a client should return to using they can be asked to leave in the interest of the other clients. Your tenancy is dependant on remaining abstinent. This does also ensure that as a client you will be living in an abstinent environment. Once this is done, any relevant benefit claims will also be completed with the assistance of staff.

You will then be given your keys and the general running of the house will be explained. There are therapeutic duties in the communal areas, if everyone does one job, the house remains clean and pleasant for everyone who lives there. You will be introduced to which ever residents are in at the time and left to settle in. Unlike treatment, from here you are free to organise your own time. You will be given an appointment to see your key worker in the first couple of days, to help you to organise your time and to sort out any initial difficulties, like the location of services or whom to contact about practical matters and set some goals for you to work towards, such as joining a local gym or choosing a home meeting. Each week, in the houses there is a house meeting, this is where problems can be brought up, from simple practical things such as dirty mugs, to concerns about a fellow resident, to requests for work to be done on the house to changing who does which TD.

As the time in Re-settlement progresses, we expect you to become more comfortable with organising your own time, money, eating and leisure activities, to give you a firm foundation to move back into the community at large.