Along with the case management identified above, the treatment experience at Phoenix House involves other educational and therapeutic experiences. Clients also attended weekend groups on Saturday and Sundays as per the weekly schedule. Clients at Phoenix House are required to complete daily homework assignments documenting feelings, incidents of caring and sharing with other peers, positive they identify in themselves throughout the day, confrontations of incidents where they pointed out positive or negative behaviors in others as well as one example of loss of control of their use. Clients also are required to complete weekly homework assignments on pertinent AODA issues. These weekly homework assignments are components of the treatment plan and a client is required to document their personal relating to the assignment.
All daily homework is reviewed by the case manager and discussed in weekly one to one sessions.
Clients at Phoenix House are required to attend mandatory support meetings in the community on Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Phoenix House makes available to clients transportation to these meetings as well as providing its facilities to a support meeting on Thursday nights for residents and community members to attend. Phoenix House also offers a Domestic Abuse Intervention Project Group on Wednesday nights that is based on the Duluth Model. Two staff members were trained in this model and conduct these groups. This group is offered to court referrals and all clients that have been found to have a history of abuse through the assessment process or at any time during their treatment is is identified then a separate assessment for the DAIP group is conducted and if appropriate the client is required to participate in this group.