Re-entry helps the resident maintain his recovery and build new positive responses into lasting habits. Emphasis is placed on increasing self worth, self esteem and family values. As the resident progresses through the phase system, privileges are acquired as rewards for productive and constructive hard work. Along with these privileges comes added responsibility. Education and vocational programs are an important part of treatment.
Instruction is provided in tutorial, small and whole group classes.
The education program is an innovative and individualized learning experience that helps the resident function successfully as an adult. By its design, a therapeutic community stimulates, in a highly controlled and structured fashion, the experience of the larger society. It requires the flexibility to create an environment where the substance abuser must confront emotional and practical problems to produce a reordering of lifestyle and achieve a satisfying and productive drug-free existence. History The DART Parole and Probation Residential Program, known as DART-Cherry, opened in 1989 providing the Parole Commission a treatment option for DWI offenders. Today the Parole and Post-Release Supervision Commission may require an offender to receive treatment at the facility as a condition of parole or the courts may require treatment there as a condition of probation.