The Advanced Recovery Center's housing arrangement is consistent with ARC's commitment to provide a gender-relevant treatment environment. Additionally, although every ARC patient is required to attend a 12 Step meeting each day, men and women attend separate meetings whenever possible. Men and women are together consistently only at the treatment center, and ARC is committed to establishing a healthy balance between mixed and gender-specific educational and therapy groups. As more and more men are coming forward with childhood trauma issues and sexual confusion, gender separation becomes ever more important to providing a safe treatment environment, where both men and women can confidently address sensitive issues. As a transitional program, designed not only to address mental health and addictions issues, but to assist in establishing manageable lifestyles, ARC patients are provided the opportunity to do their own grocery shopping and prepare their own meals.
Patients are responsible for doing their own laundry and keeping their apartments clean.
Upon entering Phase II, patients put their new recovery and life skills into practice as they spend half the day engaged in part-time employment, education or volunteer work. All patients, regardless of Phase, are required to attend at least one 12 Step meeting daily. Advanced Recovery Center supervises patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Regardless of Phase, patients are required to comply with all ARC rules and curfews. All patients are accountable for their behaviors and are responsible for making certain that ARC knows their whereabouts at all times.