Interim House Recovery Home has provided residential treatment for men with substance use disorders in Dorchester, Massachusetts since 1972. We are a recovery home designed to help men with substance use disorders reintegrate into the community with meaningful employment opportunities, as reunified family members, and as community leaders. Interim House occupies a vital position in the continuum of care bridging the gap between acute detoxification services, incarceration, homelessness providing case management services, outpatient counseling, and supportive housing. Interim House Recovery Home maintains long-standing relationships with community health providers, social service agencies, and community-based mutual support groups in order to provide a network of support for our residents.
Interim House Recovery Home provides residents with individual and group substance use disorder counseling, life skills training, and substance-use relapse trigger identification and relapse prevention tools. Furthermore, we provide a safe place for residents to connect with primary care physicians, dental care services, and establish relationships with testing services designed to assist residents in seeking screening for the presence and need for treatment of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and other blood borne infections.
Measures of our clients’ successful outcomes of treatment are continuing abstinence from substance use, participation in mutual support recovery groups, continued participation in the Interim House aftercare counseling, viable employment, involvement in educational activities, and the acquisition of supportive housing. Moreover, collaborative relationships between Interim House Recovery Home and ancillary agencies provide support in aftercare planning and services including outpatient counseling, supportive and independent housing placement, and continued relapse prevention treatment.
Interim House Recovery Home provides services to individuals who have the greatest need for treatment and the fewest resources by offering treatment to the homeless population, drug court clients, and individuals recently incarcerated. Outreach efforts are made to programs and agencies that serve incarcerated persons, section 35 clients, HIV-positive individuals, and intravenous drug users. By reaching out to these community members priority can be assigned to those individuals who need services the most and are encountering barriers to entering treatment due to admission delays.
Since our beginning as a non-profit corporation on 1972, Interim House Recovery Home has been privileged to be a part of the recovery journey of hundreds of men with substance use disorders.
Over the years, we have seen many changes at Interim House Recovery Home. For example, the average age of the men who we serve has grown ever younger. As our population trends younger, we have incorporated evidence-based practices into our clinical interventions such as Relapse Prevention, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention. Moreover, the primary substance of misuse of our population has changed from mostly alcohol to a mixture of assorted substances including heroin and prescription opiates. With this reality, we have learned of the efficacy of medication-assisted treatment, the life saving benefit of nasal naloxone, and grown to understand the need to treat “the whole man” and not just his substance use disorder. Despite all of the changes that we have seen over the years, Interim House Recovery Home still serves men who are sick, hungry, and the homeless in our 18-bed Massachusetts Department of Public Health Licensed residential recovery home.
Interim House Recovery Home provides residents with individual and group substance use disorder counseling, life skills training, and substance-use relapse trigger identification and relapse prevention tools. Furthermore, we provide a safe place for residents to connect with primary care physicians, dental care services, and establish relationships with testing services designed to assist residents in seeking screening for the presence and need for treatment of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and other blood borne infections.
Measures of our clients’ successful outcomes of treatment are continuing abstinence from substance use, participation in mutual support recovery groups, continued participation in the Interim House aftercare counseling, viable employment, involvement in educational activities, and the acquisition of supportive housing. Moreover, collaborative relationships between Interim House Recovery Home and ancillary agencies provide support in aftercare planning and services including outpatient counseling, supportive and independent housing placement, and continued relapse prevention treatment.
Interim House Recovery Home provides services to individuals who have the greatest need for treatment and the fewest resources by offering treatment to the homeless population, drug court clients, and individuals recently incarcerated. Outreach efforts are made to programs and agencies that serve incarcerated persons, section 35 clients, HIV-positive individuals, and intravenous drug users. By reaching out to these community members priority can be assigned to those individuals who need services the most and are encountering barriers to entering treatment due to admission delays.
Since our beginning as a non-profit corporation on 1972, Interim House Recovery Home has been privileged to be a part of the recovery journey of hundreds of men with substance use disorders.
Over the years, we have seen many changes at Interim House Recovery Home. For example, the average age of the men who we serve has grown ever younger. As our population trends younger, we have incorporated evidence-based practices into our clinical interventions such as Relapse Prevention, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention. Moreover, the primary substance of misuse of our population has changed from mostly alcohol to a mixture of assorted substances including heroin and prescription opiates. With this reality, we have learned of the efficacy of medication-assisted treatment, the life saving benefit of nasal naloxone, and grown to understand the need to treat “the whole man” and not just his substance use disorder. Despite all of the changes that we have seen over the years, Interim House Recovery Home still serves men who are sick, hungry, and the homeless in our 18-bed Massachusetts Department of Public Health Licensed residential recovery home.