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Transitional Housing in North Carolina

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Bookmark this page if you are interested in a listing of transitional housing programs in North Carolina. The list will focus on halfway houses, three quarter houses, and therapeutic communities designed for recovering alcoholics and addicts. It will include family care homes, homeless shelters, group homes for the mentally ill, and other forms of transitional housing as well. The site will be of interest to substance abuse professionals, advocates for the elderly, the mentally ill, and the homeless, or any one needing information about transitional housing resources in North Carolina.

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I will start by publishing a simple list. When this is completed, I will construct a searchable database that will make it easier to retrieve the information you need.

When I use the terms "halfway house, three quarter house, etc." I am using them as I understand them. The meanings of these terms can and will change from state to state, region to region, or even treatment center to treatment center. For this reason, for the purpose of this website, I will include the following definitions of these terms as I understand them

     

  1. Halfway House -A halfway house is a structured living situation for folks addicted to alcohol or other drugs. It has a paid staff, director, and a curfew. There are usually mandatory house meetings as well as mandatory 12 step meetings ( AA, NA, CA, MA, etc.) in the community. Most halfway houses require residents to be able and willing to work 40 hours a week, and most provide meals. Threre are usually chores assigned to each resident, and often each resident must provide a urine drug screen upon demand. These houses can range anywhere from 4 residents to 25 or more and a typical length of stay at one is 6 months. These houses are designed exclusively for those recovering from addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs.  
  2. Supervised living -In this area of North Carolina a Supervised living program is one where the residents share an apartment rather than a house, there are no staff members living on site, and there are designated monitors who can stop by the apartment at any time of the day or night. Other than these differences, they are quite similar to halfway houses in as much as they have curfews, mandatory inside and outside meetings, counseling groups, work requirements, etc. These houses are designed exclusively for those recovering from addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs.
  3. Three Quarter House -Most of the three quarter houses in this area are Oxford Houses . An Oxford House has three main rules: Dont use alcohol or other mind altering drugs, pay your rent, and don't cause a disturbance. There are no paid staff members in an Oxford House. All decisions are made democratically by the residents. They have elected officers to help organize the house, and the residents can stay in the house for as long as they want provided they obey the rules. Each house is independent of the others, and may make any rules that the residents want to as long as they don't conflict with the Oxford House Charter. These houses are designed exclusively for those recovering from addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs.  
  4. Therapeutic Community -Therapeutic Communities are long term residential treatment alternatives for recovering addicts that are highly confrontational, and often have no ties or involvement with the 12 step recovering communities. Most do not allow residents to get jobs outside of the community until the last several months of their residency. Some, that are patterned after Delancy Street are vocationally oriented, and they have several buisinesses set up in which the residents are given intensive vocational training. Others, like Teen Challenge , are Christian oriented and they involve intensive bible study, group counseling, and some academic training. These programs can last anywhere from 1 to 2 years in length. These houses are designed exclusively for those recovering from addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs.
  5. Family Care Home -A family care home is a home for residents who are mentally and physically disabled to the point where they can not work nor take care of their basic daily needs without help. These homes offer an intensive level of care that the other alternatives listed here do not. Most family care homes are not designed to offer specific help for recovery from addiction.
  6. Homeless Shelter A homeless shelter usually offers basic shelter for the homeless. Some have programs (mostly Christian based) set up to help folks to get back on their feet. Some only offer shelter and/or food. Often, recovering addicts must make use of these places while in early recovery or while waiting for a bed in another supervised living program. Most homeless shelters are not designed to offer support to newly recovering substance abusers.
  7. Transitional Housing Transitional Housing is short term housing designed to target different populations. The transitional housing programs I have listed here target populations such as HIV infected individuals, homeless men, homeless women, homeless families, etc. The common denominator between them is that they all will accept newly recovering substance abusers. Many of these programs have no built in supports for substance abusers, so they should only be considered, like homeless shelters, as a last resort or as interim shelter.  

Under Gender, m=males, f=females, b=both or families.

     

    Under Housing Type:

  1. 1/2 =Halfway House,
  2. 3/4 =Three Quarter House,
  3. Sup =Supervised Living Program,
  4. Thera =Threrapeutic Community,
  5. Trans =Transitional Housing,
  6. FC =Family Care Home,

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