Searching for a home? Try our affordable Recovery Residences for Sober Living
We provide affordable housing for those who choose sobriety
The Stable Environment Model
A major challenge facing many individuals attempting to abstain from substances is finding a stable living environment that supports sustained recovery. Access Foundation provides affordable supported housing in the form of sober living residences that are alcohol and drug-free.
Our goal for the individual is to contribute to stable employment, wellness, and to reduce the overall risk of recidivism in the jail or prison system or relapse into substance abuse and mental illness. The Stable Environment Model provides the support necessary for residents to achieve long-term recovery and lead lives of dignity and maximum independence, reducing the over-reliance on institutional care, corrections, and shelters as warehouses for vulnerable individuals.
space is limited. Apply now check for vacancies!
What is The Stable Environment Model?
Access Foundation employs The Stable Environment Model in their homes as a recovery intervention model emphasizing experiential knowledge, connection, and peer support as the basic elements and framework for building recovery capital. It is a culture that promotes recovery, an emphasis on the retention effect, an opportunity to lead others, and a strength-based focus on growth. But it all starts with housing.
House Leadership and How it Works
Those who lead develop leadership skills, responsibility, and a better understanding of the process for
helping others, that cannot be learned in any other way. In the Stable Environment Model, group leader-
ship is voted on, and house peers are placed in positions to assist fellow residents, particularly new arrivals, by supporting and encouraging them, problem-solving, and mentoring through shared experience. Other residents benefit from the experience, support, and advice gained from peer-led interventions
House Manager
Establishes house culture, key role in maintaining order.
House manager sets the agenda for house meetings and plays a key role in establishing house culture. A manager checklist, our P&P manual, and a visiting operations manger support the house manager in his or her duties.
assistant manager
Tracks details
Keeps track of house meeting minutes, updates board, tracks vacancies, ensures all residents have an active mentor or sponsor. Acts as House Manager in the manager's absence.
House Accountant
Keeps track of house ledger
House money is distributed back to the house from rent received. House accountant does the shopping for the house based on needs voted on during the house meeting. UA money is collected and managed. Reports are given during the house meeting.
CHore advisor
Everyone works together to keep the house clean.
The Chore Advisor conducts inspections, distributes responsibilities, and ensures there are sufficient cleaning supplies in the house. Coordinates deep cleans and makes sure filters and vacuums are clean serviced.
Four Steps to Admission
How to get a position in one of our houses
Call Me: Battista Locatelli
When you're ready to choose recovery, call Battista at 435-559-1817 and find out what steps you should take to get into a house. If you find yourself a bit "short" on cash, there may be solutions available to help you. Our goal is to get you into the house, not keep you out. We'll get you on the right track with the support you need. Battista can answer your questions for you and connect you with house managers. He'll tell you what you might expect, and can guide you through the process.
What experts say about the principles of our model
At Access Foundation, we strive to increase Recovery Capital in our residents. We hope to capture both the principles associated with recovery capital and the spirit of it by documenting and exploring how simple, structured, practical, everyday experience and natural social forces can play a major role in shaping behavior change. To find out more about Recovery Capital, click here.
William L. White, MA
Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems, past-chair of the board of Recovery Communities United
More likely that of seeing an achievable top than hitting bottom
The obstacle to real recovery is not the pain of hitting bottom, but the absence of hope,
connectedness, and potential for fulfillment. The catalytic turning point for those with depleted recovery capital is more likely to be one of seeing an achievable top than hitting bottom.
David Best, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminology in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University
A lived experience of improved life quality and sense of empowerment
We believe that the essence of recovery is a lived experience of improved life quality and a sense of empowerment; that the principles of recovery focus on the central ideas of hope, choice, freedom and aspiration that are experienced rather than diagnosed, and occur in real-life settings rather than in the rarefied atmosphere of clinical settings.
dr. lisa rosenthal
Associate Professor in the NYC Psychology department at Pace University.
Full-time employment reduces depression and stress
Research has found that people with full-time jobs reported having the lowest levels of depression and stress; they also tended to eat the healthiest foods and ranked lowest for unhealthy food consumption. People holding down full-time employment enjoyed the most physical activity and reported the lowest levels of alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking.