ABOUT
Real Life Recovery (The Alamo House) is a recovery home that has been in operation since 2013 helping people rebuild their lives. We are centered around helping individuals with substance use disorder rebuild and create a life for themselves. Real Life Recovery is built around empowering our clients to actualize life skills in a safe, sober, and structured environment. Real Life Recovery offers guidance and exposure related to non-violent communication, accountability for actions, and cohesive communal living. We help our clients to identify the connections between harmful behavior patterns and substance use.
RLR offers management support in rebuilding the framework of life. i.e. creating healthy living routines, identifying community resources, cooking meals and healthy eating. Additionally, recovery expectations for the household are attending 12-step meetings, finding a sponsor and building a recovery support network (in addition the sober support network In the home), and random drug testing. Clients are to participate in the weekly house meeting and additional check-ins with management throughout the week as necessary.
The core values of Real Life Recovery are honesty, integrity, open communication, accountability, willingness and hard work.
Real Life Recovery is set apart from all other programs thus far because of its willingness to take
clients with no funds for a probationary period of 14 days (if necessary). This creates a dynamic of connectivity and trust with clients knowing that someone is in their corner. Unlike other housing structures in surrounding areas Real Life Recovery has a relapse policy that is contingent on honesty and dealt with on an individual basis. Clients are given an opportunity to take accountability and clients are “grounded” in home for anywhere from 3 days to 14 days. Clients are taken to outside 12-step meetings and wrapped around with communal support by all peers and management in home. This has been proven to increase recovery rate within the home and further solidify bonds. Other SLE’s “doing the same thing” will either a. Kick client’s out of house permanently or b. Have them leave the house for 3 to 5 days. Which often leads to clients simply continuing to use drugs as they can feel abandoned and given up on. At RLR, clients are shown that they will not be discarded or given up on, so long as they can be honest and willing to take accountability for their actions. The unique experience of individualized care and consistent empathetic interventions fosters an atmosphere of safety and alignment with the core values of the household.
clients with no funds for a probationary period of 14 days (if necessary). This creates a dynamic of connectivity and trust with clients knowing that someone is in their corner. Unlike other housing structures in surrounding areas Real Life Recovery has a relapse policy that is contingent on honesty and dealt with on an individual basis. Clients are given an opportunity to take accountability and clients are “grounded” in home for anywhere from 3 days to 14 days. Clients are taken to outside 12-step meetings and wrapped around with communal support by all peers and management in home. This has been proven to increase recovery rate within the home and further solidify bonds. Other SLE’s “doing the same thing” will either a. Kick client’s out of house permanently or b. Have them leave the house for 3 to 5 days. Which often leads to clients simply continuing to use drugs as they can feel abandoned and given up on. At RLR, clients are shown that they will not be discarded or given up on, so long as they can be honest and willing to take accountability for their actions. The unique experience of individualized care and consistent empathetic interventions fosters an atmosphere of safety and alignment with the core values of the household.
