ARC Center for Women and Children – TAP Case Management

ARC Center for Women and Children/TAP Case Management provides case management services for female substance abusing offenders and a day treatment program with services specifically for the children of the mothers served. ARC Center for Women and Children/TAP Case Management is located in Madison, Wisconsin.

Their treatment focus on the specialized needs of women, they form a holistic approach to women specific treatment that is culturally and gender sensitive. These additional elements include the family centered context of service delivery, the focus on domestic abuse, trauma and self-esteem, providing for comprehensive medical services, wraparound case management, and the extensive use of women as service providers and positive role models.

Utilization of strength-based case management in the primary life domains and AODA treatment plan development by the key participants, especially the woman herself, as well as other relevant systems such as probation and parole, human services or public health to establish goals over the length of a woman’s participation which are monitored on a regular basis and revised as needed under the primary responsibility and coordination of the AODA Counselor and designated Case Manager. The goals are individualized for each woman and her family, and are quantifiable as much as possible, with a time frame for accomplishment identified.
Clients receive intensive case management as well as coordination of AODA treatment services. In addition to the individual counseling sessions, the clients also complete a 14 unit Cognitive Interventions group.