About ARC Community Services – Milwaukee
ARC Community Services is a 13-bed residential program for women under correctional supervision who have a substance use disorder. ARC Community Services is located in Milwaukee, 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.
The project is licensed by the State of Wisconsin as an twelve bed, Community-Based Residential Facility (CBRF) for eight women who are remanded to the State Department of Corrections for intensive community supervision, and four women who are in the TAP/DTC and CWC/HB/IOAS programs who are in need of additional support and/or structure.
Program services include: AODA assessment; AODA groups (Intensive Treatment; Symptom Management, Stages of Change, Relapse Prevention and Weekend Plan); Individual AODA Counseling; Cognitive Interventions; Family and Relationships; Parenting; Child Visit Program; Trauma Education; Anger Management; Basic Living Skills; Case Management (includes housing, vocational, budgeting, health, independent living skills); Recreation; Community Referrals (including for physical or sexual assault and domestic violence); and Continuing Care Group.
The program uses a stage process under which residents earn increasing privileges as they satisfy program requirements and individualized treatment plan goals. The program in located in a renovated three-story duplex in the Walker’s Square neighborhood. AMWP is licensed as a community-based residential facility and certified as a medically-monitored AODA residential facility.
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