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Non-TC Transitional Housing for Recovery

Residential Recovery and Reintegration Pathway

The Residential Recovery and Reintergration Pathway is a values-based, non-clinical addiction recovery program offered by The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc. Designed for individuals seeking a safe and structured environment to rebuild their lives, this program spans either 90 or 180 days, depending on personal needs and readiness.

This pathway is a non-therapeutic community (non-TC) model nor a clinical intervention. Instead it uses its own Life Recovery Program--an evidence-informed, values-based recovery curriculum--to provide residents with a structured foundation for personal growth, accountability and reintegration.

Participants are immersed in a supportive community where they can:

  1. Establish healthy habits and routines that promotes stability and self-discipline.
  2. Engage in reflective spiritual exercises that nurture inner healing and purpose.
  3. Build meaningful relationships through peer mentoring and group activities.
  4. Learn practical life skills essentials for reintegration into family, work, and society.

Who This Program is For

This program is ideal for individuals who are medically stable, not in immediate crisis, and free from any indicators of active psychosis. It is specifically designed for those who are emotionally and behaviorally capable of engaging in structured recovery activities without the need for psychiatric intervention.

Participants should demonstrate a readiness towards personal transformation and a commitment to values such as dignity, accountability, and hope.

Through this pathway, individuals are empowered to reclaim their lives, rebuild healthy relationships, and reintegrate meaningfully with their families, work, and communities--supported by a safe, non-TC, non-clinical environment.

Healing Together: Family Support Sessions

Healing and Reconnection for Families Affected by Addiction

Addiction and compulsive behaviors don’t only affect the individual—they impact the entire family. At The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc., we believe that true recovery happens in the context of relationships, where wounds can be healed, trust can be rebuilt, and hope can be restored.

Healing Together: Family Support Sessions provide a safe and supportive space for families to:

  • Learn about addiction, recovery, and co-dependency from a clear, value-based, evidence-informed, and non-clinical perspective.
  • Practice healthy communication that strengthens connection while respecting boundaries.
  • Understand the role of family in recovery—how to support without enabling, and how to heal together.
  • Rebuild trust and relationships damaged by the cycle of addiction.
  • Find hope and resilience as a family system moving forward.

What Families Can Expect

These facilitated sessions are guided by our trained recovery coaches and family support facilitators. Through structured discussions, reflection activities, and guided exercises, families will:

  • Gain insights into how addiction impacts family dynamics.
  • Identify and set healthy boundaries that protect both the person in recovery and loved ones.
  • Explore practical tools for forgiveness, reconciliation, and moving forward.
  • Experience a values-driven approach rooted in compassion, dignity, and respect.

Why It Matters

Recovery is not just an individual journey—it is a shared path of healing. Families who participate in support sessions often find:

  • Reduced conflict and misunderstanding.
  • Stronger communication and emotional resilience.
  • Renewed hope for healthy, lasting relationships.

At the Sanctuary for Second Chances, we walk alongside families—not as clinicians, but as partners in healing—offering a space where honesty, compassion, and faith in renewal can take root.

Flexible Recovery Support and Aftercare Monitoring (Non-Residential)

Community-Based Continuum of Care for Recovery Maintenance

Recovery does not end after completing a program—it is a lifelong journey of growth, resilience, and support. At the Sanctuary for Second Chances, we recognize that each person's path is unique, and ongoing connection to a recovery community can make all the difference in maintaining long-term sobriety and well-being.

Flexible Recovery Support and Aftercare Monitoring is designed for:

  • Non-residential participants who may not require a full-time program but still need structured support.
  • Program alumni who have completed the residential Life Recovery Program and want continued accountability and growth.

What We Offer

This non-residential track provides a continuum of care through:

  • Values-Based Group Support – safe peer-led sessions that encourage sharing, accountability, and encouragement.
  • Individual Recovery Coaching – one-on-one sessions that provide personalized guidance, accountability, and goal-setting for ongoing sobriety and life balance.
  • Peer Mentoring – guidance and companionship from recovery coaches and mentors who have walked the same path.
  • Life Skills Reinforcement – practical tools for daily living, from managing stress and finances to building healthy relationships.
  • Structured Follow-Up – regular check-ins to provide accountability and celebrate progress.
  • Relapse Prevention Planning – identifying triggers, developing coping strategies, and strengthening resilience.
  • Reintegration Planning – helping participants return to family, community, education, or employment with confidence.

Why It Matters

Recovery flourishes when people stay connected. This program bridges the gap between structured residential recovery and full community reintergration, ensuring no one has to walk the journey alone. Participants often experience:

  • Lower relapse risk through consistent support.
  • A stronger sense of belonging and accountability.
  • Greater confidence in handling life's challenges.
  • Hope renewed through connection with others in recovery.

Our Approach

Unlike clinical aftercare programs, our model is values-driven, community-based, and non-clinical. We walk with participants as peers and mentors, offering a safe, compassionate, and structured space for growth—without stigma or judgment.

Recovery Coaching and Life Skills Training

Capacity Building for Peer Support and Sustainable Recovery

At the Sanctuary for Second Chances, we believe recovery is strengthened when people in the community are equipped to guide, mentor, and walk alongside others. Our Recovery Coaching and Life Skills Training program is designed to build a strong network of empowered peer coaches, facilitators, and volunteers who embody values-driven recovery support.

What We Offer

Our training program equips participants with the knowledge, tools, and lived-experience wisdom needed to serve as effective recovery companions. It includes:

  • Foundations of Recovery Coaching – principles of effective peer support, motivational interviewing techniques, active listening, and boundary-setting.
  • Values-Driven Support – practicing dignity, compassion, and accountability as cornerstones of sustainable recovery.
  • Ethics and Best Practices – applying ethical guidelines, confidentiality standards, and integrity in peer relationships.
  • Trauma-Informed Care – understanding the impact of trauma on recovery and responding with sensitivity, resilience, and safety.
  • Relapse Prevention Tools – evidence-informed strategies for identifying triggers, building coping skills, and sustaining progress.
  • Evidence-Informed Recovery Planning – applying best practices and lived-experience wisdom to create practical, sustainable recovery pathways. This includes integrating the Sanctuary for Second Chances' holistic, non-clinical framework for life recovery into coaching and mentoring, and aftercare support.
  • Life Skills Training – practical reinforcement of everyday competencies: stress management, communication, financial stewardship, and healthy relationships.
  • Mentorship and Practicum – hands-on, supervised learning experiences to build confidence and real-world skills.

Our Approach

This program is not a clinical certification. Instead, it is values-based, evidence-informed, and community-centered, designed to train recovery companions who walk alongside others with empathy, responsibility, and hope—rooted in the Sanctuary for Second Chances' unique framework for life recovery.

Understanding Addiction: Awareness and Education

Advocacy and Prevention Through Community Engagement

At the Sanctuary for Second Chances, we believe that awareness is the first step toward prevention and healing. Our Understanding Addiction program is designed to help communities, schools, and families gain a deeper perspective on the realities of addiction, co-dependency, and the pathways to recovery.

We deliver evidence-informed, values-based education that breaks stigma and fosters compassion. Through engaging formats—such as school and community symposia, public talks, interactive workshops, print and digital resources, and collaborative partnerships with civic and faith-based organizations—we empower people to become advocates of hope and change.

Topics include:

  • The Science and Lived Experince of Addition
  • Co-Dependency and its impact on families
  • Stigma Reduction
  • Early preventiion strategies for youth
  • Building resilience through values and life skills
  • Supporting recovery in community and faith settings

Our goal is to equip communities with knowledge and tools to prevent substance abuse and compulsive behaviors, while promoting supportive environments for those in recovery.

Position Statement on the Use of the Disease Concept of Addiction and Spiritual Anchors in the Life Recovery Program of The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc.

The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc. affirms that it operates a structured, non-medical, non-psychiatric, and non-clinical transitional housing, and recovery support program. While the initial service focus of its residency program is women, its Life Recovery Program is intentionally designed to serve both men and women in recovery through residential, individual recovery coaching, community-based implementation or partnership-based outreach.

The Life Recovery Program follows a values-based, trauma-informed, evidence-informed and person-centered approach that emphasizes life skills development, moral formation, reflective practice, and peer support. It does not provide medical treatment, psychiatric care, or therapeutic intervention.

As a core part of its psychoeducational framework, the Life Recovery Program includes a required, non-clinical presentation of the Disease Concept of Addiction. This framework is not introduced as a medical diagnosis, but as a transformational lens to help participants better understand their struggles with substance use, codependency, or other compulsive behaviors. Its inclusion is intended to:

  1. Reduce shame and stigma by presenting addiction as a condition with behavioral, emotional, and spiritual dimensions—not merely a moral failing;
  2. Encourage self-awareness and accountability, without applying medical labels or clinical classifications;
  3. Provide a bridge to community-based recovery groups (such as AA, NA, Al-Anon), where the disease model is commonly referenced, and offer language that supports peer connection and mutual support.

The Disease Concept of Addiction is intentionally presented in accessible, non-medical language, and is not used as a clinical or diagnostic tool, but as an essential recovery tool for understanding the chronic, progressive, and multi-dimensional nature of addiction. Participants are expected to actively engage with this framework as part of their recovery journey. Its inclusion supports a paradigm shift – from viewing addiction as a moral failing to understanding it as a chronic, progressive condition with behavioral, emotional and spiritual dimensions. This shift is essential to reducing internalized shame, promoting accountability, and fostering openness to sustained recovery.

The program does not conduct medical or psychological assessments, does not employ licensed clinicians for treatment, and does not offer services requiring Department of Health (DOH) licensing or therapeutic certification. Instead, it provides a spiritually integrated, community-based recovery environment that supports men and women seeking to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose.

While not required to operate under DOH regulation, The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc. intentionally integrates the qualified oversight of a DOH-Accredited Rehabilitation Practitioner as its Program Director. This reflects its commitment to ethical alignment with national recovery standards, while firmly maintaining its non-medical, non-psychiatric identity as a values-based, peer-supported, and trauma-informed, and evidence-informed recovery program.

In alignment with its holistic, values-based model, the program integrates optional spiritual anchors drawn from diverse and time-tested sources, including:

  • The Bible
  • The Rule of St. Benedict
  • The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

These spiritual anchors provide language and imagery for reflection on universal human experiences such as surrender, growth, humility, forgiveness, and hope. They are never imposed nor presented as religious instruction. Participants are encouraged to engage with these sources freely—or to draw from their own spiritual or moral traditions—depending on what best supports their personal recovery journey.

Facilitators and Recovery Coaches are trained to present both the Disease Concept of Addiction and spiritual anchors with emotional sensitivity, cultural respect, and openness to diverse belief systems. Recovery Coaches serve as trained companions, not clinicians—offering presence, accountability, and encouragement through regular, confidential conversations tailored to each individual’s journey.

The Life Recovery Program of The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc. maintains full alignment with the standards for non-medical, non-psychiatric, and non-clinical transitional housing and community-based recovery support programs as outlined by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The program responsibly integrates the Disease Concept of Addiction and optional spiritual anchors as educational and reflective tools, not as clinical or therapeutic interventions.

Referral System – General Overview

The Sanctuary for Second Chances accepts participants through self-referral (walk-in, online sign-up, or direct inquiry), as well as referrals from partner organizations such as NGOs, churches, family ministries, courts, and affiliated programs or organizational networks. Internal referrals across Sanctuary for Second Chances services are also made based on assessed needs. All referrals undergo an intake screening to determine program fit, with priority given to individuals who are medically stable, not in immediate crisis, and show no indicators of active psychiatric disturbance. When appropriate, The Sanctuary for Second Chances may refer individuals, when clinically indicated or based on assessed need, to trusted affiliated residential recovery facilities offering a higher level of care. Likewise, individuals not suited for any of Sanctuary for Second Chances’ programs may be referred to external services aligned with their needs. Confidentiality and ethical intake procedures are observed at all times.

Participation in Mutual Support Fellowships (12-Step Aligned Support Groups)

As part of its structured recovery program, The Sanctuary for Second Chances integrates regular participation in mutual support fellowships such as 12-Step Aligned Support Groups. These peer-led, spiritually oriented fellowships provide a vital platform for shared experience, mutual accountability, and reinforcement of recovery-supportive values. Participation in these meetings is a required component of the residential recovery program. Attendance is monitored and recorded as part of each resident’s Behavioral Progression Chart. While The Sanctuary for Second Chances actively incorporates and endorses the principles and practices of these fellowships as compatible with its values-based recovery approach, it is important to note that these support groups are not affiliated with the organization, nor do they represent or promote the Sanctuary for Second Chances in any form. Likewise, The Sanctuary for Second Chances does not speak on behalf of these fellowships. Residents are fully oriented to the voluntary and anonymous nature of these support groups and their foundational Twelve-Step model. Participation is conducted with appropriate supervision and respect for each individual's dignity and spiritual freedom. These fellowships are not clinical interventions and are not intended to replace professional psychiatric or psychological treatment where indicated. Their inclusion reflects the Sanctuary for Second Chances’ commitment to holistic, community-based recovery support while upholding ethical standards and clear organizational boundaries.

Position Statement on the Use of the Disease Concept of Addiction and Spiritual Anchors in the Life Recovery Program of The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc.

The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc. affirms that it operates a structured, non-medical, non-psychiatric, and non-clinical transitional housing, and recovery support program. While the initial service focus of its residency program is women, its Life Recovery Program is intentionally designed to serve both men and women in recovery through residential, individual recovery coaching, community-based implementation or partnership-based outreach.

The Life Recovery Program follows a values-based, trauma-informed, evidence-informed and person-centered approach that emphasizes life skills development, moral formation, reflective practice, and peer support. It does not provide medical treatment, psychiatric care, or therapeutic intervention.

As a core part of its psychoeducational framework, the Life Recovery Program includes a required, non-clinical presentation of the Disease Concept of Addiction. This framework is not introduced as a medical diagnosis, but as a transformational lens to help participants better understand their struggles with substance use, codependency, or other compulsive behaviors. Its inclusion is intended to:

  1. Reduce shame and stigma by presenting addiction as a condition with behavioral, emotional, and spiritual dimensions—not merely a moral failing;
  2. Encourage self-awareness and accountability, without applying medical labels or clinical classifications;
  3. Provide a bridge to community-based recovery groups (such as AA, NA, Al-Anon), where the disease model is commonly referenced, and offer language that supports peer connection and mutual support.

The Disease Concept of Addiction is intentionally presented in accessible, non-medical language, and is not used as a clinical or diagnostic tool, but as an essential recovery tool for understanding the chronic, progressive, and multi-dimensional nature of addiction. Participants are expected to actively engage with this framework as part of their recovery journey. Its inclusion supports a paradigm shift – from viewing addiction as a moral failing to understanding it as a chronic, progressive condition with behavioral, emotional and spiritual dimensions. This shift is essential to reducing internalized shame, promoting accountability, and fostering openness to sustained recovery.

The program does not conduct medical or psychological assessments, does not employ licensed clinicians for treatment, and does not offer services requiring Department of Health (DOH) licensing or therapeutic certification. Instead, it provides a spiritually integrated, community-based recovery environment that supports men and women seeking to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose.

While not required to operate under DOH regulation, The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc. intentionally integrates the qualified oversight of a DOH-Accredited Rehabilitation Practitioner as its Program Director. This reflects its commitment to ethical alignment with national recovery standards, while firmly maintaining its non-medical, non-psychiatric identity as a values-based, peer-supported, and trauma-informed, and evidence-informed recovery program.

In alignment with its holistic, values-based model, the program integrates optional spiritual anchors drawn from diverse and time-tested sources, including:

  • The Bible
  • The Rule of St. Benedict
  • The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

These spiritual anchors provide language and imagery for reflection on universal human experiences such as surrender, growth, humility, forgiveness, and hope. They are never imposed nor presented as religious instruction. Participants are encouraged to engage with these sources freely—or to draw from their own spiritual or moral traditions—depending on what best supports their personal recovery journey.

Facilitators and Recovery Coaches are trained to present both the Disease Concept of Addiction and spiritual anchors with emotional sensitivity, cultural respect, and openness to diverse belief systems. Recovery Coaches serve as trained companions, not clinicians—offering presence, accountability, and encouragement through regular, confidential conversations tailored to each individual’s journey.

The Life Recovery Program of The Sanctuary for Second Chances, Inc. maintains full alignment with the standards for non-medical, non-psychiatric, and non-clinical transitional housing and community-based recovery support programs as outlined by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The program responsibly integrates the Disease Concept of Addiction and optional spiritual anchors as educational and reflective tools, not as clinical or therapeutic interventions.

Life Recovery Program of the Sanctuary for Second Chances

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