Stay the Course
Intake Packet
By reading all regulations and signing below, I understand that I have read and agree to the terms provided.
Drinking and Drug Use
1) Drinking, drug or medication abuse during your residency in our home will be cause for immediate termination of residency. Bringing alcohol or drugs onto the premises is strictly forbidden and will result in the termination of residency.
2) Being where alcohol or drugs are present will result in a conference with the Property Manager. This is to protect your own recovery.
3) Alcohol and drug screening will be requested randomly and you will be required to submit. If you refuse to submit within one hour, you will be asked to vacate the premises, which may result in the termination of residency. Missing or refusing tests is equivalent to a failed test.
4) If you know or suspect that another resident is drinking, using drugs, engaging in an eating disorder, engaging in self-harm behaviors, taking medications not prescribed to them, or abusing any medication, you must notify the property manager immediately.
Outside Meeting Attendance
1) House meetings must be attended and a designated time will be given to you each week by the property manager. These weekly house meetings are mandatory.
2) You are required to attend minimum 3 outside 12-step meetings per week.
3) Your are required to have and work with your sponsor until your 12 steps are completed.
Upon step completion you will be actively looking for sponsors
Clients that lose their sponsor will be given an opportunity to find a new one, after one week, a sponsor will be chosen for the client
House Rules
1) The house will be kept neat and clean at all times. You will be assigned a daily chore that will be given weekly.
2) You are responsible for checking your chore and completing them on a daily basis. Chores will be checked at 9:00am Monday through Friday by the Property Manager, 10:00am on Saturday, and 12pm on Sunday. Weekend days will be checked by the Property Manager, and randomly throughout the week.
3) If your chore is not done, or not done satisfactorily, you will be grounded one day and will be assigned an extra chore for the next day. Examples of extra chores: cleaning the garage out, taking all the dishes out and cleaning the cabinets, bleaching the shower units, pruning the plants, scrubbing the walls and base boards in common areas.
4) Double Scrub:
Must complete a thorough double scrub EVERY week, days to be assigned by Property Manager
Must have double scrub checked with Property Manager before leaving the house.
This includes garages and back yard. Make sure they are clean and organized.
5) It is your responsibility to keep your bedroom area clean and swept. It is essential that your room be very well maintained at all times. Your bed is to be made upon waking and all items up off the floor and neatly put out of view. The home is subject to inspection at any time.
6) House rent is due at the 27th of the month every month. You are responsible for the weeks you are out of just as rent is due for the weeks you are out of town.
7) Residents provide their own food.
8) All residents are designated an area in the kitchen for their food storage. Your food is to be kept there. You are asked not to borrow or use other residents food without permission from them. After cooking a meal, you are required to clean all cooking utensils, pots, pans, etc. and the cooking areas as soon as you are done. Messes resulting from cooking are not the responsibility of the person with the kitchen chore; they are the responsibility of the person cooking.
9) All residents must be employed or actively seeking employment or a full-time student.
10) There are absolutely no visitors allowed on the premises without the expressed approval from the Property Manager.
CURFEW
Curfews need to be followed - NO EXCEPTIONS. Curfew is as follows:
Home by 12:00PM Sunday through Thursday
Home by 1:00AM Friday and Saturday
If you do not work or go to school then your curfew is 10:00PM every night while you are searching for a job or waiting to register for school. Please make sure you attend morning and afternoon meetings in order to meet your quota for the week. Your curfew for any days you are grounded will be 6:00PM
Home by 10:00 AM for someone who has had an overnight unless otherwise approved.
1) Overnight passes must always be approved by the Property Manager. You will be required let us know who you will be with and where you can be reached. Two overnight passes are allowed per week. If you have less than six months of sobriety, you must ask your Property Manager before you take one. If you have more than 6 months (and are not in continuing care), just ask the Property Manager for permission. If you have an approved overnight, it is your responsibility to inform your Property Manager. permission for an overnight must be asked and approved by 5:00PM that day. You MUST be home by 10am the following morning. Failure to be home on time will result in grounding. If you are in continuing care, your overnight must always be approved by your Property Manager first.
2) If you are planning on being out of town, it is very important that you have permission from your Property Manager to be gone, and that you have your chore covered. If you do not get your chore covered, you will be grounded as many days you are gone. If you agree to cover a chore please take it seriously as the house is counting on you.
3) Lights are to be turned off when you leave a room.
4) Smoking is allowed in the designated outside areas only. THERE IS NO SMOKING IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
5) No eating or drinking anywhere but in the kitchen, dining room or outside area.
6) Quiet times is to be observed nightly after 8:00PM. If you are up after 8:00PM you are required to be quiet and respectful.
7) You are expected to be awake by 10:00AM on weekdays and 10:30AM on the weekends, no exceptions.
8) Parking is only allowed on house driveways, garages, and onsite guest parking spaces or directly in front of the house, out of consideration for our neighbors and the large number of cars at our residence.
9) Residents of the Stay The Course Sober Living are not to park across from the side of the house.
10) If you are being picked up or dropped off, it needs to be ask quick as possible as to not disturb the neighbors. Avoid having cars idling outside the houses. If for any reason a car is waiting, its headlights should be dimmed or turned off entirely.
11) Music (including car stereos) needs to be kept at an appropriate volume. Please be courteous to your roommates and neighbors.
12) Prescriptions need to be put away in personal areas at all times and taken as prescribed. Meaning, they are not to be in public areas at any time. They must be in a secure and private location. This includes over-the-counter medications.
13) Mouthwash is to be alcohol-free ONLY, NO EXCEPTIONS. If this is found in your home, please contact the Property Manager and dispose of properly.
14) Any event at a place where alcohol consumption is a major component, needs to be approved by a Property Manager beforehand. If the situation poses a heightened risk of relapse, you need permission to attend.
15) Rent will be processed on the 27th of the previous month allow time for Stay The Course to pay its own rents and bills to keep the business going. No refunds will be given after payment has been processed. If a client discharges, a refund MAY be given if a new client acquires that bed at the prorated amount. Late fees will apply if not paid on time. Any questions or concerns are directed to the Property Manager.
16) Residents must take all of their belongings with them when they move out. Anything left behind will become property of Stay The Course Sober Living and will be donated to a local men’s shelter within 72 hours.
17) Stay The Course, LLC assumes no responsibility for lost, stolen, damaged or abandoned items.
18) Any illegal activity can result in immediate expulsion from Stay the Course.
Mutual Respect
1) Please respect your housemates by not using abusive language or gestures. This is important in learning how to communicate with others effectively in recovery.
2) If you have a problem with another house member, notify your Property Manager,
3) There is absolutely not physical violence. Physical violence of any kind will result in the termination of residency.
4) Inability to get along with other residents may result in the termination of residency.
5) Stay The Course has a zero-tolerance policy in regards to bullying. This includes any form of intimidation, aggressive verbal behavior, or gossip.
Consequences
1) Each time you break a rule, you will be given a consequence.
2) Consequences may be restriction, grounding, an extra chore, or, depending upon severity, termination of residency.
3) If you are grounded, you must be home by 9:00pm, no exceptions (if you work and are scheduled past 8pm, your Property Manager will either need to see verification of your schedule, or may designate your grounding to another night). If you do not have a job, volunteer, or go to school, and your curfew is already 9:00pm, your grounded curfew will be 6:00pm.
4) Consequences are to be decided by your house father and/or Property Manager.
Consequences of Relapse
Any client who uses drugs or alcohol will be referred to an appropriate detox or other recovery service for a minimum of 72 hours before being allowed back into the program. No client will detox at Stay The Course Sober Living. Client must abide by the recommendation of Stay The Course in order to get re-admitted. New admissions packet will need to be filled out. A deposit of $750 must be made available from the guarantor in order to guarantee at least 3 days at a local detox. If a client relapses at the house, no refunds will be given.
Stay The Course Sober Living reserves the right to discharge anyone who violates their admission agreement or misrepresents themselves upon entry. Actions which shall result in the discharge; include but are not limited to the use of drugs or alcohol, holding or trafficking any drugs or paraphernalia, holding or trafficking any weapons, any violence to another client or Staff Member, and any willful destruction of Stay The Course property. If a client is discharge for relapse or excessive rule violations, The Payee will be notified immediately and referrals given to any client that is discharged for any of the above violations. Discharged clients will be solely responsible for payment to any detox facility; Stay The Course will not be liable for such payments. Any and all re-admission is left up to the founders discretion. There are no refunds.
The client also understands that any violation of the rules that are attached signed and dated by both client and Stay The Course staff may result in discharge from treatment. Any reason for discharge is left up to the founders discretion. The client acknowledges by signing this document that the rules are necessary to provide a safe and supportive recovery living environment at Stay The Course.
Rent is run on the 27th of each month. Guarantors are required to sign the intake packet to ensure full understanding of what is expected and required by the client. Guarantors accept full responsibility for clients actions.
I, hereby, agree to follow and abide by these rules and policies. I understand that failure to do so could result in disciplinary consequences and/or eviction.
Stay The Course, LLC is strictly a sober living community and not a treatment provider; therefore, STC Sober Living does not bill or accept outpatient or any other insurance benefits to cover resident’s rent, treatment, therapy, or any other expenses, nor bill insurance benefits for laboratory urine analysis testing. STC does not accept insurance monies collected by any other treatment provider for rent or other services. STC does not engage in patient brokering or offer kickbacks for referrals. These practices are unethical and illegal.