Core Program Outlines
Eligibility
Admission Criteria: The potential participant must:
- Voluntarily apply to participate in the program
- Be 18 years of age or older, unless with a participating parent and/or guardian and requiring housing assistance.
- Be committed to their recovery and sobriety while participating in a sober living community.
- Be medically stable. Any individual with ongoing medical issues may be accepted if they are addressing these issues with professional help.
- Have adequate control over their behavior and assessed not to be imminently dangerous to oneself or others
- Express a desire to remain in recovery from addiction to drugs or alcohol ( as applicable)
- Be assessed as medically appropriate and free of any illness that requires isolation from others.
- Have the capacity for active participation in all phases of the program.
- Be ambulatory and meet personal needs without assistance; including administration of own medications.
- Have adequate resources to pay for the program.
- Agree to program rules and policies including completing a background check.
- Complete a drug screen analysis
- Have severe permanent deficits in recent memory, attention, concentration, who cannot attend effectively to activities of daily living and whose cognitive impairment prevents them from understanding and participating in the program.
- Have ongoing medical ailments which require a more intensive level of monitoring and care then can be provided by Mary’s place.
- Have criminal history that includes violent behavior and/or acts.
- Have been convicted of a sex-related crime and/or be required to register with the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry. Mary’s Place locations are not able to provide housing to sex offenders due to proximity to schools and our ability to host families.
- Known history involving other current program participants may be considered for admittance
- Circumstances surrounding past dismissal from the program is taken into consideration, but does not automatically disqualify a candidate from re-applying to the program.
- Individuals with a history of residency in Wood County, Wisconsin will have priority over applicants from other counties.
Program Application
Online applications are preferred.
Paper applications are available by request to [email protected]
**Wisconsin Rapids is locked at all times, no walk-ins or drop-offs are allowed without a scheduled appointment.
Paper applications are available by request to [email protected]
**Wisconsin Rapids is locked at all times, no walk-ins or drop-offs are allowed without a scheduled appointment.