MONARCH IS BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF INTEGRITY AND RETURNING DIGNITY TO RESIDENTIAL RECOVERY.
The difference with Monarch starts with our title; Monarch Clean and Supportive Living Homes. Not only are we a luxury residential recovery company, but equally important, we provide a supportive living structure designed around the individual. Supportive living can have various meanings but specific for us is the “whole person” approach to recovery based residential recovery. Many times, our residents come from specialized treatment programs focusing in on specifics related to addiction, their mental and physical health, work and family life, therefore upon intake we work to develop an integrative goal-setting plan. This plan is an overall cooperative strategy to pick up on previous successes and work to identify long term objectives specific to each resident’s needs.
At Monarch Homes we work with the resident’s exit treatment center to help step down the care from a medical facility to an appropriate residential recovery home with due care still strongly emphasized on the person as a whole and all of their unique needs. As much of our company product is the actual serenity of the home defined by the furnishings themselves, the foundation of our success is the personal attention to detail that we spend with each person. This success comes from helping them to develop skills based on how they interact with the group and how well they learn to redevelop their thinking around the use of drugs and alcohol. In addition to growth in recovery and abstaining from drugs and alcohol, residents learn imperative social skills. Among these skills is learning to follow a schedule, respect deadlines and come to appreciate the importance of guidelines and healthy routines in their lives.
At Monarch, we help our residents learn to ease the grip, take a look at where they are, where they want to go and help them get into step. By focusing on the individual in the home environment we help them learn to share responsibility, relinquish personal control, and recognize the benefits of being part of something bigger than themselves so that they can contribute to the pillars of a strong group structure.
In addition to personalized attention, we emphasize accountability. Monarch’s ‘Structure and Standards’ are well-designed guidelines put in place to assist our residents with successful group living. These include; house meetings, weekly house chores, outside recovery-based program attendance, random drug + alcohol screening, medication management, maintained curfew and general accountability to the group. Providing a time-tested set of standards helps create much needed structure for people who have been living without any boundaries or limitations.
Monarch aims to create community in our living environments that are filled with other like-minded, relatable and supportive people with the same and addictive backgrounds, helping alleviate peer stressors and help the resident to feel at ease. In doing so, this allows the resident to accept and recognize the short-term benefits in order for them to stick around long enough to enjoy the long-term gains seen in recovery.
Many examples, testimonies and studies have demonstrated that destructive living environments can derail recovery for even highly motivated individuals. With few healthy and structured options available to this at-risk demographic, many are forced into no-win situations from the onset. The unfortunate part of this situation is that it creates an unnecessary stigma surrounding the benefits of residential recovery living, deterring those that are on the fence about making that critical decision.
In addition, as City, State and Federal laws surrounding residential recovery evolve, each Monarch Home is fully licensed, insured and certified. Our house managers are those in recovery with long term, stable sobriety specifically vetted for their group management skills and compassion to help others. Each is trained to Monarch’s highest standards and each is paid with mandated responsibilities and accountability measures in place. This legitimate structured leadership is a critical component of everyone’s overall success in any group living home.
Another very important component to our success is the careful consideration of the people we admit. We interview each person before they come into our home to be sure that they are not only sober, committed and ready to work a program but also to ensure they will be a fit for those who are already in the home. This is a critical factor in making our homes conducive to the serenity and the expectations of our residents.
MONARCH ALSO LIMITS THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN EACH HOME.
Many of our competitors add bunk beds or 3 to 4 twin beds per bedroom. In certain circumstances, we have seen companies in the past designate a mattress in a small closet, behind doors, in unsafe attics, crawl spaces and garages. These standards are unacceptable, discouraging and demoralizing. Instead, Monarch offers full-size beds with premium mattresses and bedding and offer our residents an abundance of space, encouraging them to make their space comfortable and as homey as possible.
To ensure that our residents are as comfortable as possible we provide premium full-size mattress beds with complete quality bedding, new in-home laundry facilities with detergents, smart 4K televisions, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Prime video and top-rated high-speed internet. We provide an abundance of kitchen and cooking amenities, in-home computer and printer, new and comfortable high-quality furniture, all necessary cleaning supplies, bikes (with some designated for those who cannot drive), exercise equipment and group activities outside the homes. Resident services include medication management, BAC breathalyzing and substance testing as well as the allowance to stay as long as needed based on progressive steps in ones recovery, employment, willingness to welcome and assist new residents and continued participation in house community event and meetings.