Aftercare and Sober Living in Florida: What Comes After Rehab

Aftercare and Sober Living in Florida: What Comes After Rehabfloridarehab.net

After residential treatment, most people step down to partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient care, keep up with medication and therapy, and join support groups. Many choose a recovery residence (sober home). In Florida, certification of recovery residences is voluntary, but licensed providers generally may only refer patients to certified ones.

Step-down care

Florida licenses step-down levels of care including day or night treatment, intensive outpatient treatment and standard outpatient counseling. Moving through these gradually keeps support in place while you return to work, school and family life.

Recovery residences

Florida defines a recovery residence as housing offered as a peer-supported, alcohol-free and drug-free living environment. A residence may only advertise as "certified" if it holds a certificate from the state-approved credentialing entity, which inspects before certifying and at least once a year after. DCF has approved the Florida Association of Recovery Residences to certify residences.

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Checking a sober home

Ask whether it is certified, and confirm it
Licensed providers may not refer to residences that allow alcohol, marijuana, illegal drugs or someone else's prescription medication
Walk away from homes that offer free rent in exchange for attending a particular program

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