About this Recovery Home
Rosecrance Marlowe Recovery House, Rockford, Illinois, is a recovery residence and sober living home in Winnebago County for adolescents aged 16 to 19.
Housing for Residents Aged 16 to 19
Marlowe Recovery House takes residents aged 16 to 19 who have previously completed a substance use treatment program. Admission turns on that completed program rather than on clean time alone, which places the house after treatment in a young person's sequence rather than in place of it. The age band also settles what the household is: everyone in it is a teenager or barely past it, working on recovery at the same stage of life rather than alongside adults twice their age.
What a Day Holds
Residents attend 12-step meetings daily and take part in therapeutic sober recreational activities, with 24-hour supervision on site. Individual therapy, group therapy and family education sit alongside that daily rhythm. Family education is the piece that marks this out as an adolescent program: the household a resident returns to is treated as part of the work. For someone sixteen years old, the home he goes back to is not one he chose or can readily change, so preparing it is as practical a task as preparing him.
School, Work and Life Skills
The program supports higher education and vocational opportunities and runs nutrition and fitness classes along with help managing finances. A resident here is still of school age, and that support points toward the transition into adulthood. Handling money, holding a schedule and choosing a course or a trade are tasks a young person would be facing anyway, and doing them inside a supervised residence is the difference this setting makes.
Clinical Care Layered Onto Residential Living
Cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing are delivered at Marlowe Recovery House. Relapse prevention training and discharge planning are provided as well, so leaving the house is a planned step rather than an end date. A family therefore knows in advance that the departure will be worked out rather than simply arrived at.
Rosecrance Behind the House
Rosecrance operates Marlowe Recovery House. Rosecrance is licensed by the state of Illinois, accredited by the Joint Commission and a member of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, and it has locations across Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana.
North University Drive and the Rock River
The house stands on North University Drive in Rockford, on the banks of the Rock River. Rockford is the seat of Winnebago County and the largest city in northern Illinois outside the Chicago area, and the Rock River runs south through the middle of it. Families comparing recovery housing in Winnebago County, or sober living options in Rockford, will find the age range served here the defining feature of this residence.
Services include individual and group counseling, family education and counseling, 12-Step meetings, 24-hour supervision, discharge planning for successful reintegration, secondary/higher and vocational educational opportunities, interpersonal skills training, life skills building, recreational activities and relapse prevention.
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home
