Alcoholics Resocialization Counseling Help (A.R.C.H.)

About Alcoholics Resocialization Counseling Help (A.R.C.H.)

Alcoholics Resocialization Counseling Help is a sober living operator in Omaha, Nebraska, running men's recovery housing in Douglas County under the working name A.R.C.H. The organization holds 28 beds across two addresses in the central and midtown parts of the city, and it operates a single program model at both.

A Structured Omaha Recovery Housing Provider

A.R.C.H. asks more of residents than most Nebraska sober living operators do. Every man is expected to find and hold full-time work, sit for weekly individual counseling, and attend three to five twelve-step meetings a week. Applicants are screened before they reach the wait list. The published fee is $140 a week covering room, board and counseling together, with a further charge for applicants arriving from out of state.

Two Men's Sober Houses in Douglas County

The operator runs two addresses:

• A.R.C.H., on South 37th Street in Omaha.
• A.R.C.H. O'Hanlon, on North 58th Street in Omaha.

Both sit inside the city, which keeps the same bus network, the same employers and the same meeting schedule available to a resident at either address. Twenty-eight beds between two houses means small households rather than a dormitory.

Counseling Built Into the Recovery Home

A weekly one-to-one counseling session is a condition of residence, and individualized plans cover life skills, time management and budgeting. Referrals to mental health care go out where a resident needs them. Nebraska draws a line between licensed clinical treatment and housing, and an operator that folds counseling into the housing fee removes a separate appointment, a separate bill and a separate trip across town.

Moving On From A.R.C.H. Sober Living

The program is designed to end somewhere specific. Residents who complete it are assisted into three-quarter housing, which is the step most men in Omaha reach for next. Anyone comparing sober living operators in Douglas County should ask how long that placement usually takes, what the wait list looks like at each address, and how the employment requirement is enforced in the first month.