Community Care Alliance

About Community Care Alliance

Community Care Alliance is a recovery housing provider in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, running sober living for men in Providence County. The agency administers its recovery housing from 800 Clinton Street in Woonsocket and places residents in Pawtucket and Woonsocket.

The Community Care Alliance Recovery Houses

Community Care Alliance names Teddy Jackson House and Mabel Anderson House as its recovery houses, both in Pawtucket. Teddy Jackson House takes men receiving Supplemental Security Income. Mabel Anderson House offers a self-pay route into the same program. Community Care Alliance states plainly that its recovery housing is for men only.

Community Care Alliance Housing Beyond Those Two Addresses

The agency's residential footprint reaches further than the recovery housing page describes. Rhode Island's register of agencies licensed to provide treatment for an alcohol or substance use diagnosis names Community Care Alliance at 80 Summit Street in Pawtucket, the Robert J. Wilson House, in the adult men's category. Fairmount House I on Birch Street in Woonsocket sits under the same agency in the city where Community Care Alliance is based. Rhode Island's Behavioral Health Open Beds registry records the Community Care Alliance recovery housing program as covering Pawtucket and Woonsocket, which is exactly the pair of cities those addresses describe.

Who Community Care Alliance Houses

The program is open to men aged 18 or older who want support services alongside housing that lets them hold a substance-free life together. Community Care Alliance accepts Department of Behavioral Healthcare slots as well as self-payment, which is what lets the agency run a grant-supported house and a self-pay house side by side.

House Standards and Admission

Community Care Alliance sets entry conditions before a man moves in and keeps them running afterward. An applicant must be alcohol and substance free for thirty days beforehand, must hold a sponsor and a home group, and must show attendance at a minimum of three self-help groups each week. Once in residence, men take part in at least two toxicology screens a week, keep up household chores and attend a weekly house meeting.

Medication and Clinical Policy

Methadone and Suboxone are permitted in Community Care Alliance recovery housing and are kept in secure double-locking storage. The agency also supports contact with parole and probation officers, with family and with recovery coaches, treating those relationships as part of a resident's recovery instead of a complication to be managed around.

Community Care Alliance Beyond Recovery Housing

Recovery housing is one service inside a much larger Woonsocket-based agency. Community Care Alliance also delivers addiction and mental health treatment, an intensive outpatient program, opioid addiction treatment, shelter and housing stability work, and employment and education support. A man in a Community Care Alliance recovery house is inside an organization that can also provide case management and help him apply for benefits and for more permanent housing.