The Rose House is an innovative and unique “hospital diversion” facility where individuals seeking temporary residential care/ respite care can stay for one to five nights. Services at The Rose House are designed to help “at risk” individuals to break the cycle of learned helplessness and recidivism through twenty-four hour peer support, self-advocacy education and self-help training. Guests are taught to use new recovery and relapse prevention skills and to move away from what are often long histories of cycling from home to crisis to hospital, year after year. The home-like environment is warm, friendly, safe and supportive.
Interventions at The Rose House are conducted by PEOPLe, Inc. peers who are trained to listen and validate issues or concerns in an empathic and loving manner. All of the peers in The Rose House have experienced similar crises in the past and their experience brings authentic strength and healing to the environment.
The Rose House is equipped with professional musical instruments, art equipment, self-help tapes, videos and DVD’s. It has an exercise room and video games. Each room is equipped with a TV and small stereo. These amenities are designed to distract guests from perseverating on their impending crisis and to remind each guest that he/ she is a person first, who is in crisis, second.
Philosophy…
The Rose House peer-operated services are based on the philosophy that recovery is not only possible, it is the expectation. We seek to promote full recovery, active engagement, hope, stabilization, employment, development of an extensive personal support system, and productive meaningful lives. At The Rose House, we value human resiliency and hope. Our respectful and compassionate approach is effective in helping those at risk to accept and respond to care they find acceptable and effective. We encourage our guests to consider The Recovery Credo.
Recovery Credo
·I have the right to recover from my illness and live a quality of life that is of my choosing.
·I have the right to choose my wellness treatment and to be self-determined to maintain my wellness through growth related to my successes and failures.
·I have the right to have hope and share hope with others as I see fit.
·I have the right to use my abilities and interests to create recovery goals that will lead me toward a better life.
·I have the right to understand and partner in every phase of my recovery goals and plans with any and all treatment providers.
·I have the right to make informed decisions that concern my recovery and my life.
·I have the right to have hope, dreams, aspirations and motivation.
·I have the right to have a bad moment in time, a bad day, a bad week, etc. and I have the right to talk freely to someone about it without fear of retribution, retaliation or negative consequences.
·I have the right to have my cultural preferences treated with respect.
