ARC Community Services

ARC was created to provide a multidisciplinary model for the delivery of women responsive, family focused, multicultural, substance abuse services tailored to substance abusing women and in selected programs with a specific focus on pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. Based on best practices and current research, services are delivered through residential and community-based, licensed AODA day treatment programs some programs with licensed onsite childcare center or the ability for women to live with their children during the course of their treatment. ARC is also dedicated to the provision of treatment, support and services for women in lieu of incarceration and is addressed through the TAP/DTC Program. These projects work to incorporate ?Core Values? and is designed to address the substance abuse treatment needs of women and pregnant/postpartum women within the context of the family, especially mother/child bond, for improved abstinence; coordinate increased access to prenatal and well child as well as health education for the mothers with the intention of decreasing birth complications and increasing healthy births; enhance the mother's attachment to her infant and provide parenting support to assist in stopping the cycle of child abuse and neglect and to provide for increased family intactness and healthy family functioning; provide case management services and address the co-factors of substance abuse including sexual abuse to assist with development of a safe, stable and economically viable lifestyle for mother and infant.