C.A.R.E. Center
What is a C.A.R.E. Center?
The C.A.R.E. Center is an alternative, therapeutic, supportive community founded on the truth that every human being is precious and worthy of love regardless of their earlier trauma, mental and emotional anguish, addictive behaviors, or past mistakes. Providing a beautiful, safe, warm, drug- and alcohol-free space and loving community to anchor Members (our most closely supported consumers) in the sustained recovery needed to gain and maintain access to housing, social and health services, healthy relationships, education, and employment is essential to this model.
Mission
The mission of the C.A.R.E. Center is to nurture recovery in our community by promoting the values: community affection, recovery principles, and empowerment, instilling self-love, raising leaders, ensuring accountability, restoring hope in the lives of individuals who have experienced challenges that have diminished their sense of self-worth
Vision
Loving our community one person at a time sharing our values, strengths, experiences, and hope.
Values
Community
Affection
Recovery principles
Empowerment
Key to our model is the firm belief that every person is in need of recovery from something and, having chosen the recovery journey, has wisdom to share with others. This belief is the grounding on which we have built our recovery programming.
Our model is designed to prevent one life-threatening crisis after another, saving taxpayer’s money in emergency intervention and allowing mental health and addiction support professionals to focus on health maintenance and addiction prevention. This is a much more humane and effective response.
Research literature has identified four types of social support that the C.A.R.E. Center provides through our programming:
- emotional—demonstrating empathy, caring, and concern to build a person’s self-esteem;
- informational—sharing knowledge and information to provide life and/or vocational training;
- instrumental— providing concrete assistance to help people accomplish tasks; and
- affiliational— facilitating contacts with other people to promote learning of social skills, create community, and instill a sense of belonging. (Cobb, 1976; Salzer, 2002)