We are housing. We are clear about that.
Aftermath Rehabilitation is not a treatment center, detox program, or clinical facility.
We provide quality transitional housing where residents can continue working with their own recovery programs, treatment providers, case managers, probation officers, sponsors, or community resources while living in a safe, sober environment.
Our focus is housing, stability, accountability, and providing the time and space necessary to build a stronger future.
What we do
- Provide a furnished bed in a clean, sober, structured home
- Hold the house to its expectations, consistently and for everybody
- Test for drugs and alcohol, at random
- Keep the peace, and keep the place quiet
- Know where people are supposed to be, and notice when they are not
- Work alongside your case manager, sponsor, probation officer or program when you have asked us to
- Confirm residency and attendance to a court or agency when you have given us written permission
- Point you toward services, and help you get to them
What we do not do
- Detox, or any kind of medically supervised withdrawal
- Counseling, therapy, or clinical group sessions
- Diagnose anything, treat anything, or prescribe anything
- Administer or adjust your medication
- Provide nursing, personal care or medical supervision
- Replace your treatment program, your sponsor, your case manager or your doctor
- Accept or pay anyone anything for sending us a resident
Every one of those needs a licensed provider, and several of them need a license we do not hold and are not pretending to.
Why we say it this plainly
Blurring this line is how people get hurt, and how programs get shut down.
In California, providing detox, counseling, group sessions, educational sessions or treatment planning in a residential setting requires a license from the Department of Health Care Services. Doing it without one is an offense, and a house that quietly drifts into it puts its residents at risk as well as itself.
It matters to residents too. Somebody who arrives expecting clinical treatment and finds a sober living home has been misled, and that is a bad start to a hard thing.
So we say what we are, and we make sure the professionals who refer to us know exactly what they are referring to.
If you need treatment first
Call us anyway. We would rather spend twenty minutes helping you find the right level of care than take a bed fee for the wrong one. SAMHSA's free, confidential helpline runs 24 hours a day at 1-800-662-HELP, and findtreatment.gov lists licensed programs near you.
Also true
A few things worth saying out loud.
We never pay for a referral, and we never take payment for making one.
Not to a treatment center, not to a hospital discharge planner, not to a marketer, not to anybody. It is prohibited by federal law under the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act and by California Health and Safety Code section 11831.7, and it is the clearest sign that a house is selling beds rather than running a home. If we send you somewhere else, it is because we think it is right for you and we get nothing for it.
We do not publish success rates, and we do not promise outcomes.
Any number of that kind would have to state how it was measured and over what period, and most of the ones in this industry cannot. Recovery outcomes differ from person to person. What we can promise is what the housing is and how the house is run.
Nobody is put out on the street.
If a placement ends, for any reason including a serious rule violation, we do not open the door and leave somebody on the sidewalk. We make calls, we help arrange somewhere, and we get the person there. That is the difference between a home and a rental.
We do not confirm to anybody that you live here.
Not to your employer, your landlord, your family or a caller who says they are your probation officer, unless you have signed something naming them. See the privacy notice.
Housing, stability, accountability, and time.
If that is what is missing, this is the right call to make.