Halfway House Benefits

Safety. Accountability. Support.

Paradise Recovery Housing provides a stable, safe, and supportive community to help residents maintain successful long-term recovery from mood-altering substances. At our recovery residence, you are accountable to your peers, the residence manager, and the rest of the Paradise Recovery Housing staff — built on people helping people.

How Our Program Works — The Phase System

Your phase is directly tied to your work in recovery. Residents must remain on a phase for at least 30 days before requesting to phase up, and cannot skip phases.

Phase 1 (30-day probationary period)

• Complete Steps 1–2 with a sponsor
• 11pm curfew
• Attend three 12-step meetings weekly (not including the house meeting)
• Join a home group
• Obtain or maintain a full-time schedule of employment, school, or volunteer work

Phase 2

• Complete Steps 2–3
• 12am curfew
• Three 12-step meetings weekly
• Fulfill a home group service commitment
• Maintain full-time employment, school, or volunteer work

Phase 3

• Begin Steps 4–12, making amends under the direction of your sponsor
• 12am curfew
• Three 12-step meetings weekly
• Take a service commitment through your home group
• One night out per week

Senior Peer

• Available as a sponsor for newcomers in and out of the home
• 1am curfew
• Three 12-step meetings weekly
• Maintain home group commitments and employment/school
• Two nights out per week
• Mentor newer residents — future residence managers are chosen from senior peers

Admission Criteria

We accommodate men 18 years of age and older with a problem with drug and/or alcohol abuse (and some with a co-occurring mental health disorder). Admission requires abstinence from all mood- or mind-altering substances for a minimum of 30 days.

Disqualifying factors include: use of replacement drug therapy (e.g. Methadone, Suboxone), sex offender offenses, violent criminal offenses, graveyard-shift employment, bartending employment, and inability to pay program fees.

Program Fees

• $165 per week program fee
• $150 intake fee upon arrival
• $5 online processing fee for payments made through our website

Program fees are due at admission and paid in advance for each service period going forward. Residents who cannot pay at the time fees are due must make a payment arrangement in writing with the Certified Recovery Residence Administrator (CRRA).

Resident Rights

Paradise Recovery Housing is committed to the support and protection of the fundamental human, civil, constitutional, and statutory rights of each of our residents.

• No discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or handicap
• Right to be treated with dignity and respect
• Right to active, individualized care for the full period of your stay
• Right to participate in the planning of your care and to review your records
• Right to confidentiality of all resident information and medical records
• Right to file a grievance — in-house and with the Florida Association of Recovery Residences (FARR)

Length of Stay

There is no fixed length of stay. The program is designed around the phase system, with a minimum of 30 days at each phase before phasing up, and no skipping phases. Residents typically remain in the program until they have completed senior peer status and are ready to live independently while maintaining their recovery.