Resident Code of Conduct: Treatment vs. Recovery Home Language

It is important to know that recovery homes are not treatment centers. Even if your recovery housing program is formally affiliated with a treatment program, the recovery house must be separate.

To reduce confusion for you, your residents and your recovery house community, choose non-clinical language that is reflective of a family-like housing environment.

Such as:

• “Support” instead of “treatment”
• “Application” instead of “assessment”
• “Move in” instead of “intake or admission”
• “Move out” instead of “discharge”
• “Resident or tenant” instead of “client or patient”