SOMA Peer-to-Peer Recovery Center

219 7th Street, San Francisco, California 94103

Our sober living program FoF has both short & long term sober living housing available. FoF at 221-7th St. 7th St. which has the SOMA P2P Recovery Center below the hotel so there is always some there to support you in your time of need.

SOMA P2P Menu of Services

Peer-to-Peer Community at RSN

The majority of peers will be residents of San Francisco in desperate need of support for themselves and their family members. Characteristics of this population include substance abuse, chronic alcoholism, no or low income,  lack of education, history of family dysfunction, at-risk to HIV and violence, little or no family support, gay, lesbian, and persons with addictive personalities who need to stay involved with a Recovery Community Organization that provides a drug free supportive environment.

Individuals participating in this Peer-to-Peer program must be committed to recovery and abstinence from mind-altering drugs and alcohol. Although some peers will not commit to total abstinence, RSN peer group leaders will still provide the same quality services to peers who relapse as those who have maintained abstinence. All peers who participate in the program cannot come to or bring drugs, alcohol or related paraphernalia around their peers while under the influence. Peer leaders, staff members, interns and volunteers will be trained and provided with information in an effort to offer help to peers who attempt to enter the peer recovery community while under the influence. There will be a section for peers who relapse or come to the facility under the influence, so they can receive help and the peer staff on duty will intervene and get their peers to a reasonable place of safety and comfort.

Peer-to-Peer caseload members will be part of their peer's reconstruction of sobriety and offer peer emotional support to help them regain their focus on changing old bad habits with the support system that is part of the program.

We have had MOU agreements with the top residential treatment programs in SF to refer peers that needed immediate residential treatment. We will be with our peers if the situation should occur and one of our peers needs or requests residential treatment, once they return to the community the services and support will continue for as long as we can keep the facility operational. Like any program the peer participant has to recognize and admit that he/she have a problem with drugs and alcohol and they have to want to change their old bad habits for new habits and a change in lifestyle; free from drugs and alcohol. Getting the Recovery community involved with the delivery of peer services improves the chance for sustained abstinence. RSN has secured memorandums of understanding to collaborate with established drug and alcohol programs in San Francisco like: Morrisania West, Inc., The Walden House, Friendship House, Jelani House, United Playas, Anders and Anders Foundation, Ohlhoff Recovery Programs, Providence Foundation, The Healing Circle and Salvation Army's Harbor Lights Program. These project linkages are available resources to help our peers survive and many more social service agencies we will establish linkages with the peer mentoring process as the program progresses, will insure all peers in our recovery community a solid self built recovery network. All of the social service agencies linked to this collaborative will agree that the length of transitional services will vary and can be adjusted to accommodate the individual peer's recovery plan.

Mix of Services

• Peer-to-Peer 1 support groups for peers who wish to abstain from the use of drugs and alcohol will be in peer groups with other peers in recovery with similar addictions who are striving to stay drug and alcohol free. The key component is to provide support services and caseloads to peers that have identified specific addictions such as; Heroin peer support, Cocaine & Speed support group, Alcohol support group and multiple addictions poly addiction support group. There will be family outings and groups that will include clients from the harm reduction component when the peer leader feels it is safe for clients from both peer components to participate in these AOD-Free social functions.
• Peer-to-Peer 2 groups for people maintaining medically assisted sobriety that are on methadone or buprenorphine will be able to support each other and have peer discussion regarding dose reductions and the issues and barriers they are encountering as the result of a smaller dosage etc. Recovery can cover many issues and barriers and no two people are the same and their recovery issues are never identical. The RCDC will provide a support arena that will help peer's deal with real problems without a clinical approach. People helping people can be of more value than conventional approaches than text book therapy. Peer mentoring or coaching can not replace professional services and are not intended to change those theories but to utilize the professional structure without therapeutic interventions.
• Peer-to-Peer 3 relapse prevention and harm reduction support groups are for peers who relapse, want to reduce, or want to manage their consumption will also be available on a limited basis. Only the individual can make these types of decisions. The level of peer support services will be top quality in this community as well. This peer group will form a "relapse support group" and it will function at different times, so it will not influence or confuse the peers who are trying to keep the sobriety they have and sustain their long-term goal of abstinence. Every peer in the community will participate and deliver emotional support to every member of the community and try to encourage their effort to reenter the community practicing abstinence once again. No one can point the finger or make the relapse an issue to use against another member of the community. We all need a little help at different times and it will take everyone in the community to help rebuild that particular individual's confidence and self-esteem again.

The team of peer leaders at RSN is dedicated to providing supportive services to individuals who want to stay drug and alcohol free.

"You can win at RSN"

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