Individuals seeking shelter and assistance come from varied backgrounds with a multiplicity of personal life and health problems. With this in mind, each resident is required to see a social worker upon entering our program and within twenty-four hours assessed and working on a mutually agreed development program towards a self-sufficient lifestyle. Assessment of an individual includes short and long-term goals, barriers to obtaining these goals, and component activities that will be undertaken to reach these goals (i.e., remedial studies, life skills, mental health counseling, and detox). Dates, hours of participation, and job training sites are all identified in the plan and updated as needed. Counselors at URC provide exceptional support and guidance from the first day of entry and throughout a client’s development. We also avail ourselves to graduates of our program with a continuum of support services.

We extend our greatest efforts to utilize already existing community programs and services whenever possible. However, when a need is not satisfied within the community, or is so great within our facility that a self-contained program better serves our clients, we strive to develop and enhance our own social services. Some in-house programs include: