Please read the following Admission & Exclusion Criteria prior to submitting an application.
Admission Criteria; The potential resident must:
- Wants to be admitted Fair Life Voluntarily.
- Must be 18 years of age and older.
- Accept a minimum commitment of thirty (30) days of residency.
- Be medically stable. Any individual with ongoing medical problems, including dual diagnosis, may be accepted if they are addressing these problems with outside professional help, including medication management.
- Have adequate control over their behavior and assessed not to be imminently dangerous to oneself or others.
- Express a desire to recover from addiction to drugs or alcohol.
- Be assessed as medically appropriate and free of any illness that requires isolation from others.
- Have the capacity for active participation in all phases of the program.
- Be ambulatory and meet personal needs without assistance.
- Have adequate resources to pay for the program.
- Can be pregnant and ready to take the adequate steps for motherhood.
Exclusion Criteria; The potential resident cannot:
- Have clinical manifestations that meet criteria for a more intense level of care (e.g. Acutely psychotic or a danger to self or others).
- Have severe permanent deficits in recent memory, attention, concentration, who cannot attend effectively to activities of daily living and whose cognitive impairment prevents them from understanding and participating in the program.
- Have ongoing medical issues, which require a more intensive level of monitoring and care than can be provided by the Endeavor House. If the potential resident is assessed as appropriate for the A Fair Life Home, then the Directors will complete the initial screening, and if appropriate, the potential resident is invited to interview in the residence with potential roommates and the Fair Life members.