Supportive Services
Mentorship and Life Coaching
Life coaches offer a range of support, from emotional guidance and practical advice to helping members set and achieve personal, educational, and professional goals. They help with everything from securing housing and employment to accessing vital community resources.
Life coaches also assist with navigating the often complex systems involved in reentry, such as legal services, health care, and job training programs. Our life coaches provide a safe space for members to discuss challenges and celebrate successes, fostering a sense of accountability and empowerment throughout the reentry journey.
Clinical and Wellness Services
The ARC Clinical and Wellness Department strives to support the overall wellbeing of ARC members. Coming home from incarceration and reentering the community comes with stress and triggers, and can be a complex emotional journey, so we want to make sure our members are supported with mental health services. The department consists of staff in Los Angeles and Sacramento, clinicians, graduate students, and community partners working together to build and support innovative and evidence-based programs that integrate tenets of trauma-informed care and whole-person care.
ARC Clinical and Wellness Department offers free individual therapy to all members interested in addressing interpersonal, transitional, or other concerns. We also provide group therapy focused on strengthening coping skills to deal with complex triggers, managing interpersonal relationships, and identifying healthy relationships, grief groups, and processing groups.
Services Offered
Addiction Support
A support group for ARC members who are struggling with substance use, have a history of substance use, are supporting loved ones experiencing addiction, or want to learn more about the science behind addiction.
Anger Management Group
A 10-week processing group, facilitated by staff certified in Anger Management, recognizes the signs of anger and develops preventive and coping strategies to manage it. It is a discussion and psychoeducation-based approach that challenges members to rethink their relationship with anger to move toward healthier, happier living.
ARCreatives
ARCreatives is a group of creative ARC members who come together as a community to share stories through spoken word, poetry, narrative writing, film, music, production, and visual art. ARC members participate in regular creative arts groups throughout the month, including a member-led music and recording studio, the Write to Express group, and ARC Film School, among others. By identifying the creative techniques that resonate most, members focus on expressing emotions and reflections, embracing the power and joy of creativity, and building deeper connections with others.
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Learning with Lifers
Healthy Relationships
A supportive space for members to share their experiences and perspectives from past and current relationships, while also building new interpersonal skills.
Healthy Relationships Group
A supportive space for ARC members to share their experiences and perspectives from past and current relationships, while also building new interpersonal skills.
Seeking Safety
An evidence-based group designed to support ARC members who identify as having a history of PTSD and substance use. This group is open to all members and focuses on developing healthy coping skills to promote safer relationships, thoughts, and behaviors.
CBT Skills Group
An evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy program that supports ARC members with emotional, social, and cognitive needs.
Women & Nonbinary Member Night
A monthly group for ARC members who identify as women or nonbinary, offering an empowering and safe space to share a meal, enjoy fun activities, and support one another.
How to join:
In order to receive these services, you must first become a member. Please fill out a member application and attend an orientation to be assigned life coach and access clinical and wellness services.
