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 individuals struggling with substance use, have a history of substance use, are supporting loved ones who struggling with addiction, or want to learn more about the science behind addiction.
Anger Management
A 10-week group that helps members recognize signs of their anger and develop preventative and coping strategies to manage their anger. The group is discussion- and psychoeducation-based, and it helps challenge members to rethink their relationship with anger, so they move towards happier and healthier living.
ARCreatives
ARCreatives is a group of creative individuals who come together as a community to share stories through spoken word, poetry, narrative writing, film, music + production, and visual art. We meet for regularly creative arts groups throughout the month, including our member-led music and recording studio, our write to express group, social justice film collective, and our CoLab, where we explore various fields of art. Through identifying creative techniques that most resognate with us, we focus on expressing feelings and reflections, embracing the power and joy of creativity, and connecting with others.
Mindfulness
An evidence-based group based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy principles of mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Healthy Relationships
A supportive space for members to share their experiences and perspectives from past and current relationships, while also building new interpersonal skills.
Seeking Safety
An evidence-based group to support members who identify as having PTSD and substance abuse history. Group is open to all members as it focuses on developing healthy coping skills that will support members to become safer in relationships, thinking,
and actions.
Thinking for a Change
An evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy program built to support members with emotional, social, and cognitive needs.
Women & Nonbinary Group
A monthly group of ARC female and nonbinary identifying members to provide an empowering and safe place to eat dinner, enjoy fun activities, and support one another.
Yoga and Well-Being
A welcoming, trauma-informed environment to explore the benefits of yoga and other mindfulness practices for stress relief, healing, and empowerment.
Grief Group
A bi-weekly supportive space for members to grieve, connect, and heal following significant loss. Facilitated by ARC therapists, discussion topics include but are not limited to: developing coping skills for grief, myths and facts around grief, supporting loved ones through grief, establishing your identity after a loss or transition, and adjusting to your new normal.
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.
