The goal of The Dimock Center’s Residential Rehabilitation Services is to help each resident establish a routine of recovery and help prepare them to transition successfully back to the community.
Working in tandem with Dimock’s Health Center and Child and Family Services, our residential programs are seamlessly integrated, ensuring individuals and families find the health care and the community resources to best support their sustained recovery.
Interested in learning more about our residential Addiction Services programs? Call 617-442-9661.
Clinical Stabilization Services (CSS)
Clinical Stabilization Services at Dimock provides intensive clinical services to address the complex needs of individuals in early recovery. The program supports men and women who have ongoing issues with substance use, mental health, and trauma by offering structure, comprehensive support, and, most importantly, hope. Dimock’s CSS programs create a “Healing Community,” using best practices including trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, harm reduction, music, art, yoga, and other expressive therapies.
Our Services
During their time in the program, individuals are given the space and support to regroup, reflect, and refocus their lives. Each week, individuals receive individual clinical and group therapies that focus on developing effective coping skills and understanding the complex nature of addiction. Together, staff and clients create an effective plan for their continued treatment. The program provides residents with homework to enhance the learning process as well as a “Roadmap to Recovery,” a planning tool to help them prepare for their life in recovery.
Participants also are connected to our Health Center for medical care and wraparound support.
The program director and clinical director oversee a skilled team of Master’s level clinicians, care coordinators, direct care, and administrative staff. These CSS programs are funded by the Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Services and third-party insurance providers.
Dimock’s CSS programs welcome individuals receiving methadone and/or suboxone as part of a medication-assisted treatment program, and women who are pregnant.
For more information about Dimock’s CSS programs, please call 617-442-9661
Askia Academy
The Askia Academy is a program for men with a dual diagnosis, also known as co-occurring disorders. Named for community activist Nate Askia, the program serves men in recovery for up to nine months. Askia Academy is a healing community providing comprehensive support to men to prepare for self-sufficiency and sustained recovery.
Our Services
We offer men daily individual and group counseling, family stabilization, job preparation support, educational/vocational program referrals and peer-to-peer mentoring. Men also are referred to Dimock’s Health Center for primary and specialized care, and their children are connected to our Child and Family Services for enrollment in Head Start, early intervention, and other wraparound services. The program is licensed and funded by the Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.
For more information about Askia Academy, please contact: 617-442-8800, ext. 1654
Ruth Kelley Ummi’s House
Ruth Kelley Ummi’s House (RKUH) is a beacon of hope for previously incarcerated women navigating the path to recovery and family reunification. This family-centered sober-living program serves mothers with a dual diagnosis—substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health conditions—along with their children, providing a stable foundation for long-term healing.
RKUH’s congregate living space is located in the Fort Hill neighborhood of Roxbury and offers a nurturing environment within a culture of recovery. Case managers help each woman find the critical resources she’ll need to move on to permanent housing, advance her education, secure employment, and access services for her children. The program also offers an Alumni group, which meets monthly providing peer-to-peer and relapse prevention support.
The majority of the children at RKUH are under the care of the Department of Children and Families (DCF). We welcome pregnant women and women who are on methadone maintenance.
RKUH is supported by the Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, the City of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development, and private donations.
For further information about Ruth Kelly Ummis House, please contact 617-442-6778.
For intake referrals, call the Institute for Health & Recovery at 617-661-3991.
“When I came to Dimock, everybody that was here was in a positive mind frame. And because of that positive mind frame, it was hard to be negative…
When I came to Dimock, there was so much recovery. Not just recovery in the sense of AA meetings. But people recovering things in their life—family, employment, housing…”
– David
