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Anonymous:
could you please fill me in on the actual daily program that aarc puts it's clients through?
i am concerned, as my brother has just joined today as an alternative to jail. please get back to me!!

Anonymous:
It is basically "group therapy" all day and night, although not that theraputic. Your brother will be monitored 24-7 by "oldcomers" and not be allowed to have contact with you or your family with the exception of "talks" which is a supervised discussion held twice per week and involves your brother giving a detailed description of a time where he used drugs or drank. At first he won't know the proper way of doing this and the Talk will last about two minutes. As he grows practiced and learns how to break it apart and embelish it will last about five minutes. Eventually he will be able to return home at nights and he will begin hosting Talks instead.

Your brother will eat breakfast in a "host home" and then start mornings at AARC off with a prayer. Until lunchtime he will take part in "Raps". You can read and see pictures of Raps at http://www.thestraights.com.

After lunch - bck to Raps. Dinner - Raps. etc. He will occasionally be able to make use of the excercise equipment in the building but this will not be often.

The hours of the days differ but eventually he'll return to a host home. They try to send you to a different host home as often as possible so that nobody feels "safe". Most host homes are decent places although there has been some serious issues. Either way he'll probably be happy to return to any household as long as he's out of AARC!

Your brother has the right to request to see his probation officer as often as he pleases and he is allowed to see this probation officer alone where an AARC staffer is not within hearing distance. Please make sure that he is allowed this right! To ensure this you will need to develope a relationship with the probation officer and ask him/her to make phone calls to AARC and speak directly to your brother, and to judge his responses by the tone in his voice, considering that the calls will be monitored. Or He/she can set up a code word during a private meeting that can be used on the phone. Your brother has the right to request being sent BACK to prison, although the probation officer has the right to choose against it. If your brother is being mistreated he will not be able to tell you, and so his probation officer is his only guardian.

You may also want to ensure that your brothers lawyer continues a relationship with him. There have been others who have made the same decision and they were unable to return to prison where they felt safer. However a client did regain freedom because of a consistent lawyer. The theory behind court ordering someone to rehabilitation is that instead of setting a release on a specific date they hand that decision over to the treatment facility. Therfore as long as your brother is in AARC his case is not truly over and his release needs to be negotiated.

I sincerely wish you the best of luck.

Hamiltonf:
You said:
"i am concerned, as my brother has just joined today as an alternative to jail. please get back to me!!"

If you haven't registered on this site I recommend that you do so, then go to private messages and I can give you my e-mail address so that we may talk about this less publicly.  
I would like to know which person or persons in authority are dictating these alternatives.  I am a lawyer in Edmonton and am aware of a number of court rulings regarding AARC.    

Was this court ordered? Probation Officer recommendation? Was it Child Welfare? Social Workers?, Parents?  
I have a feeling that somebody hasn't been adequately informed of their rights in the matter.  Does he have a lawyer?  Does the lawyer have exposure to the two sides of the debate.  Contact me on "Private messages".

By the way, watch W5 on CTV tonight.

Anonymous:
As far as I know the AB courts are no longer court ordering youth to AARC but they might still be giving it as an option to the youth, which most youth take thinking it will be an easy recovery system and they'll be free sooner.

Anonymous:
Does ANYONE realize that even posting on this site there is no so-called 'freedom'.  We are not free to speak our mind, or the truth as we see it...if something comes up that offends 'Velvet' (as she likes to be called, when it is convenient to her), she simply deletes, edits, or changes to her suiting....or, posts a message under 'Anonymous' in order to argue, to pick apart, or to slant what she disagrees with...it's a complete joke!!!  This site is nothing but a world for 'Velvet' to manipulate and control, and release her own obsessive, compulsive, addictive personality on.  If your intentions for this site are freedom-of-speech, if they truly are sincere and honorable, if you can be objective...THEN HAVE THE COURAGE TO LET PEOPLE SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES AND LET THE WORDS STAND ON THEIR OWN!!!

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