Written aftercare plan
Built collaboratively with your primary clinician before discharge. Covers outpatient providers, MAT coordination, recovery-community anchors, and a relapse-prevention plan with named coping skills for your specific triggers.
Alumni & aftercare
Recovery doesn't end at the gate.
Seven Arrows' continuing-care program is built around the hardest months — the first 90 days after discharge. Individual aftercare plans, IOP and PHP step-down, sober-living placement, alumni groups, and 24/7 crisis support so you never do the next stretch alone.
At a glance
Six things to know before you discharge.
- Alumni line
- 24/7 phone line for alumni, families, and referrers — answered by experienced staff who understand our program and are here to help you navigate next steps.
- Aftercare plan
- Individualized, written plan built with your primary clinician before discharge — never boilerplate
- Outreach check-ins
- Scheduled check-ins from our discharge planner at 1 week, 2 weeks, 30, 60, and 90 days post-discharge — steady outreach without a clinician-driven schedule
- Step-down
- PHP, IOP, outpatient therapy, and sober-living referrals to vetted partners across Arizona and nationally
- Alumni community
- Weekly virtual meetings, a private alumni app (coming soon), quarterly local meetups in various cities and states, and a yearly reunion at Seven Arrows.
- Re-admission
- If you slip, call the alumni line. Our experienced team is here to offer support, guidance, and resources to help you get back on track. If you decide to re-admit, we’ve got you — with a smooth, supportive, and streamlined process.
The transition
The first year, phase by phase.
Research is consistent: the 90 days after residential treatment carry the highest relapse risk of any window. Our program is built to match the shape of that risk — not to fade out the moment you leave.
Discharge day
The first 48 hours
Highest acute relapse risk of the year
Reentry to a physical environment full of old cues. Our aftercare team plans this window deliberately — a prepared landing spot, who meets you, first 48-hour check-in call, and a structured first-day schedule.
Re-entry
Weeks 1–4
Sleep, appetite, and motivation all normalize slowly
Weekly individual sessions with your Seven Arrows clinician continue by phone or video. IOP or outpatient therapy begins. Early sober-community anchoring: meetings, alumni group, accountability partner.
The danger zone
Days 30–90
Statistically the hardest window for relapse
Early optimism fades into real-life stress. We tighten support, not loosen it — weekly check-ins continue, relapse-prevention plan is rehearsed, and trigger-specific coping skills get practiced in session until they are automatic.
Consolidation
Months 3–12
Identity rebuild, relationship repair, life design
Monthly check-ins with your clinician. Quarterly alumni events. Ongoing psychiatric coordination if medications are involved. This is the year recovery becomes a life, not a project.
The aftercare plan
Six components, built for your life.
Every aftercare plan is written, specific, and portable. Not a checklist template — a document that reflects your clinical picture and where you’re going next.
Outpatient therapist referrals
Vetted referrals to therapists licensed in your home state who specialize in your clinical picture. Warm hand-off with release-of-information so your new provider starts with the full treatment summary.
Psychiatric continuity
If you're on medication, we coordinate directly with a psychiatric prescriber in your area so there is no gap in care. We share med history, dose responses, and the clinical reasoning behind changes during your stay.
Sober-living placement
A vetted list of sober-living homes across Arizona and nationally. We coordinate the move directly, from interview and deposit to first-day arrival, for clients stepping down into that environment.
Alumni program access
Enjoy lifetime access to our alumni community with weekly virtual meetings, daily connection through our private app, in-person meetups, and an annual reunion at Seven Arrows.
Family plan
If family was involved during treatment, aftercare extends to them. We offer guidance and can connect them with resources to support ongoing growth and healing.
The alumni community
Connection that outlasts discharge.
The relationships built during treatment are often the thing that holds best over time. Four ways we keep those threads alive long after you leave the ranch.
WeeklyMondays at 6pm (Arizona time)
Virtual alumni groups
Facilitated alumni-only processing group — open to any alum at any stage of recovery. Attend when you need support, take space when you don’t. All meetings are consistently led by one of our Alumni Coordinators.
QuarterlyFour times a year
Reunion weekends on the ranch
Return to campus for a weekend of groups, meals, sweat lodge, horse time, and reconnection with the staff and peers who held you during treatment. Partners and kids welcome for the Saturday evening event.
OngoingEveryday connection
Private alumni app
A moderated alumni-only app for day-to-day connection — milestones, questions, asks for support, photos from the next chapter. Staff are present but the community runs itself.
PairsMatched pairs
Peer mentorship
Alumni with longer recovery paired with newer alums for structured monthly check-ins. A real relationship with someone who has been exactly where you are.
Relapse prevention
A toolkit you already know how to use.
Relapse is not a sign of failure — it’s a signal that the plan needs adjustment. Six tools built during your stay and rehearsed in aftercare so they’re there when you need them.
Named triggers list
Built in treatment · refined in aftercareYour specific triggers — people, places, times of day, internal states — with a 1-to-10 intensity rating and a matched coping strategy beside each. Not generic "H.A.L.T." — your actual list.
Early-warning signs checklist
Reviewed weekly the first 90 daysThe behavioral and emotional signals that typically precede a lapse for you. Sleep, isolation, resentments, secrets — all named, so you can catch them before they compound.
Urge-surfing + distress-tolerance skills
Deployed in the momentSkills practiced to automaticity during your stay — physiological sighs, TIPP, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, body-scan. Not things you learn in crisis; things your nervous system already knows when crisis arrives.
Emergency contact plan
Always on your phoneA ranked list: primary clinician, Seven Arrows alumni line, sponsor or peer, trusted family. Sequence and when to call each one. When you're in it, you don't have to decide — you just call the next name.
Medication-assisted treatment coordination
Ongoing as indicatedIf MAT (buprenorphine, naltrexone) is part of your plan, we coordinate prescribing continuity and ensure adherence support is baked into aftercare — not an afterthought.
"If I slip" plan
Written before you need itA pre-agreed, written plan for what you will do if you have a lapse. Who to call first, what to do with the substance, what the next 24 hours look like. Designed to prevent a slip from becoming a relapse.
Step-down care
Four rungs down from residential.
Moving from 24-hour residential straight to weekly outpatient therapy is often too steep a drop. The ASAM continuum offers intermediate levels — PHP, IOP, sober living — and we coordinate the warm hand-off to trusted partners at each.
PHP5–6 hours/day · 5 days/week
Partial Hospitalization Program
Highest outpatient intensity — structured day program with group and individual therapy, medication management, and a return home each evening. Recommended for clients needing close clinical containment without 24-hour residential.
IOP3 hours/day · 3 days/week
Intensive Outpatient Program
The most common step-down. Evening-friendly schedule that lets clients return to work or school part-time while continuing group therapy and relapse-prevention work.
OPWeekly
Outpatient therapy
Individual therapy with a licensed provider. We refer to trusted therapists in your home state who share the trauma-informed orientation of your treatment here.
Sober livingResidential · non-clinical
Structured recovery housing
Peer-supported sober homes for clients who need time in a substance-free environment before returning to full independent living. We maintain a vetted list across Arizona and nationally.
Milestones
We remember your dates.
Small markers through the first year and beyond. The kind of recognition that sounds minor on paper but lands hard when it arrives in your mailbox.
30 days
First monthly chip
Mailed to you with a note from your primary clinician.
90 days
Ninety-day call
A structured check-in with your primary — you made it through the hardest window.
6 months
Half-year reunion invite
First reunion weekend invitation if you haven't made it back yet. Travel help available.
1 year
Year-one return
Most alumni return to the ranch around their first anniversary. Dinner, circle, sweat lodge, a whole evening dedicated to your cohort.
2–5 years
Mentor invitation
Opportunity to join the peer-mentorship program. Many alumni find giving back deepens their own recovery.
Every year
Anniversary note
A written note from your clinician on your sobriety anniversary — every year, without fail.
Alumni voices
In their own words .
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Life changing. Completely and totally changed my entire life. I came to 7 Arrows with little will to live, overwhelmed with my past trauma and my addictions ruining me. These people and this place infiltrated my heart and soul. I really cannot put into words what those 41 days did for me.
Jessica Collins
Google review · 5 months ago
I called 24 other facilities in the United States, but this one called to me, spiritually the most. I am a dual diagnosis. The moment I got the call back that I was admitted and arrival date, I had little idea of what was going to happen next. I arrived to find the most genuine humans that walk this earth.
Boots
Google review · 6 months ago
Seven Arrows is a very special place to rest and recover. The remote setting is peaceful, with desert and mountain views on a large property. Incorporating equine therapy as well as native American traditions, the experience is a departure from what one might expect in an urban rehab center.
Josh
Google review · 6 months ago
This place is truly special. They focus on healing from within rather than only treating symptoms of addiction. They have changed my life forever and have shown me that life is a beautiful thing. I would recommend Seven Arrows to anyone struggling with addiction.
Roger McGehee
Google review · 6 months ago
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Call us before it gets too hard.
Alumni, families, and referrers can reach us any hour. For anyone not yet a client, admissions will help you find the right level of care — at Seven Arrows or with a trusted partner.