Services provided within the family context, particularly the mother/child bond, in order to foster healthy family functioning and family intactness and reduce out-of-home placements of young children and to assist in stopping the cycle of family violence, abuse, and neglect as well as to provide for the development of safe, economically viable, constructive lifestyles. Arc specializes in the development and implementation of programming based on current research and best practices and in response to the special needs of women at risk for criminal activity and/or substance abuse on a residential, day treatment, and outpatient basis in dane county, fond du lac county, and the state of wisconsin.

Arc healthy beginnings provides specialized recovery services for pregnant and postpartum women affected by chemical abuse in addition to providing a women's specific treatment model. Arc comprehensive outpatient services for women and their families provides comprehensive assessments, case management, transitional housing, integrated aoda/trauma programs, intensive outpatient services and increased treatment flexibility to improve the success of women and their families. Arc's respect program provides diversion services on an outpatient basis for women involved in prostitution. Arc served 232 women, 33 children, and 23 family members of all ages during the 2016-2017 fiscal year. arc community services residential programs include the arc house and arc milwaukee women's programs, which provide women-specific program services that specialize in chemical dependency; the arc maternal and infant program, which provides pregnant female offenders a safe stable environment that enables them to become responsible parents and develop the necessary skills to live in a stable, lawful manner in the community; arc dayton, and arc fond du lac, transitional living placement programs that assist women with community reintegration and serves as a diversion alternative for women at risk of incarceration; and a transitional living reintegration facility. During the 2016-17 fiscal year, arc's residential services assisted 290 women and 31 infants with 20,403 adult bed days and 2,004 infant bed days with an average length of stay of 100 days per adult female offender.