Central East Alcoholism and Drug Council – Women’s Recovery Home

In Charleston, Illinois, Hour House (formerly the Central East Alcoholism and Drug Council) runs an inpatient rehabilitation home for women. They’ve moved to another location in Charleston so this location is now closed.

At this residence, young adult and adult women would receive treatment for alcohol and substance use disorders as well as for co occuring behavioral disorders, extending even to gambling addictions.

Hour House primarily used therapy to intervene in addictive behaviors and assist their patients with recovery. However, their treatments also included medication assisted treatment to ease the initial recovery phases.

Hour House operated as a non profit entity, which allowed them to offer financial assistance or to charge on a sliding scale when the need arose. There were many payment options available for those who didn’t need financial assistance, including self pay, private insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare. By accepting this comprehensive array of payment options, Hour House was able to help women from all walks of life.

Hour House took this philosophy a step further by offering a residential recovery service designed for women with children or families. In these cases, they aimed to provide the women with resources and training to help them manage a sustainable recovery and develop their future independence. Here, women would get additional assistance with education and searching for employment and therapy to help them through parenting.

Hour House’s philosophy was to meet their clients wherever they found themselves and then to give them their independence. Practically, this was implemented in a system with levels. Women with intensive needs would focus firstly on the recovery itself. As they progressed through the system, the idea is for them to pick up more responsibilities, including employment or education. Eventually, they would move to Hour House’s halfway house, where the organization would also shift its approach from direct rehabilitation to something more akin to aftercare.