Recovery Point Program to add women’s facility in Charleston

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A community meeting was held Thursday evening at Mary C. Snow Elementary to provide information about Recovery Point of Charleston.

The substance abuse recovery program, which has provided a successful men’s program in Huntington, will soon be bringing a women’s facility to Charleston. Program Coordinator Rachel Thaxton said that the program will open sometime this year on Stockton Street.

“It’ll house 60 to 100 women. It’s based on peer support and it’s a social model,” Thaxton said. “So people who have gone through the program stay and give back to the women who are just coming in.”

Thaxton thought it was an beneficial that the program is single sex.

“Theres definitely an advantage to just having one gender in a building,” she said. “I think the focus gets skewed a bit when you have men and women in the same facility. This way women can focus on recovery and not so much on the opposite sex.”

Matt Boggs, the Director of Development at Recovery Point in Huntington, said that Recovery Point is a “peer-driven social model”, which means that patients that recover inspire others to get clean as well. He said the Huntington program has had tremendous success.

“In Huntington we’ve been open since January 2011 and seen a success rate of approximately 68 percent,” Boggs said. “We’ve seen reduced recidivism for individuals who graduate our program, we’ve seen an increase in earned income; we’ve seen their families come back together.”

Thaxton said that a new men’s facility will also be opening a new men’s facility in Mercer County in the next couple weeks. Recovery Point is a non-profit organization that keeps costs to about $25 per day, per resident.