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I lived in what was known as Faith House in 1988. I am so thankful for that house. It was maddening at times due to growth in early recovery; staff was pleasant, fun, strong in faith & heart & caring. I graduated in March, 1989, & moved in with 2 other graduates ...
About Community Healthlink – Beryl’s House
Beryl’s House is a 25-bed residential recovery facility for women including pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. This facility is located in the heart of Worcester, Massachusetts. They’re a program of Community Healthlink, a premier provider of accessible substance use recovery, mental healthcare and homeless support in Central Massachusetts.
Safe and Supportive Residential Recovery in Worcester
Beryl’s House boasts a safe and supportive recovery community where women are equipped with the life skills needed to stabilize and lead a productive life free from drugs or alcohol.
Most clients come directly from an approved referral or ongoing program having completed a Section 35 civil commitment. They prioritize care for pregnant women, women aged 18 to 22 and women living with co-occurring disorders. The program guides these women toward lasting sobriety while ensuring the homeless ones are rightfully housed.
They strive to strengthen families via parenting skills building and linkage to community services to help with stable jobs. It’s all about enhancing the quality of life, health and wellbeing of residents alongside their commitment to self-care. The facility is fully equipped to optimize comfort for residents and includes two rooms for pregnant and postpartum women with babies. Residents benefit from 24/7 staff support as they navigate recovery.
Tailored Services for Lasting Healing
Beryl’s House offers various supportive services to help residents achieve lasting healing. These encompass substance use treatment, psychiatric and domestic violence counseling and health education.
Substance use treatment may include both group and individual sessions tailored to help residents build coping skills, develop healthy habits and work towards lasting abstinence. The program incorporates activities that encourage personal growth, self-esteem building and parenting skills development.
Residents receive life skills and vocational training to help them build job readiness and successfully reintegrate into the community. The full spectrum of services includes case management. Case managers help clients navigate recovery and connect with essential resources such as housing, employment and healthcare. This keeps clients on track with their goals as they move forward.
Latest Reviews
Adwoa Christine
Reviewed on 03/04/2025
If you are considering working there please don’t. There is no order in that place, staff take their anger and frustration from the clients in each other. The client are allowed to do or say w.e they want, and being around them is extremely tiring and draining. They will drain you of every energy in your body. And the clients are ungrateful, disrespectful and can’t do nothing for themselves, but are always telling the staff what to do. And people steal in that house.
I had to get my daughter out of there the staff was horrible no compassion let them it all day with no groups to help them awful awful very rude people and I will be contacting the state to put in a complaint
Staff there are super uncompassionate, mean to clients and love to make clients miserable!! Staff don't care, they have no background with substance abuse and look down on people that do! Esp the director!! This place is a hell house!!!
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Other Forms of Payment
Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.
Sliding scale payments are based on a client's income and family size. The goal is to make treatment affordable to everyone. By taking these factors into account, addiction recovery care providers help ensure that your treatment does not become a financial burden to you or your family, eliminating one barrier to care.
Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.
Medicaid is a state based program that helps lower-income individuals and families pay for healthcare. Medicaid covers addiction treatment so those enrolled can use their coverage to pay for rehab. When a program accepts Medicaid the client often pays very little or nothing out of their own pocket.
Addiction Treatments
Levels of Care
Inpatient Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.
24-Hour Clinical Care At certain points in the recovery process, it's important to have support available 24/7. 24-hour clinical care offers a safe environment in which to recover from drug or alcohol addiction in peace, knowing medical detox and other treatment will happen with professionals on hand.
Treatments
The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.
Addiction is a highly complex problem, and drug rehab in Massachusetts is often necessary to address it. These programs treat physical, mental, and relational issues that are involved. Treatment empowers individuals to manage these issues without the use of drugs.
Many of those suffering from addiction also suffer from mental or emotional illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, or anxiety disorders. Rehab and other substance abuse facilities treating those with a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder administer psychiatric treatment to address the person's mental health issue in addition to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
A combined mental health and substance abuse rehab has the staff and resources available to handle individuals with both mental health and substance abuse issues. It can be challenging to determine where a specific symptom stems from (a mental health issue or an issue related to substance abuse), so mental health and substance abuse professionals are helpful in detangling symptoms and keeping treatment on track.
Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.
Programs
Adult Program
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
Young Adult Program
Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.
Clinical Services
Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.
In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.
Life skills trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.
Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.
Amenities
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Private Setting
Staff & Accreditations
Staff
Gordon Benson
President
Brian Daly, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Lori Simkowitz-Lavigne, MA, LMHC
CCO
Donald Smith
Chief Compliance Officer
J. Anthony Irsfeld
VP, Quality Improvement
Amanda Vasquez, M.S., LMHC
VP, Recovery Environment & Supports (RES)
Stephanie Manzi
VP, Substance Use Disorder Services
Danielle Rose
VP, Crisis Services
Accreditations
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
CARF Accreditation: Yes
Contact Information
2 Sigourney Street
Worcester, MA 01605
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Edited by:
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