ABOUT OPTIONS RECOVERY SERVICES
Located in downtown Berkeley, Calif., Options Recovery Services offers outpatient treatment and sober living facilities for adults struggling with substance use disorder and/or mental health disorders. It is one of 1,016 outpatient treatment centers in California.
The facility offers a variety of rehab assistance services, such as drug testing and counseling services to help clients maintain their sobriety. The facility also offers treatment programs throughout the day and evening to accommodate clients’ schedules. For clients needing monitored detox and sober living services, the facility offers transitional housing for program graduates.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
The available treatment programs are based on the 12-step method. The available treatment options include gender-separate day treatment, co-ed evening programs, aftercare, a mental health clinic and sober-living facilities. Each program follows a similar method including a 12-step study, individual counseling, and relapse prevention. These treatments are supported by a variety of activity-based methods including self-esteem groups, relaxation training, yoga, anger management, acupuncture, and other services. Best-rehabs.com reviews also indicated that work therapy is provided via a carwash staffed by sober-living residents.
The evening program is designed specifically for clients who are working or studying. Both day and evening programs last 12 months and offer unlimited weekly aftercare upon completion. Transitional housing is available for qualifying participants and graduates. The center also offers therapy and individual case management services for mental health disorders as needed to further treatments.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
The center employs a variety of staff members in different fields including a physician along with a marriage and family therapist with a certification as an addictions counselor and experience in the program. The facility’s staff is trained to handle a variety of concerns and maintain a safe and productive recovery environment. In California, 90.9 percent of facilities are certified or licensed.
ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES
Options offers 110 beds at recovery centers in Oakland and Berkeley. The facility also works with the Shelter Plus Care program to provide an additional 26 beds for permanent housing services. These beds are reserved for qualifying clients with HIV/AIDS and mental illness. The six individuals polled by Best-rehabs.com to date gave the organization’s accommodations and its cleanliness ratings of three out of five stars.
WHAT ALUMNI SAY
The six alumni who submitted reviews to Best-rehabs.com to date are mixed. Three were positive, one was mixed, and two were negative. The positive reviewers indicated that they had recommended the facility many times, and often spoke of it in glowing terms: “This program saved my life and gave me everything I needed to recover,” alum Allen wrote in a review. A number reviewers also praised the low cost of treatment.
Two reviewers also praised the life skills they were taught at Options. Alum Patricia wrote that Options taught her how to manage money and care for her children while a fellow anonymous alum praised the program for helping him get on track with his education.
Some individuals, however, complained of poor conditions and a lack of services: Two alums who submitted negative reviews suggested that the amenities were lacking and the carwash labor they performed as part of the therapy was less than desirable.
Per reviews on Google, the facility was ranked very highly, earning 4.5 out of five stars from 22 clients.[1] A majority of these reviews complimented the staff for their compassion and competency.
FINANCING
There is currently no information provided on the facility’s website regarding its costs. Two alumni reviewers on the affordability of treatment gave it five out of five stars.
[1] https://goo.gl/cV6Itz