Steppingstones To Recovery

Steppingstones To Recovery

ABOUT STEPPINGSTONES TO RECOVERY

Steppingstones, located in Augusta, Georgia, is an outpatient facility with a referral service for more serious recovery options. It treats substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders. The center also has a contract with a men’s recovery residence that provides sober living, support, and oversight to those in recovery.

TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT

One of 107 intensive outpatient programs in Georgia (34 percent), Steppingstones offers a 30-session program. The sessions are 3 hours each over a 6-week period following successful detox, on a part-time yet intensive schedule, designed to accommodate work and family life. The center also offers services for co-occurring mental health disorders.

Steppingstones contracts with a men’s residential facility called “The Awakening Center,” a local supportive, structured living environment for men who are in recovery from alcohol and/or drugs.

Steppingstones also offers a family workshop for all close friends, employers, and loved ones. It also encourages the use of aftercare services to clients for a year after discharge by offering once-weekly meetings.

STAFF CREDENTIALS

Staff information is not available, however, the facility is CARF accredited (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities). It is also one of 101 facilities in Georgia to receive state funding.

ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES

Clients in the residential program live in one of three houses on five acres of land in a semi-rural area nearby the Augusta Mall.

WHAT ALUMNI SAY

To date, a sole reviewer submitted ratings to Best-rehabs.com, giving it four stars. The reviewer rated the accommodations and treatment high, but the meals and nutrition low. In commenting, the reviewer simply said, “Good, kind.”

On Google, two reviewers gave the center five stars and one gave it a single star.[1] The two five-star reviewers praised the staff. The negative reviewer felt the doctor he had did not understand him, however.

FINANCING

Steppingstones accepts most major insurance plans and claims to offer affordable self-pay rates.

Services provided by Steppingstones To Recovery


Service Setting

  • Outpatient
  • Intensive Outpatient
  • Type of Care

  • Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Treatment Approaches

  • Anger Management
  • Brief Intervention
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Contingency Managementmotivational Incentives
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
  • Relapse Prevention
  • Substance Abuse Counseling
  • Trauma-related Counseling
  • 12-step Facilitation
  • License/Certification/Accreditation

  • State Substance Abuse Agency
  • State Department Of Health
  • State Mental Health Department
  • Commission On Accreditation Of Rehabilitation Facilities
  • Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

  • Medicaid
  • Genders Accepted

  • Male
  • Female
  • Steppingstones To Recovery Reviews

  • Treatment Effectiveness
  • Accommodations & Amenities
  • Meals & Nutrition
  • good. Kind.