We believe that each person who walks through our door for residential treatment has a unique story, personality, and set of spiritual beliefs. While our curriculum is consistent, our treatment plans are individualized to meet your specific needs. Stepworks has been in business for over 10 years, helping more than 6,000 clients achieve sobriety! Our long-term success rate is 78% – more than double the national average.
About Stepworks Recovery Centers – Elizabethtown, KY
In operation since 2007, Stepworks Recovery Centers offers rehabilitation services to clients in Kentucky. Located 50 miles south of Louisville, the center in Elizabethtown offers detox, residential care, and aftercare for individuals struggling with substance abuse. It is one of two facilities operated in Kentucky by Stepworks Recovery Centers.
Treatment & Assessment
Clients receive an initial assessment to determine which type of service would work best for them. Alcohol and opiate detox are available. A trained team monitors clients’ progress during detox. Rather than methadone, Stepworks detox utilizes small doses of Subutex. For clients entering the residential program, they may spend the first day or two in detox.
The residential program is 30 days long and incorporates the 12-Steps. Treatment is structured to allow clients to derive strength from one another, and to provide them with the necessary tools for lasting recovery through individual, group, and family therapy and psychoeducation about the nature of addiction and recovery. All clients are also encouraged to participate in daily exercise. Aftercare services are provided to clients, though details about the program are scarce.
Staff Credentials
The organization contracts with a medical professional, who is in contact with on-site staff at all times, and who attends weekly meetings at the facility. According to the facility’s website, group and individual therapy is carried out by trained therapists, though their precise credentials are not provided.
Accommodations & Amenities
Clients live in shared rooms in a 32-bed facility, in line with the organization’s central philosophy that “recovery is better together.” Extracurricular activities include nature walks, activity courses, and basketball. Clients may not have cell phones, laptops, or tablets on-site. Laundry services are available.
What Alumni Say
The seven alumni polled by Best-rehabs.com to date provided mixed reviews. Two of the seven alumni to provide feedback offered positive remarks for the staff; Anna claimed they were nonjudgmental and compassionate and Britney shared that she “loves” them and encouraged staff to “keep up the good work.”
The majority, however, took issue with both particular staff members and staff in general. Two alumni each mentioned that staff were “unprofessional”; one anonymous alum claimed that “If you have problems with another person, the staff doesn’t handle the problem appropriately I definitely wouldn’t go back to this place,” and another claimed that she was left unchecked by her doctor during her entire detox. Two additional alumni agreed that staff were more concerned with money than with the sobriety of the clients. Two alumni, M.R. and an alum who wished to remain anonymous, each described staff with the word “evil” in their written commentary.
While five alumni provided an average rating of four out of five stars for the meals and nutrition, alumni Josh and Carly each mentioned that they didn’t like how little food was served, and didn’t like that “patients responsibility to cook all the other patients too.”
Accommodations and amenities received a rating of 3.5 stars based on ratings from four alumni, but written commentary suggested that those who were dissatisfied were extremely dissatisfied, citing small living quarters and overcrowding.
Isolated pieces of commentary mentioned the difficulty, but overall effectiveness, of Stepworks Recovery Centers’ no cell-phone or laptop rule and limited contact with family during treatment.
At the time of this writing, Google – the only secondary review site to yield any feedback – featured six reviews with a rating of 2.7 out of five stars. One-star reviewer J.T. echoed the anonymous Best-rehabs.com reviewer by writing that most staff were compassionate and understanding, but that others “spoke down on you and didn’t listen nor care about your treatment,” and complained of bullying and a lack of medical expertise. Three-star reviewer Sean praised the physical facility and his detox, but wrote that AA meetings were frequently run by clients, not people with sober time – a practice with which he vehemently disagreed. And five-star reviewer Josh wrote: “Stepworks provides a unique and helpful recovery learning experience.”
What Friends & Family Say
Two reviewers submitted commentary to Best-rehabs.com to date. One was very positive, and the other was negative. One anonymous reviewer gave the center three out of five stars for its holistic options, and four or five stars for all 14 of the other evaluated treatment metrics, including its overall effectiveness, treatment for co-occurring disorders, and counseling options. “Caring staff, effective treatment,” they wrote. “They gave my friend her best chance at repairing her life and moving forward in a positive manner.”
The second reviewer wrote: “Stay 31 days and they won’t let [her] graduate and don’t let [her] call anyone to pick her up she just tuck [sic] off walking.”
Financing
There is currently no information provided on the facility’s website regarding its costs; however, the two individuals polled do date on the center’s affordability gave it two stars and one star respectively.