When the first residents of the Liberty Place women’s recovery center arrive June 30, they will be welcomed into a home-like environment.
Pictures will be hanging on the walls and colorful bedspreads will make the bedrooms cheerful and inviting.
In addition to fine bed linens and wall decor, the bathrooms will be stocked with soaps, shampoos and other toiletries.
“We want this to be a place where women can heal,” said Liberty Place Director Jeri Allison. “It can be scary coming to a strange place where you are going to live with people you don’t know.”
All of the decorations and other accessories in Liberty Place rooms were donated by local churches, civic groups, businesses and individuals. They spent $700 to $1,000 on each room.
After getting the $3.5 million, 100-bed facility constructed and furnished, “We didn’t have money for accessories, but the community really came through for us,” said Karen Bailey of the Kentucky River Foothills Community Action Partnership, the facility’s managing agency.
The donors spent most of Saturday making up beds, setting up decorations and stocking supplies in the rooms they had “adopted.”
“Our clients will be encouraged to know that their rooms were sponsored by supportive members of the community,” Allison said. “As they travel the often difficult road to recovery, they will know that people in this community cared enough about them to decorate and supply their rooms and want them to succeed.”
Karen Steinhauser took a special interest in the room that the Victory World Outreach Center adopted.
“More than 20 years ago, before I became a Christian, I went through a drug addition recovery program,” she said.
She led nine other members of her church’s Room to Bloom ministry which specializes in preparing rooms.
“Last week we fixed up a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom,” Steinhauser said. “We’ll be fixing up bedrooms in Richmond public housing facilities in the near future.”
Liberty Place is much needed, said Dr. Anthony Smith of Gordon and Salter Chartered, as employees of the obstetrics and gynecology practice worked on a room.
“As we care for young, pregnant women, we see a lot of drug addition,” he said.
Smith said he will be providing medical attention to Liberty Place clients.
Liberty Placed is modeled after two successful Kentucky rehab centers, The Healing Place in Louisville and The Hope Center in Lexington. It will serve women from the Sixth Congressional District’s 15 counties.
Peer counselors, most of whom have recovered or are recovering from drug addiction, will work with the Liberty Place clients, Allison said.
“Women who have experienced the struggle of recovery can best help others who want to make the same journey,” she said.
“Liberty Place is clean and safe environment in which women can complete the steps of our proven recovery program.”
In addition to addiction recover, Liberty Place will teach life skills, such as personal money management. Its clients will graduate to education and job training programs. Placement services will help clients find work.
The rehab center is combined effort by the city of Richmond’s Section 8 housing program, the Kentucky Housing Corporation, the Governor’s Office for Local Development, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati and the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
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