Recovery Brands, LLC
📍 120 N. Eleventh Street, Springfield, IL 62703
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<p><strong>ABOUT FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTERS, INC.</strong></p> <p>Family Guidance Centers, Inc. (FGC) is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare organization that operates ten locations in Illinois, most of them near Chicago. This center in Springfield, Ill., offers <strong>residential treatment for adults</strong> and <strong>outpatient services for adults and adolescents</strong> seeking treatment for substance abuse. <strong>Medical detox</strong> is administered in partnership with local hospitals.</p> <p><strong>TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT</strong></p> <p>All Family Guidance Centers, Inc. clients are assessed upon admission to determine the appropriate level of care. They are also re-assessed as they undergo treatment to make sure the program is successfully addressing their individuals needs.</p> <p>Treatment consists of talk therapy alongside educational courses to teach clients about addiction. The main goal of the facility is to remove clients from toxic environments so that they can focus on recovery. </p> <p>The <strong>residential facility is staffed 24 hours a day</strong>. Clients participate in group therapy and one-on-one counseling, as well as work on honing key recovery skills, such as fostering interpersonal choice, preventing relapse, and developing a supportive (and sober) social network.</p> <p>Specialized programming is available for a range of conditions. These include child and family services, homelessness, women and children, criminal justice clients, and specific learning disabilities. Clients can enroll in these services as needed based on their assessment.</p> <p><strong>STAFF CREDENTIALS</strong></p> <p>The treatment team at Family Guidance Centers, Inc. includes medical doctors, nurses, and health educators, along with psychologists, social workers, Master-level counselors, and certified addictions counselors.</p> <p><strong>ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES</strong></p> <p>There is currently no information provided by the facility regarding its living arrangements and related offerings. The sole individual polled by Rehabs.com to date gave the facility three out of five stars for its accommodations and amenities.</p> <p><strong>WHAT ALUMNI SAY</strong></p> <p>Rehabs.com has not yet received reviews from this facility’s alumni, but the Springfield location did receive <strong>two mixed reviews on Google at the time of this writing</strong>. <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></small> The first, from Nathan, was negative: he awarded the rehab just one out of five stars and wrote: “People on phones, people asleep. Sometimes Treatment was watching a movie.” The other reviewer was more positive, giving four out of five stars without additional commentary.</p> <p><strong>WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY</strong></p> <p>At the time of this writing, one loved one provided feedback to Rehabs.com about Family Guidance Centers. The feedback was mostly negative. </p> <p>Marcia, the sole loved one gave the facility mostly two and three out of five stars across 15 different evaluated metrics, including treatment effectiveness, counseling options, cleanliness, and the staff’s level of training and experience. She also awarded just one star to the rehab for its level of family participation, and when asked, on a scale of one to five, if she would recommend the facility, she gave a rating of two.</p> <p><strong>WHAT STAFF SAY</strong></p> <p>Rehabs.com has not yet received any reviews from this facility’s staff, but the three former employees who submitted reviews to Indeed gave a Chicago-based Family Guidance Centers, Inc. one four-out-of-five star review and two five-out-of-five-star reviews. <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a></small> The staff praised the work environment and management and noted that they enjoyed helping clients.</p> <p><strong>FINANCING</strong></p> <p>According to <a href="http://treatment-facilities.healthgrove.com/l/18143/Family-Guidance-Centers" target="_blank">HealthGrove</a>, the Springfield facility accepts state insurance other than Medicaid, military insurance, and Access to Recovery Vouchers. They also offer sliding scale fees to clients who qualify.</p> <p><small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> <a href="https://goo.gl/7BHcnL" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/7BHcnL</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Family-Guidance-Center/reviews?fcountry=US&floc=Chicago%2C+IL" target="_blank">https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Family-Guidance-Center/reviews?fcountry=US&floc=Chicago%2C+IL</a></small></p>
— Melanie Green · 2017-12-27 12:13:17 PST
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