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Women's Treatment |
 | Detox |
| Prenatal Detox |
| Women's Residential |
| Maternal Addiction Centers |
| Sangamon House Recovery Home |
| Haymarket / Maryville |
A social-setting detoxification is provided for women seeking to withdraw from alcohol or other drugs. The unit's 13 beds are available for a three- to five-day stay.
Women may be referred by family members, themselves, social workers, the courts and others. Assessments and recommendations for levels of treatment are offered and referrals are made for further services.
This is also a social-setting detox, intended for pregnant women. Four beds are available in the Maternal Addiction Center for a stay of three to five days. An opiate-addicted prospective client would need medical approval for detox prior to admission.
This program offers a variable stay, up to 28 days in a 16-bed unit. Targeting the problem of relapse prevention, it is tailored to individual client needs and includes:
| A structured daily schedule |
| Group therapy |
| Individual counseling |
| Educational lectures and films |
| Parenting classes |
| Health education |
| Self-help meetings |
Haymarket Center opened the first Maternal Addiction Center (MAC) in the Midwest in March, 1990, offering long-term residential care to chemically-dependent women at any time during their pregnancies. The goal of the program is to promote drug-free living and to insure drug-free births with enhanced maternal-child attachment, returning mother and child to a non-drug-using environment.
Experience during ensuing years has demonstrated that fully 85 percent of the women entering their program have not had pre-natal care with the current pregnancy. A majority have older children - on average four to five - of whom at least two have been born drug positive and with low birthweights.
For those who remain at Haymarket Center until they deliver, all but a handful have given birth to healthy drug-free babies, demonstrating that good nutrition and prenatal care and the desire to abstain from drugs or alcohol in this positive, save and structured environment can bring about the desired results. Women who come through the program are also more open than before to responsible family planning.
The two MAC units offer 32 beds and accept pregnant women at any time. This residential program offers an open-ended stay.
Following detox, a highly-structured daily schedule is the routine, with time allotted to aerobics, meditation, classes, counseling, and other appropriate activities.
Classes teach homemaking skill, parenting and nutritional guidance with hands-on experience in the unit's small kitchen.
Recreation therapy and leisure time planning take place daily.
Medical referrals are made as needed, with each mother-to-be visiting a physician regularly.
Family involvement and counseling are major concerns, as are planning for appropriate shelter and continuing recovery for the client after her baby is delivered.
There is no charge to the client during her stay.
A residential facility, the Sangamon House Recovery Home, is available at Haymarket House to recovering women who need further treatment to maintain their sobriety. They may bring their children up to age 4 1/2 to live with them.
They pay an affordable fee for residential living, with the amount a percentage of the client's income from welfare or regular employment, on a sliding scale.
In addition to outpatient aftercare services, residents are encouraged to attend school, assisted with job search for employment and may also take part in the Haymarket Center apprentice program. They have the primary responsibility for their children, and so must arrange for day-care or babysitting during school or work periods.
Child development specialists are available to provide assistance with identified developmental issues of their children, and family education is a primary focus for all clients.
Residents have private rooms with beds for one or more children living with them. Older children may visit on weekends. Clients share common areas for meals and recreation.
Cultural enrichment is made available frequently through attendance at special events.
Haymarket Center offers three programs for recovering and chemically-dependent mothers of newborns at Haymarket/Maryville, on West Montrose Avenue, just west of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
In a sheltered environment, post-partum women may being or continue substance abuse recovery while living near or with their newborns.
This program serves women who do not have or plan to seek custody of their newborns. With 16 beds and a 60- to 90-day length of stay, this primary substance abuse treatment program focuses on educational and vocational needs of the post-partum woman in recovery.
Clients have newborns either in temporary custody of the Department of Children and Family Services or in a family member's care while the client is seeking custody. The focus is on recovery for the post-partum woman while bonding with their baby, who is housed in the connecting facility maintained by the Department at 710 West Montrose. As treatment progresses, the baby may join the client in residence in the 16-bed unit.
Provides extended treatment for recovering women. They may have their newborns living with them while they integrate parenting with their recovery. Four transitional beds provide infant/mother transitions, and with progress a toddler may join them, in rooms that hold cribs for newborns and beds for toddlers with their mother. Aftercare planning is a special focus, and clients may go to school or vocational training or to work during part of the treatment day. Appropriate counseling is provided and the length of stay varies from six to nine months.