On the outside, it looks like an oversized house on a block of ordinary houses.
Inside, it is filled with the activities of the people who live there, people making an earnest effort to get their lives on track.
Corner House is in the business of wellness, offering a broad range of services from substance abuse treatment to programs to help clients find and keep jobs.
“We give them the tools to sustain recovery; we provide lots of support through therapy and we encourage them to become employed as soon as they can,” said Corner House director Sarah Riley-Hansen. “We want them to be productive citizens.”
The recovery house offers a broad range of treatment for its clients, from inpatients focused on leaving destructive habits behind to outpatients trying to fit back into society. Its client base soon will expand thanks to a $308,000 award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, making Corner House the only recovery organization in the state to get money from the $17 million grant program. According to the VA, the program is intended to help reduce the number of veterans who are homeless on any given night by 15 percent, or about 131,000 veterans across the country.
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