About this Recovery Home
The Path Recovery Living for Women in Forest Park, Illinois, is a sober living home for women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. Forest Park is in Cook County.
Certified Recovery Housing In Cook County
The Illinois Association of Extended Care lists The Path Recovery Living for Women in Forest Park as Certified. IAEC is the Illinois affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and certification through it is voluntary for an Illinois residence. Because it is voluntary, a place on the register is something a house sought out rather than something imposed on it, and it is checkable from outside: the association names the residence and its town on a list open to anyone. The register is published by IAEC.
Who The Path Accepts
The Path accepts women with at least 30 days of sobriety. Every resident must be employed full time, in school full time, volunteering full time, or attending an intensive outpatient program within two weeks of arrival. That second condition shapes the household more than any other: within two weeks of moving in, every woman in the house is out of it for a substantial part of the day, so the residence is built around people carrying a daytime commitment rather than around unstructured time.
The Weekly Structure Of The Program
Residents receive weekly individual recovery coaching sessions and weekly recovery planning, and the household holds a weekly community meeting. Twelve-step meetings run on site daily, and two twelve-step meetings per week are required of residents. Written guidelines, expectations and structure are provided to enhance recovery outcomes, and life skills programming runs alongside the recovery coaching. Daily meetings on site set against a two-a-week floor is a combination worth reading carefully: the requirement is modest and the availability is not, so a woman who wants more than the minimum does not have to leave the building to find it.
Support Beyond The House
The Path maintains a referral network for medical, mental health, dental and educational programs. Peer and alumni support runs alongside it, and a woman who completes the program can participate in The Path alumni group and its functions. A referral network is the part of a program that matters once the obvious needs are covered, because dental care and schooling are the sort of thing deferred during treatment that then blocks progress afterward. The alumni group extends the same logic past the end of a stay.
Living In Forest Park
The Path describes Forest Park as combining the unlimited resources of an urban setting with a small-town sense of community. The residence is within walking distance to public transportation. Sober living options in Forest Park sit inside that Cook County setting: Forest Park is a village immediately west of Chicago, and the western branch of the CTA Blue Line terminates there, which is what puts the city's job market and its meeting rooms within reach of a resident without a car.
How The Residence Is Laid Out
Housing at The Path is apartment style, and residents share rooms. There are multiple bathrooms, kitchens and living rooms, with laundry machines on site. Apartment-style housing with shared rooms describes a household where a woman has a roommate rather than a private space, and where the ordinary business of cooking and laundry happens inside the residence itself.
ABOUT US
The Path provides women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction, apartment style living in a quiet suburban neighborhood.
We offer an affordable program fee, supportive staff, clean comfortable rooms, ample storage space, and a well maintained facility with a fully equipped kitchen and laundry room. There is easy access to public transportation, shopping, employment opportunities, and churches.
Our facility provides women with the unique experience they need to grow profoundly thus leading them to maintain physical, emotional, and spiritual sobriety.
