Hills Recovery Center

About Hills Recovery Center

Hills Recovery Center is a sober living operator in Killen, Alabama, providing certified recovery housing for women in Lauderdale County. It runs a twelve-month Christ-centered residential recovery program organized in four phases, under the motto repair, restore and redeem.

A Women's Recovery Housing Provider in the Shoals

The operator works in Killen, a small town in Lauderdale County east of Florence, and serves the Shoals region. It is a program organization. The offer is a year of structured residential recovery with classes, groups and life skills work attached, aimed at women whose shorter attempts have not held. The Christian framing is explicit and central to how the program is designed.

Four Phases and What This Sober Living Operator Expects

The twelve months are divided into four phases, each intended to hand a resident more responsibility than the last, so the woman leaving at the end has the confidence and the practical tools to stay free of addiction. Phased design is an operator-level choice with real consequences. It requires staff to assess and advance residents, it creates a defensible basis for differences in privileges, and it gives a resident a visible measure of progress in a year that could otherwise feel undifferentiated.

Classes and Groups Beyond the Recovery Home

The center runs Life Recovery and Celebrate Recovery groups alongside Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and adds anger management, GED classes, financial planning and employment development, with referrals out to mental health counseling. The education and money pieces determine what happens after discharge. A woman who leaves with a GED, a plan for her finances and recent work history is in a materially different position from one who leaves with a year of sobriety and nothing else on paper.

Certification Under an Alabama Sober Living Operator

The operator's housing is certified at Level III by the Alabama Alliance for Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification is voluntary in Alabama, which certifies treatment providers and leaves recovery residences unregulated, so the AARR listing is the only public record of the operator's housing standards. It commits the organization to a code of ethics, written fee and rule disclosure before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and an external complaint process.

Serving Lauderdale County and Northwest Alabama

Florence is the seat of Lauderdale County and the largest of the Shoals cities, with the courthouse, the hospital and the University of North Alabama. Muscle Shoals, Sheffield and Tuscumbia sit across the river. The four cities function as one labor market and one service area, and an operator in Killen sits inside it. Certified women's recovery housing in northwest Alabama is scarce, and women reach this operator from Colbert, Franklin and Limestone counties as well as Lauderdale.