Fred HoodResidential Treatment in Lexington, KY
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The Shepherds House provides comprehensive treatment for substance use disorder across the Central Kentucky region. Founded in 1989 by Fred Hood, a parishioner at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Lexington, the organization delivers a wide range of treatment options including recovery housing programs, inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient programs with housing, and substance abuse programs in detention settings. The organization operates multiple facilities across Kentucky including recovery housing programs at various phases of treatment (Bonnie Brae, Lyndhurst, and Fontaine), inpatient treatment at a Level 3.5 and 3.1 facility in Lexington, and partnerships with other recovery housing providers. Their approach emphasizes 12-step programs, individual therapy, community living, group therapy, employment support, and daily activities to help clients rebuild their lives in sobriety.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
12-step facilitation
Twelve-Step Facilitation. Helps you engage with mutual-aid fellowships (GA, AA, SMART) as a recovery community rather than a solo grind.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Transitional housing, halfway house, or sober home
Setting
- Outpatient
- Residential/24-hour residential
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Long-term residential
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Case management service
- Early intervention for HIV
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Transportation assistance
- Suicide prevention services
Education & counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Substance use disorder education
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Individual counseling
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Young Adults
- Adults
Special programs
- Adult men
- Veterans
- Members of military families
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced trauma
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