Graniteville House

Hi my name Tonya L Harrison, I attended Graniteville in sweet valley pa. The owners were so understanding but stern and personally thats what helped me with my struggles, I needed to be in a place where they practiced different types of religions and never pushed any of them on you. Very lovely place i would recommend a stay with them , it's been 5 year's since I've been there and I am still in recovery from all drugs .I'm currently working on going to school for behavioral sciences, and I work at a local blue stone quarry that I enjoy very much. God bless you and your recovery 🙏 picture on the left i was still using, picture on the right is myself now.

When you get the intake coordinator be prepared to be told that there is over a month wait. I've been told by multiple people there's several beds available and I was told by my aftercare coordinator that is the only answer he ever gets so he doesn't even give this program as an option for aftercare. Which sucks cuz I've heard great things about it. First of all it took Amanda Diamond 4 days to even return my call. Now I can understand not being in the office or maybe not working every day of the week but 4 days to return a call? A call to someone that's trying to save their life? A call to someone that is clearly interested in the program because they continue to call and continue to try to get in!! If you're the intake coordinator you're not doing this place any favors by holding beds for over a week now. So, which is it you have a wait list or you have open beds? Because with my general knowledge of how this works..an open bed is an open bed! Unless of course that person is scheduled to come in in a few days maybe. Or they're trying to rack a higher bracket of insurance for money. To hold beds for weeks and tell people that there's a month and a half wait list. Something isnt adding up. The few people I do know in recovery in that area agree that she's not very helpful or forthcoming.

Fantastic group of workers

I was greatful enough to have stayed in this wonderful establishment for a few months about 3 years ago. It was a blessing. The staff are great and really work with you . The females I was there with were an absolute pleasure to be around. The rooms are pretty big if I'm being honest. It has a comforting feeling as soon as you walk in . If life hadn't got lifey which we all know happens I would have absolutely stayed longer.

I I have been at Graniteville since February 6th. The owner is amazing as well as the counselors. Oddly enough, And it's something i've never experienced somewhere else, the techs are ignorant. And I mean to the point of causing problems for me Whereas I will get a punishment. Or honest-to-God lying outright in order to take away my only privilege, which is a store run for 40 minutes once a week. On anything and everything that means the world to me I swear they legit Outright lie. Honestly i'm struggling to understand the reasoning for them doing that. All I know is that the consistent efforts on their end To make me out to be something I'm not has taken such a toll on my mental and physical health.

As with any place of business there are always going to be flaws, as well as with us as individuals. Honestly I can say this place helped me learn how to build a foundation for me recovery. I’m going on a year and a half sober and I don’t think without their stepping stone and support that I’d be where I am today. I had issues with my counselor but as soon as I brought it to their attention they made the necessary adjustments for me to feel more comfortable le. I recommend this place to anybody that is struggling.

Graniteville is one of the few amazing places to find recovery in this area. They are so patient yet they are firm. In the 4 months I was there they completely helped to shape who I became in order to succeed in recovery. They taught me how to be accountable responsible, how to follow rules that were in place to help me, showed me the things that were possible for me if I applied myself. They gave me every resource I could ask for and then some. They are one of the few facilities that will take women right off the street when they are struggling and have nowhere else to turn. They know that no one is perfect especially in early recovery. When you make a mistake they give you the opportunity to correct it whereas other halfway houses might immediately kick you out in similar situations to those I went through and ones I witnessed while I was living there. They give you a lot of privileges and a lot of freedom that you couldn't dream of in other facilities. The people who work there genuinely care about you as a person and you're not just a number or a dollar sign. I went into graniteville in March of 2022 and here I am with over 1 year of recovery and approaching one year since I stepped foot in the facility. I really cannot thank them enough for all of the guidance they showed me. I cannot recommend graniteville enough. If you or a loved one is struggling with addiction or struggling with recovery I highly recommend you get in touch with them.

Tldr: the recovery aspect of things is great , trying to rebuild your life from there is nearly impossible . You will get the skills you need to stay clean , but if you have nothing outside of that place it is virtually impossible to find an apartment a vehicle and a job while staying there. Other than a few big issues I had here id say it was a good place. It does promote stability and provide resources for recovery and trauma. It helped me learn to be part of a community and be assertive. They took us to meetings often and let us find new ones to try from time to time. Most of the staff had a great attitude. One tech was family of the owner and im not sure if shes still there but she would often antagonize residents and follow them when they tried to step away to calm down. That was my first issue with the place, she was in the wrong but wouldnt be compelled to change her behavior cause she was family. When i was there there was a requirement to get a job to level up and graduate out. There was very little options for getting transportation and that made working very difficult since the house is in the boonies a solid few miles of hills from the nearest store and about 10 miles from the nearest shopping complex. I made it work but it wasn't easy and i got in trouble a few times when i had to take an uber home because a coworker carpool fell through. There needs to be more flexibility around working if its going to be a requirement and no punishments for adapting to a plan falling through. The nail in the coffin was, as a punishment for ubering home they took my home visit away the following week. It wouldn't have been a big deal otherwise, but my insurance was not going to let me stay there any longer than two more weeks and I had plans to purchase a car and look at an apartment during that home visit with my fiance. I had no other way of doing this without going on that visit. By taking that away they essentially made sure I would either have to go to a sober living home, a shelter, or back to my mother's house where she was still using drugs. It made me wonder if this was a way of pushing me into the company's own sober living home. I was beyond livid, I had enough money to buy my vehicle that day and had enough for first month's rent and security saved as well I left Ama the day I was supposed to have that home visit so I can go do the things I needed to do to move forward with my life. While these things that went wrong while I was a patient there were fairly big and really upset me at the time the program still did help to instill the things I needed to know as a community member in recovery. Due in part to the things I learned and experienced there I'm over 2 years clean today.