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Progress House, the oldest and largest recovery residence in Indiana, this week unveiled a $4 million renovation and expansion of its facility near downtown Indianapolis.
Both floors of Progress House, 201 Shelby Street, were refurbished with new or additional amenities. Progress House officials said the improvements are expected to help the facility provide a comfortable and supportive place for people to live as they receive counseling, health care and peer support during long-term recovery.
In 2019, Progress House became a subsidiary of Aspire Indiana Health, nonprofit community health system that offers primary medical care, behavioral health care, group and individual counseling, 12-step programming, case management, skills training, medication-assisted treatment, peer support services, recovery coaching, and employment services.
Progress House has 88 beds, plus 58 beds of Next Step Recovery Housing.
The funding for the renovation came from a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment and a capital campaign with contributions from groups including the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Foundation and Merchants Bank of Indiana.
“People in the recovery community have long known that Progress House offers some of the best programming available. Now we have the physical space to match those services,” Darrell Mitchell, Aspire vice president of recovery capital, said in written remarks. “The merger of Progress House and Aspire Indiana Health allowed the building of a model for treating substance use disorder that sets the industry bar in its outcomes.”
Progress House was founded in 1961 by a small group of people who recognized the need for a recovery setting for people with substance use disorders. Its first location was a small house in the 2000 block of North New Jersey Street with barely enough room for 10 men, according to the program’s website.
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Bravo Progress House !! The folks living on our streets desparately need help with substance abuse and / or mental health issues. It’s not a housing issue…
I’m a supporter of helping the addicts on the street and progress house seems to follow a theme of housing first. It seems they provide housing while in recovery. My understanding is if the candidate does not obeyed by the standards they are evected. It seems that a nice occomidation incentifys them to grow in recovery.
Less privileged should be incentivied rather than just accomidated..