Greensburg, In. — Speranza House in Greensburg is expected to open as an in-patient treatment facility for treatment of opioid addiction in August of 2018. Up until now, this type of facility was not available locally.
Local resident Teresa Ruble is behind the effort, and has worked as volunteer at treatment facilities and organized a Celebrate Recovery group at the Lifeline Wesleyan Church in 2013.
Ruble says the program is modeled after a treatment program in Connersville and will house up to eight women when it opens.
The facility will be open to women 18-years-old and over, who are not a registered sex offender or a have violent background.
The program is a 12-month session that provides life skills, job training, financial literacy, parenting classes, relationship classes, time management and healthy food planning.
Statistics show heroin use among women has increased 100 percent between 2002 and 2013.
