Life Recovery Solutions.

The Life Recovery Solutions Program in Conway, SC was created and started about 13 years ago by Gareth Beshears. Some of the mentors are Joe, Kori, and Dustin. Chaplain Eddie Hill, Director of Programs at J. Reuben Long was instrumental in facilitating the relationship between the Life Recovery Program and the Jail Experience Class. The program offers an introduction to the 12 Steps to Recovery. Participants are sentenced to the program either through a parole officer, or a judge. In 3 phases spanning over approximately 16 months, participants are taught about life, criminality, sobriety, relapse, and recidivism.

Phase I of the program is at J. Reuben Long Detention Center for 10-12 months and participants are introduced to sobriety. Phase I is meant to empower participants to live a pro-social lifestyle. Self-efficacy is taught through classes such as Moral Reconation Therapy, Recovery Dynamics, Socialization, Criminal and Addictive Thinking, Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment, and more.

Phase II is 90 days at the recovery residence in Conway. Participants are required to begin applying skills for pro-social living that they learned in Phase I, such as 90 meetings in 90 days, building a recovery network, maintaining full-time employment, and paying rent or managing finances in order to maintain a healthy, balanced, drug-free lifestyle in recovery.

Phase III requires participants to return to the recovery residence for meetings once a week, for 4 weeks. Peer support mentors oversee participants’ progress and what they have learned through Phases I & II of the program.

After these phases, participants have successfully completed the program.