Sober living center marks first year since re-opening
BRANSON MO NEWS: A sober living center just celebrated its first year of being re-opened.Simmering Center was closed in 2015 by Burrell Behavioral Health due to finances, according to Rod Glaze, who heads the center’s finance and marketing department. The center is on Rinehart Road and first opened in 1991 under the name of Tri-Lakes Sigma House.After a 15-month lull, the center reopened in February 2017, Board President Merna Eppick said.
“It was for the community, by the community,” Eppick said. “We wanted to make sure it remained like that.“We felt that the community, in effect, voiced its desire that some place like this existed, and we wanted to make sure that it continued.”The center holds 37 beds and needed a bit of renovating before re-opening its doors.“The building had sat empty. There was mold. Equipment was failing,” Glaze said.Volunteers used 90 gallons of paint in the building, Eppick said.In the last 12 months, Simmering Center has worked with around 300 people from across southwest Missouri, and many are at the center on a long-term basis.“To us, that sends the message that we’re doing something right. They want to stay, they like what they’re getting, they’re rebuilding their life in a safe environment,” Eppick said.When it re-opened, Eppick said one major change was not to bring back treatment, but rather, to focus on sober living.“We knew we were going to have some services that mimic treatment,” Eppick said.Treatment is over in a “blink of any eye,” Eppick said.“What we provide is a safe place for you to go through that withdrawal and then start picking up and utilizing some tools,” she said. “The second part is that when they leave there, we want them to have gained the tools to remain productive members of …
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