This is a difficult review for me to write. Not because I can’t think of anything positive to say but because I don’t know where to begin. I have had a long history with this organization.
Before I say anything further I want to start off by admitting that anyone who has gone through a medically assisted detox and then residential can always find something to criticize about the facility and the staff. There is always a lot of waiting and miscommunication issues.
However, if you are reading this and have gone through this program or a similar program I think it is a very emotional time for people like us. We are literally in emotional and even physical pain which unfortunately there is no one qualified to totally remedy this. They can only help us through it the best they can.
I’ll speak for myself and confess that I expected all my emotional and physical pain to be managed perfectly. I became impatient and selfish when this did not happen to a degree I could live with and in the timeframe I wanted. Even at the time I knew my behavior was inappropriate so I apologized many times. I was always forgiven and treated more than fairly afterwards.
As I said in the first paragraph, I have history with this organization. They have saved my life many times and offered to scholarship me further beyond my original agreement with them.
I moved away for a while out of state and in desperation, I called them. So many of the staff were still there as well as the founders and they remembered me right off the bat and without even having to put up much of an argument for myself they offered to scholarship me.
In this review, I’m just gonna refer to my current experience. If anything, this organization has only improved. One of the founders would visit us almost every day, bearing gifts and taking us to run errands or helping us participate in our own Recovery at meetings, at church and so on.
These people who run this place really care about you. I’m pretty sure this is a non-for-profit institution. I promise you they didn’t make any money off me. They made me feel important and cared about. I wanted to feel that way more than I cared about any luxurious amenities.
That being said, the amenities are more than enough. The location is beautiful. If you’re into exercise, they have plenty of equipment in the backyard or they’ll just take you to a very nice gym in the morning if you’re up for it.
The food there is fantastic. There’s plenty to make for yourself, delicious home-cooked meals on the regular and on other days there’s catering. They’ll take you out to eat after meetings or other events and expose you to the wonderful recovery community in Orange County.
You will receive therapy, doctor visits, and if you just need to rest, you have access to more than enough movies as they have pretty much every streaming service there is. When I was detoxing, access to these was very helpful in comforting my mind and distracting me from the discomfort I was experiencing.
They will not force you to do anything you don’t want to do. They’ll be patient with you as you are getting better. I could give example up upon example of how they did this for me. I was not the easiest client to deal with believe me.
I left SCC on a bittersweet note. I had to leave a little earlier than planned, but that wasn’t their fault nor mine. It was to help other people and I happily agreed to step down to outpatient.
Still though, they did not forget about me and offered to transport me back up on my 30 days, and one day after my 40th birthday to take my chip and to see the friends I made and the ones who hadn’t forgotten about me after being gone for 5 years.
If you or a loved one needs help go to or refer them to SCC
