MHS Family Recovery Center — Local services in Oceanside

I would recommend this place to anyone looking for a better life free from addiction. I was there self referred for 6 months and I could not have imagined a better outcome for myself. I was living on the streets last year and now I have my own apartment in their transitional housing, 2 jobs, and my family back in my life. I am looking forward to beginning schooling to become an AOD counselor myself. I was inspired by the great women who helped me gain my confidence back and change my life who I met at FRC. Again, I cannot recommend FRC enough, I (and my mom and daughter) am eternally grateful for the change they have helped me to make in myself and my life. Yeah, they have strict rules and you are expected to participate in the house and walk a straight line. The rules aren't difficult to follow, there are a lot of them, but none are especially difficult. The structure I got there from doing my best to participate and follow the rules has helped me so much in my life outside there. Really truly if you just focus on yourself and follow the rules your life can change more than you could have ever hoped for. It did for...

FRC took me in as a client.I am 62and getting up at 5:30 to do landscaping is just sad that this is how they keep the place running .all house chores and outside chores as well are done by clients.there are no hired workers at all.. I had spoke to Liz my counselor regarding making a move to serenity due to the fact that I baby Sat some very disturbed children for hours a day.I had a 950.00 dollar cashiers check stolen from me as well 80$ in cash .I put a pass in to go to serenity house to get information .Liz wrote on my pass LETS TALK.I went to her office and was told they would not save my bed and was told to leave.I had not asked them to hold my bed.with no where to go my entire family was on vacation.the second night outside I developed sepsis a deadly disease ad well as pneumonia .I was taken to ICU at Palomar hospital from where I was just released.the never cared if I had a place to go as a senior citizen there concern was non existent. There egos just could not stand the fact that I wanted to go somewhere more suitable for me.how sad they all seem to put a 62 year old...

It's Beyond words how Family Recovery Center has changed my life.............that is still how I feel about getting clean but I was giving credit where credit wasn't due, when I first wrote this post. Initially thankful to FRC when the real Hero's are a few select employees there that do make recovery possible if you want it bad.. but most of the program and people running it have no idea what they are doing, very unorganized and you will get forgotten, pushed around and have to mindfully keep track of your own recovery. More than one occasion I have been sent into relapse mode because of the actions FRC took with no regard for my well-being. What once seemed like a miracle to be given an opportunity to utilise their transitional housing; turned nightmare not once but twice.. from miracle, to nightmare, to separation from my child; not because of relapse but because their mistakes. I have worked hard for every opportunity I have been given and around FRC there are...