Tag: Step Springs
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‘Addiction destroys everything’: Nonprofit recovery program for men to open earlier than expected
Step Springs, the first replication of Step Denver, is opening Tuesday in a converted office building off East Garden of the Gods Road in Colorado Springs. The $6.5 million project adds 50 beds for residential addiction treatment and recovery for men who are homeless or otherwise searching for assistance. That’s six days earlier than the…
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Step Springs nears completion of residential addiction recovery center for homeless men
A 55-year-old office building in a commercial and industrial zone off Garden of the Gods Road and Interstate 25 has been gutted and stripped down to its interior shell. Rising out of the wreckage is a new 50-bed rehabilitation center called Step Springs, where addicted men who are homeless or on the verge will get…
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Successful residential addiction recovery program coming to Colorado Springs
It was Nov. 3, 2020, when Derrik Bunyon walked into Step Denver. He’d spent much of the previous two years living on the streets of the Mile High City, using alcohol and drugs to numb the pain after his mother died in 2018. He had been living with her, but found himself without a permanent…