The Women's Recovery Center at Hazelden in Minnesota

Hazelden's commitment to women-specific addiction treatment is unparalleled. Thanks to Hazelden's Women's Recovery Center in Center City, Minnesota, the opportunity for lifelong recovery from addiction and co-occurring disorders has never been better for women. With its sun-drenched spaces and inviting gathering rooms, Hazelden's state-of-the-art Women's Recovery Center provides the ideal setting for today's most innovative clinical care and treatment programming tailored to women.

Brenda Iliff, clinical director of the center, says accessing addiction treatment has always been an issue for women. "We hear the same shaming statements we heard 50 years ago: ‘Women who are drunks are the lowest of the low.' Add socioeconomic factors like a lack of financial resources or health insurance to pay for treatment and child care, and it's easy to see why women hide their addiction longer." The creation of a center specifically for women--a safe, healing, respectful, comfortable, and inviting venue of care--helps remove some of those barriers to care, Iliff adds.

"With a new center, program enhancements, and our new continuing care initiative, opportunities for lifelong recovery for women have never been better at Hazelden."
--Brenda Iliff, clinical director of Hazelden's Women's Recovery Center