Eva's Village

I'm a resident here for 4 months in impeccable standing. Have done everything asked of me and more. I turned my life around. My Nana just died, a woman who helped raise me, and the director will not even let me miss a group to go be with my family. A family who for once actually wants me there and I will be another no show like I always was. I can not get enough time to go to the memorial. If you are thinking of coming here, just know it's just more of the same. They don't care about you your just a number. A percentage.

If you *need* a free hot meal or *need* a place to stay, fine. But this place shuffles people in and out of treatment like cattle, rarely ever actually helping anyone. They’re cashing out big time under the guise of “treatment” while the ex addicts that are now employed there abuse their authority. Some of the staff are particularly Deesgraceful. Listening outside of clients bedrooms. Telling them they can leave if they don’t like the treatment…people who are just barely holding into their sobriety. I mean…how dare they ask for basic respect and proper living conditions. Am I right?? Leaking roof? Just throw a tarp up in the ceiling until it caves in. No problem. With the hundreds of thousands this place rakes in for the “cost” of running a treatment facility, if you dare to call it that, I expect so much better. Just as far as basic hygiene. I needed help. I needed a place to live and what I got, what everyone gets, is you either find a place yourself, do all the work yourself, or they’ll find you a homeless shelter. Which they also conveniently run!!!! And it’s much! much! much! nice and cleaner with kinder and more dedicated staff!!!! The fraud!!! I forgot to mention the fraud! The women’s halfway house continued to use my roommates food stamps for almost a year after she left. Food stamps that *must* be transferred into the financial directors name when you arrive. I’m sure that type of financial abuse and outright theft would be stopped, if only the Passaic County Welfare Office weren’t just as morally bankrupt. Who ever run’s the Eva’s social media account, please tell me you did not reply with “what could we have done better?” Better? Better living conditions. Better treatment. Actual treatment and counseling!! Did you not see the ceiling caved in from failure to do basic building up keep while drug court pays $1,000 a night for each client to be in your halfway program???

When I called they said they only take parents that have active DCPP cases. What about the rest of the people that do not have child protective services cases that are trying to get on our feet? All about the $