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If cost is the reason you have not called anywhere yet, a low-cost rehab in Mississippi just got 50 beds bigger.
Jacob’s Well Ministries has relocated its men’s residential recovery program to Lumberton after 15 years operating in the Poplarville area, according to reporting from the Roy Howard Community Journalism Center published by the Mississippi Free Press.
The new facility on East Main Avenue houses a six-month residential program combining faith-based counseling, life skills training, accountability structures, and vocational opportunities.
Who Qualifies for Free or Low-Cost Treatment
The program serves men seeking residential recovery, and the ministry accepts referrals from several directions.
Judges, probation officers, attorneys, drug court programs, the Mississippi Department of Child Protective Services, and other state agencies all send people there.
That referral pathway matters more than it might sound. For people who are justice-involved, a court or agency referral is frequently the route into residential treatment that does not require paying a private-pay rate up front.
Organization president Susan Johnson described agencies recognizing that some cases reflect a treatment need rather than a criminal one.
The ministry operates as a registered nonprofit and states in its published materials that it partners with local foundations, churches, and community organizations to offset the cost of a resident’s stay, funded in part through donations and its thrift stores in Purvis, Picayune, and Poplarville. It describes a sponsorship model intended to keep financial status from determining who can get help.
How to Access These Resources
If you are trying to reach a program like this one, a few practical steps apply almost anywhere:
Contact the organization directly and ask what a resident actually pays per month, what that figure covers, and whether sponsorship or scholarship funding is available. Ask specifically whether a sliding scale exists.
If there is any court, probation, or child welfare involvement in your situation, ask your attorney, probation officer, or caseworker whether they can make a referral.
Agency referrals often unlock placement and funding that individual applicants cannot access on their own.
Call your county or state substance use helpline to find out what publicly funded beds exist nearby. Dialing 211 connects you to local community resources in most of Mississippi.
What the Program Involves
Residents take part in counseling, group therapy, recovery activities, and life skills development, and gain work experience through community partnerships.
Program directors Clarence and Teresa Tilghman said employment helps residents build responsibility but should not become the point of the program. Teresa Tilghman put it plainly: recovery matters more than the work.
David Dikes, who arrived at the center 14 months ago and now serves as a resident staff member, described the early weeks as the hardest part and said the first step is admitting there is a problem and deciding to do something different.
Johnson said the program focuses on the circumstances underlying a person’s substance use rather than the substance alone.
Faith-Based Programs Are One Option Among Several
Faith-based residential programs are a real and often affordable part of the recovery safety net, particularly in areas where publicly funded beds are scarce.
They are also not the right fit for everyone, and they are not clinical treatment. Programs like this one generally do not provide medical detox or medication for opioid use disorder on site.
If you are physically dependent on alcohol or benzodiazepines, withdrawal requires medical supervision before entering any residential program. Ask any program you contact how they handle detox and whether they will coordinate that step.
Johnson noted that finding a location was difficult because communities tend to support recovery in principle and resist it locally. That resistance is one reason affordable beds stay scarce in rural counties.
Free and Low-Cost Rehabs in Mississippi
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