On Friday, New Day Recovery opened its newest and largest facility in Niles. The building has enough space for 200 patients at a time. Its amenities focus on a different kind of patient experience with a game room, gyms, a barber shop, hair salon and more. 

 

Stefanie Ivay is Co-CEO of New Day Recovery with her husband Tom and said it’s all a part of an effort to show the patients how to have fun while they’re sober.

 

“We’ll take them bowling, we’ll take them on outings. We’re going to have vans so they won’t always be just locked up in here so to speak,” Ivay said. 


The Niles location is just one of many facilities New Day Recovery has in Mahoning and Trumbull counties. Since 2016 they’ve been offering detox and in-patient programs which ties in with trying to correct the opioid crisis in the area. 

 

“We’re still in the middle of the opioid crisis, and then we’re adding into that methamphetamine, pressed pills, all kinds of other drugs,” April Caraway, executive director of the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board said. 

 

The new facility in Niles offers long term stays for people who are struggling which is something that's especially needed in Trumbull County. 

 

“Our county has always been around 10 out of 88 counties with overdoses,” Caraway said. “We have more people dying from other substances other than opiates than ever before.”

 

To help treat more people, more facilities need to open which requires more employees. To get the staff, Caraway said they need rates raised for Medicaid.

 

“We’re asking that the state department put a 10% increase on Medicaid,” Caraway said. “And that will help people.”

 

New Day Recovery will officially start welcoming patients to its Niles facility on April 3.