Clients of a sober living facility in Lexington are looking for a new home after the company shuttered its doors this week. Clients and employees were both notified on Monday that Optimal Living Services would be closing this week, and clients were required to vacate the housing units by Wednesday.
Donnie Frye was a peer support specialist with Optimal Living Services. He said this sudden closure is worrying because many of the clients were there for help battling addiction.
“If they don't have these places that can take them in and get them in the right direction and give them the tools to learn how to live again, and you take it away from them, then the only other option, normally, is to go back to what they know, which is actively using,” said Frye.
He said situations like this can cause some serious trust issues for the former clients.
“This right here, is definitely something will affect someone in early recovery, because now they don't know where to go or who they can trust, because here it is, they put trust in Optimal Living and now, they got put out. So that is probably going to affect them with other recovery centers, not knowing if they can trust the next one, because this place did that to them.”
Frye said that as a peer support specialist, he worked with around six people per week, if not more. He is concerned about his clients' well-being and finding a stable place to stay as they continue their recovery.
WEKU has made multiple attempts to reach out to Optimal Living Services leadership and received no response.
