Valerie Jiminez remembers staying out all night searching for cocaine. She would do anything, she said, "even sell my body," to get it. She remembers getting into fights, doing drugs while pregnant and neglecting her two daughters.

Kim Williams remembers drinking a fifth of vodka a day, bouncing from shelter to shelter, losing custody of her daughter, and then finding herself pregnant again with no idea of how to stop drinking.

But the program, run by Haymarket House on the Near West Side, depends in part on state funding. Whether the women will be able to complete their stay, and whether others will be able to follow them, depends on what happens in state budget negotiations in their final days in Springfield.