Women in Recovery: Substance Abuse Programs
Program
Overview | Program Services | Program Director
PROGRAM
OVERVIEW
The Women in Recovery Program's mission is to provide a safe, confidential and supportive living environment for women in the process of recovering from the disease of addiction. The program provides this environment to women who are participating in a local substance day treatment program and maintaining a consistent abstinence from all drugs and alcohol.
The goal of the program is to assist the women in forming a life of sobriety while delevoping the skills needed to maintain an autonomous and positive lifestyle. During their three to nine month stay, recovering women will become independent of those systems and situations that brought her to our program in the first place, and realize her own self worth.
- Objectives:
- Decrease the number of women who leave substance abuse treatment because of lack of safe housing.
- Enhance the availability of community support.
- Support without enabling.
- Increase the life skills and independence of women in recovery.
- Decrease the incidence of drug and alcohol use in women.
- Qualifications for entrance into the Women in Recovery program:
- A need for a clean, safe living environment for herself and her children.
- Regular attendance at a local substance abuse day treatment program.
- A desire to build a new life without drugs and alcohol.
- Willingness to participate in a community living environment.
- Abstinence.
Women in Recovery is a program of the YWCA of SHR in conjunction with Virginia Beach and Norfolk Community Services Board (CSB). Women admitted to the program must be homeless and enter the shelter as a result of domestic violence or be referred by CSB or another shelter.
- Housing and food for recovering women and their children
- Transportation to 12 Step meetings
- General information and community referrals
- Support groups
- Life skills education
CONTACT
PERSON
For more information, call Linda Douglas at 625-5570.
The YWCA of SHR site was jointly developed by Samantha Boucek, Kimberlee Sellers, and Cynthia Forrester.
