a home, hope and healing…

Mission – To provide a safe, supportive environment, empowering women to live a life of faith, free from chemical dependency. 

Philosophy – Barbara’s House is a Transitional House that provides a safe, healthy, family-like, sober living environment that supports individuals in recovery. Transitional housing benefits individuals in recovery by creating a safe environment where change can occur. It reinforces a substance-free lifestyle,  directly connecting to other peers in recovery, mutual support groups, and recovery support services, in the community. 

Guiding Principles – Respect for each person’s dignity and worth.  Recovery is trauma-informed. Recovery incorporates housing, employment, and social connections. 

Peer Social Model – Peer Support is integral to recovery from addiction. The social model approach includes using mutual support groups, involving residents in decision making and house governance, using personal recovery experience to help others, and a plan for sober living. The physical environment, house meetings, peer support participation by all house  members, and policies are designed to foster the social model approach to recovery.