GRACEWAY RECOVERY RESIDENCE INC
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Mission Statement
GraceWay Recovery Residence is a non-profit recovery community dedicated to providing women with the environment, tools, and employment needed to achieve and maintain long-term sobriety.
About This Cause
Abstinence-based recovery focuses on complete abstinence from all mind and mood altering drugs, thereby breaking the cycle of dependency and addiction. In order to achieve freedom from addiction, withdrawal of all mood and mind altering substances is necessary. The 12-Steps teaches how to cope with everyday ups and downs by living free of mind-altering substances and incorporating a daily program of action. Since 2003, GraceWay has provided a spiritual solution to the disease of addiction by adhering to a true 12-Step program. We’ve worked with countless women who’ve tried to find sobriety by taking other pathways, only to end up utterly defeated time and time again. At GraceWay, our team is dedicated to helping women achieve lifelong, sustainable, and complete recovery. Our program was created out of a deep passion to provide authentic, abstinent-based long-term recovery support services. We understand that recovery is a process, and it is our goal to provide each woman with a safe recovery community while also equipping her with the tools needed to live a rewarding life in recovery. Addiction is a neurobiological disease that affects the mind, body, and spirit. It is progressive and if left untreated, can be fatal. But there is hope. Our program is deeply rooted in the 12-Steps, which have consistently proven to be a solid foundation for lasting recovery. Our residents do more than simply learn about the 12-Step philosophy. They have a personal and authentic experience with the Steps themselves because they learn how to live by the principles that the steps provide. Our program is set apart from other treatment providers because we place a passionate emphasis on the 12-Step practice. The 12-Steps are meant to be practiced, lived, and studied daily, and not simply just read. For almost 20 years, GraceWay has remained true to this methodology because evidence proves that engagement in the 12-Step spiritual program of action leads to long-term sobriety. We know that recovery is a process, full of ups and downs, and at GraceWay it is our goal to help you learn how to live sober one day at a time. We expect you to be willing to do things differently and works towards healthy change. Our team will provide the support and accountability necessary to help you reach your goals. Residents are immersed in an intensive 90 day recovery program at GraceWay’s campus and Victorian style house that offers a homelike environment in a safe and comfortable atmosphere. A structured daily schedule is provided that includes morning chores, groups, exercise, meditation, individual counseling, and free time. Residents receive four groups daily and include topics on triggers, fears, the disease of addiction, the 12-Steps, process groups, self-sabotage, goals, relapse prevention, and more. This 90 day program is the foundation to a life free of addiction. Once a resident gets closer to the 90 day mark, they have the opportunity to transition into one of our fully furnished apartments for sober living at The Way. The Way Sober Living Apartments is committed to providing a safe and structured living environment, while also incorporating recovery support services to encourage long-term sobriety. Residents who wish to transition into sober living upon completion of the GraceWay program must first be accepted into that program. Acceptance is given by the community at the sober living, as well as by a Recovery Board. Residents can remain in sober living for a period of 90 days on a month to month basis. The Way Sober Living Apartments are located right next door to GraceWay Recovery Residence and continue to provide the upmost support, structure, and accountability. The Way works as the bridge between intensive recovery support and fully independent living. In 2008, The Bread House & Granary was opened by GraceWay’s founder, Debbie Mazur, to eliminate a massive hurdle faced by our residents, employment. We wanted a safe environment for the women of GraceWay to step into the workforce when that time came in the program. In May of 2016, The Bread House moved into a larger space right down the street from GraceWay, and with this expansion came new opportunities for our job training program , including a kitchen, lunch service, juice bar, specialty coffee bar, wholesale baking, bakery retail store, and event space. This venture has enabled our residents to learn job readiness and training skills, while also providing them with an opportunity to have purpose again and become self-sufficient and financially independent. The Bread House provides all-natural, hand baked goods, and fresh, healthy, and locally sourced meals that everyone can feel good about eating and even better about supporting since a part of their profits go to GraceWay to help keep our program fees affordable. Every Bread House purchase helps enable countless women to live the empowered lives they desire and deserve through the GraceWay program. It is truly “Nutrition with a Mission”! Addiction is a family disease, and experience shows us that it is essential that families actively participate in the recovery process along with their addicted loved one. At GraceWay, we provide long-term recovery support services for our residents, while simultaneously providing education, support, and assistance to their families to aid in their own recovery. The most common myth about addiction is that it only affects the addicted individual. The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence describes addiction as “a family disease that stresses the family to the breaking point, impacts the stability of the home, the family’s unity, mental health, physical healthy, finances, and overall family dynamics.” The entire family system is affected by addiction, which is why the entire family must take an active role in the recovery process. At GraceWay, we view recovery as a two-fold process; individual recovery and family recovery. One of, if not the most, painful aspect of addiction is that families must bear witness as their addicted loved one’s life fall apart as the disease progresses. This manifests as the loss of jobs, deteriorating relationships, financial struggles, arrests, and declining physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. This unmanageablity bleeds into the family system, and affects all lives touched by the addiction. Addiction consumes the addict, and in turn, their loved ones become consumed with their own unhealthy behaviors which revolve around the addict. This unhealthy enmeshment becomes a pattern the families get trapped in, and manifests in numerous ways, such as, obsession with the addict, enabling (care taking), limited or non-existent healthy boundaries, control, guilt, poor self-care, and wishful thinking. Families do their absolute best to help their loved one and if love alone could beat this disease then families would not need the help of professionals. Unfortunately, this disease uses a families love against them in the most insidious of ways. That is why is is vital that families take an active role in the recovery process to educate themselves, gain support, and unlearn unhealthy behavior patterns. We have learned from 19 years of helping families that those who take an active role in their own recovery, positively impacts their loved one in our program. We waste no time to get families started and they begin to take an active role in the recovery process during intake. Families are given a family packet and family workbook to take back home with them with clear instructions on how to begin their own recovery. We understand that families carry around their own pain and equal amounts of struggle, and we also understand that if a family is to grow and survive, it is critical that family members do their own recovery work as well. Family Services Offered: Individual Support: Before we have any contact with family members and proceed with family services, the resident in our care must first give us permission to contact them by signing a release of information. From that point, our family counselor will meet with the family to assess their needs for ongoing support. Within the first 2 weeks, families are encouraged to complete the family questionnaire, begin working in the family workbook, and start attending Al-Anon meetings in their area. Family Support Sessions: Within the first 30 days, and after we have received the completed family packet, our counselor will call to schedule the first zoom or in person session. These sessions are to provide support, counseling, and education to family members. Family Workshop: Our intensive two-day family workshops are offered every 8 weeks and loved ones are encouraged to attend. When the time is deemed appropriate, approved family members will be sent an invitation to the workshop. In preparation for this day, families are required to have attended at least 6 Al-Anon meetings and are actively working with our family counselor.