THE NEXT DOOR
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Mission Statement
The Next Door, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving women in crisis, equipping them for lives of wholeness and hope. Our mission at The Next Door is simple: to provide the best care with the greatest respect for women in need. We offer several different programs ranging from transition and re-entry services for women who have been incarcerated to aftercare services aimed at helping women reconnect with their families and live lives of wholeness and hope. We offer top-notch facilities in Nashville and Chattanooga.
About This Cause
In the spring of 2002, a small group of women from First Baptist Church Nashville, calling themselves the Wild Group of Praying Women, were interested in the use of a vacant building in downtown Nashville. They began meeting to discuss and pray about ways to use this building to serve the less fortunate. A community survey of over thirty government and private agencies revealed that one of the largest unmet needs in Middle Tennessee was in the area of transitional housing and services for women ex-offenders. Founders designed a residential transitional program to address the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of women coming from incarceration. The nonprofit came to be known as “The Next Door” after organizers met with a local warden. He explained that when a woman had paid her dues to society and was ready for release, she would come to “ROLL UP ONE” – a huge, intimidating door that literally rolled open to allow her to walk out to freedom. All too often, the heartbreaking story then followed the same pattern. Too many women went directly back to old neighborhoods, so called “friends”, and addiction, and then returned to incarceration within months, if not weeks. This is called “recidivism.” The heart of the founders’ work came together in that moment. We would pick women up at “Roll Up One” and offer them “The Next Door” to a new home, real friends, and the opportunity to experience a fresh start. “The Next Door” would offer women HOPE! Staff at The Next Door believes that addiction is a disease that is often accompanied by co-occurring disorders, such as mental illness, and that treatment requires both to be addressed simultaneously with gender-specific therapy and evidence-based practices. The Next Door provides an integrated model to address the co-occurring disorders. A professional team of counselors, case managers, nurse practitioners, masters level social work interns, mentors, and job coaches complete the staff to provide comprehensive coverage to residents’ needs. In 2007, The Next Door expanded its services in Nashville to include permanent housing with supportive services for women and their children. The Freedom Recovery Community, a permanent housing apartment complex near downtown Nashville, provides women and their children with safe, affordable housing and supportive services including recovery support, counseling, workforce development for the women including tutoring and mentoring. In June 2010, the Correctional Release Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, received its first residents. In 2015, the new Nashville location of The Next Door added treatment services, including outpatient programming, a medically-monitored detoxification unit, and individualized residential inpatient treatment services, for uninsured women seeking help to live in recovery from active addiction. The Next Door offers a comprehensive continuum of treatment services developed specifically to help women address issues related to chemical dependency, co-occurring mental illness and trauma. TND is a compassionate, faith-centered community that is equally balanced by the evidence-based programming provided by our professionally trained team. Treatment services at TND are designed to address the whole person and are delivered in a collaborative, engaging manner where clients and staff work together to develop individual client goals for not only treatment but for living a life in recovery. TND’s treatment programs are for women only and our clients are served by a team who fully understands the unique issues of women. Treatment providers help women understand the brain diseases of addiction and mental illness and how to manage their symptoms. Our multidisciplinary team includes: licensed and masters level mental health and addiction counselors, clinical social workers, a board certified psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse practitioners, nurses, creative arts and wellness instructors and peer supports. Each level of treatment offered by The Next Door is licensed by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.