Statements

Mission

We are a client centered, recovery community building healthy relationships in an alcohol and drug free environment. We focus on honesty, accountability, spirituality, productivity and integrity.

Background

Recovery Community, Inc. was founded in October of 2007. We started with one male house in East Nashville and a mission to teach our residents how to live productive lives alcohol and drug free. What we found was a need for belonging. The people we serve come to us broken and ashamed. They need far more than a place to lay their heads. We provide enough structure to teach life skills and responsibility while providing freedom of choice for many different paths of recovery. We meet our clients where they are and guide them through the early stages of change. We reconnect them with the community while providing them a family of others in recovery who are on the same journey. Our 'pay it forward' approach allows residents who have been here for a while reach out to the new person and give them hope. We have now grown to four male houses, five female houses and a male facility in Sumner County providing ninety safe and sober living beds. We also opened our first Recovery Apartment complex with 16 individual units as a next step for our graduates. Our houses and apartments are full and we have a waiting list of people looking for a new way to live. Many of our clients come to us with only the clothes on their backs. We provide clothing, food, toiletries, bus passes and identification just to get them started. We then assess their needs for things like Intensive Outpatient Treatment, GED, Job Readiness, Mental Heath Services, Medical and Dental Services, Anger Management and Parenting Classes and make the appropriate referrals to our partner agencies.
At Recovery Community we believe in treating the whole person and utilizing the time they are with us to build a foundation for a brighter future and a productive life. We focus on a client's strengths and positives to build self esteem and courage to tackle the problem areas they must deal with in order to recover. By empowering people to change, we are not only rebuilding lives, we are rebuilding our communities.

Impact

Recovery Community is saving lives in Tennessee! We are a family style recovery housing program serving men and women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. Last year alone we served over 250 clients looking for a new way to live. We believe in treating people with dignity and respect and loving them until they can learn to love themselves. We reunite parents with children, create healthy families, produce hard working, taxpaying citizens and keep re-offenders off the streets by teaching them how to live productively without the use of drugs. We achieve these goals by offering affordable, safe housing partnered with Intensive Outpatient Treatment as an alternative to expensive and less accessible Inpatient Treatment. We also offer Recovery Skills Training, Relapse Prevention Groups, Individual Counseling, and Case Management. The end result is we make our community a safer place. During the past year we added a Women's house in Springfield and a 22 bed facility for men in Gallatin. Our neighbors to the north in sister Robertson and Sumner Counties are in dire need of housing and recovery support services and we are striving to meet that need. We have expanded our services in Robertson County to include a Women's and Men's Program Pod in the Robertson County Jail. We have already seen the lives of many people transformed as they learn the skills necessary to maintain a drug and alcohol free lifestyle. One such case is a 57 year-old man we will call James. James came to Recovery Community on a referral from his parole officer after failing a drug screen. He had spent the majority of his adult life in prison and was placed on parole for the rest of his natural life upon release. It was obvious to the staff that James had lived a hard life and probably suffered from some cognitive limitations. James felt that society had given up on him but at Recovery Community we believe that no human being is disposable and we began the process of loving James back to life. Although he was a bit leery initially, James was soon engaged and involved in the treatment process. He attended every session, passed his drug screens, and began getting involved in his recovery outside of the treatment setting. During his time in treatment, James' brother, with whom he was very close, passed away. Emotional events such as this can be very dangerous to a person in early recovery and often lead to relapse, but James stayed clean. He opened up to the group about the sorrow and pain he was going through and processed these emotions in a healthy, productive manner instead of returning to drugs or alcohol. He truly has found a new way to live. Recovery has given him the opportunity to take care of his elderly parents and he currently attends our aftercare on a regular basis. This is just one of many stories of hope and redemption. At Recovery Community, we believe that love and accountability can change lives and we are those Agents of Change. We see it manifested in lives of our clients every day. We really are 'loving people back to life!'

Needs

Recovery Community needs:
1. Financial Support for additional staff members.
2. Funds to cover the cost of treatment for indigent clients.
3. Funds for new resident identification, bus passes, prescriptions.
4. Small new or used appliances(vacuums, microwaves, coffee makers, dorm sized refrigerators).
5. New comforters, sheets and pillows (twin).
6. New or used 12-step books (AA big books or 12 x 12, NA basic text, How & Why or Step Working Guides).
7. Kroger/ Walmart gift cards ($20 denomination).
8. Winter coats in colder months.

CEO Statement

I came to Nashville in December of 2003 after 3 months in jail and 25 days in rehab. I checked into a halfway house with only a suitcase of clothes and $10 in my pocket. I was searching for recovery and was ready to start a new life. What I found instead was a rat infested, filthy place where people were still using drugs. I remember praying every night for God to protect me and keep me clean. I had made some mistakes, but knew that I was not a bad person. I dreamed that one day I would open a place where people could recover in a safe and healthy environment, a clean place that lifted people up and gave them a chance to start over. I only stayed in that house for a few weeks and moved on to a better place. I ended up working for other housing organizations for the next several years, then an opportunity arose for me to start Recovery Community. My dream had become a reality. Not a day goes by that I don't reflect on what it feels like to be in a new town searching for something more, searching for direction and guidance. Our Client Centered approach here is not just what we think people need, but what we know by experience. We offer a fresh start with the tools of recovery that it takes to make it. Our houses are clean and safe and I always say I would never put someone in a house that I wouldn't live in. Our staff is continuously trained on the latest updates in treatment practices and addiction recovery. We pride ourselves in offering services that treat each person as an individual while offering peer to peer support to set higher goals and allow every resident to reach their full potential. My name is Lyn Noland, and I am the Executive Director of Recovery Community, Inc.

Service Categories
Primary Category:	Housing, Shelter  - Temporary Housing
Secondary Category:	Mental Health & Crisis Intervention  - Substance Abuse Treatment
Tertiary Category:	Mental Health & Crisis Intervention  - Substance Abuse Dependency, Prevention & Treatment

Areas Served

Recovery Community is located in the heart of Madison. Being on the north end of Davidson County, we have branched out to also serve Robertson and Sumner County residents.

TN - Davidson

TN - Sumner

TN - Robertson