CCO's Recovery Empowerment Support Services Team Program is extending its recovery support services to operating a recovery residence (sober-living) home for women and women with young children (ages 0-12).
Durango does not have a certified recovery residence for women, or for women with children.
This is the reason we are searching for a home to purchase with 4-beds, 3-4 full bathrooms.
We need your help with our fundraiser!
Since March 2022, we provide peer-based recovery support services to our unhoused peers who suffer with substance misuse (substance use disorders) of alcohol and/or drugs, opioids and mixed substances.
A huge gap in service presents a need for women with children who are experiencing homelessness! We believe they should be housed in a home where drugs and alcohol are not allowed. There are women living in an apartment that do not have access to a recovery support program. Those women--who may or may not have children living with them, also need a home free of drugs and alcohol!
They would be monitored closely and our Recovery Empowerment Support Services Team would provide peer support. Peer Support Professionals are trained with a minimum of 60-hours education through the Connecticut Center for Recovery Coach (CCAR) training. We have access to Colorado certified trainers. A candidate for training has lived experience with substance use disorder and with co-occurring mental health issues.
Instead of therapy, we provide a wide-range of empowering, motivating and encouraging self-determination within our support & services. Education about addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders offers our peers to be aware of their strengths and their capital. Awareness helps individuals to be in the moment--rather than being out-of-focus in the external forces that comes through the people we know, or within the environment we spend most of our time, and in those much-needed basics (food, warmth and shelter).
If you're interested in helping us acquire a home, please contact Donna Mae Baukat, CPFS Executive Director & Founder Ph. 970-236-2313 extension 2 E-Mail: execdirector@ccohome.org