Women whose lives are shattered due to drugs, alcohol or abuse learn to build healthy relationships, stability and structure at Passages.
For six years, Passages’ home environment has provided hope and opportunity for recovery so women can reach their full potential. Residents stay for a minimum of six months. They are taught how to make better life choices with coaching and mentoring then resume building and job hunting and how to sustain a positive lifestyle. The program is giving them the tools to go back into the world and stay the path — independent and confident.
Marge Beam, Director of Passages, says, “The addiction starts along time ago — most of them as teenagers because of trying to numb out what has happened to them. And for the ones who haven’t been abused, there’s been life traumas. Alcohol works and drugs work for a while — until they don’t. And they’ve developed decision making processes and new life styles that are survival mechanisms for them, but that don’t really work at mainstream society.” Read more . .