OPENDOOR

OpenDoor Women's Recovery Alliance is a grassroots, boots on the ground, nonprofit organization serving the most vulnerable women in our community, women in recovery from substance use disorder. OpenDoor provides one-year of free services to women as they transition from treatment, court ordered diversion programs, and/or incarceration to a sustainable, drug-free life.

We are committed to getting our community involved with this daunting mission. We have had 80 volunteers over the last year and a half devote a year or more to women who are suffering. The outcomes have been overwhelming.

A group of four to six community volunteers make a year commitment to act as a team of mentors, encouragers, and advocates for each woman while cultivating relationships that last long beyond the year. This team meets weekly to work on goals, do something fun, and sometimes just act as a sounding board for women who don't have other reliable relationships. The goal of the program is the relationship because we know without healthy relationships, maintaining sobriety and a new way of life is impossible.

This transitional relationship fills the void that exists between incarceration, treatment, or a court ordered program to sustainable recovery. The relationships made last long beyond the year commitment and transformation is seen in volunteers and the women we serve.

This program has been around since 2005 and OpenDoor is a licensed user in Columbus, OH. Other organizations such as nonprofits utilize the model to help foster kids as they age out, veterans, people in poverty and more. For more information about our parent company, I have listed their website below.

https://www.theopentable.org/models/