Project Lasting Impact

We empower women to break the cycle of addiction, homelessness, and incarceration. 

This fundraiser is to help us continue to provide our lifesaving yearlong reentry and recovery program serving justice involved women with substance use disorder in Rutherford County and beyond. Like many nonprofits, we are experiencing a very difficult budget year. While this budget gap threatens to close our doors, we are not dejected or defeated. We recently graduated our largest class ever - 16 women- each of whom is a walking testimonial to the beautiful gifts that come from courage, integrity, perseverance, grit, and faith. We are truly inspired by the success stories of our graduates, and we strive to embody these values too, as we forge a new path to financial self sufficiency for our agency. Our program yields fruitful results every day and our spirits are sustained by the the lives we help change.  

A New Service and a New Funding Model

Doors of Hope became Tennessee DMHSAS licensed on November 1 2025, to provide outpatient treatment. We will roll out our inaugural licensed program- an Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program for Women- in January 2026. This program will allow us to serve more women in Rutherford county, including those with family and work responsibilities that prevent them from seeking residential treatment. Our IOP has a sliding scale fee schedule based on income, to help women afford treatment and is reimbursable by most insurance companies. Revenue generated from our licensed outpatient programs will help offset the costs of our Reentry and Recovery program, which is offered at no cost upon admission. 

How We Support Women Leaving incarceration:

• • Safe and supportive housing
  • Basic needs, including food, clothing, healthcare access and coordination
  • Medication management for co-occurring disorders
  • Prompt and ongoing access to healthcare, including dental care and help with costs
  • Trauma informed professional counseling 
  • LADAC II Counseling and assessment
  • Certified Peer Recovery Specialist Support: peer coaches who walk beside women through the 12 Step Recovery Program
  • Recovery Case Management: help with obtaining documents, IDs, benefits, life skills, budgeting, employment support, goal planning
  • Therapeutic Community Support
  • Referrals and warm hand-offs for service needs

Your Donation Saves Lives

Tennessee is among the states hit hardest by the opioid crisis and Rutherford County ranks very high among all counties in drug overdose deaths. The women who come to Doors of Hope Reentry and Recovery Program often see our program as a last shot at changing the trajectory of their lives. Our program works and we have the data to prove it. 

100% of our clients:

• Attend 30 meetings in 30 days
• Are actively engaged in recovery
• Engage in a rigorous stabilization phase with classes 4-5 days a week to learn about addiction, coping skills, trauma, and life skills
• Obtain full time employment by day  90 in the program
• Receive trauma-informed counseling, medication management, LADAC assessments, peer recovery coaching, and recovery case management 
• Build a robust recovery network
• Pay off or make a payoff plan for court costs
• See a primary care physician and a dentist
• Are part of a continuum of care that includes detox, crisis stabilization, and warm handoffs
• Part of a community of interdependent support

None of our clients are: 

• Languishing in jail or prison
• Using the emergency room instead of primary care
• Unhoused
• Hungry
• Without needed medications
• In Active Addiction
• Overdosed