The Basics
Founded in 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia, Making A Way Housing, a nonprofit organization, provides sober living for financially challenged clients in early recovery, as well as those with co-occurring disorders. Their mission is to help homeless clients get a second chance at a productive life. Besides transitional housing, they provide an emergency shelter as well as a permanent supportive housing program.
Accommodations and Amenities
The Damascus Inn is their emergency shelter program, and houses 25 men and women. Clients must be clean and sober for 72 hours prior to admittance. Individuals have access to a food pantry. Gilead’s Place, the transitional housing facility, resembles a motel. The facility is comprised of yellow rectangular buildings with black-pitched gable roofs, and includes approximately 13 two-bedroom apartments, accommodating 72 clients. Gilead’s Place includes a spacious parking lot, and is covered with large trees, that provide ample shade.
Men and women are lodged in gender-specific units. The furnished apartments include a bathroom and kitchen. While clients are responsible for obtaining their own food, unemployed residents are provided with immediate resources. Within three days of arrival, they must apply for food stamps, and report to the local food bank to pick up food. Those that fail to do risk immediate discharge. Residents are responsible for their own meal preparation. Amenities include community rooms, a laundry facility, pest control services, utilities and cable TV.
Clients are responsible for their own linens and basic household items, including paper supplies and cleaning products. Staff lives on the premises. Gilead’s Place is in close proximity to 12-step meetings, local businesses, and public transportation. Smoking is permitted outside only.
Rules and Regulations
Potential clients must have undergone detox. Length of stay is between six and 12 months. Upon arrival, residents must obtain a sponsor, who has a minimum of five years of sobriety. The sponsor must be approved by staff and have worked all of the steps. Requirements including working steps with sponsor, attending between five and seven weekly 12-step meetings, on and off the premises and being at the 6 pm Friday night house meeting. On a weekly basis, residents enrolled in an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) must attend five 12-step meetings, and clients enrolled in aftercare must attend seven meetings. Group therapy and house meetings fulfill the weekly meeting obligations. Attendance slips must be signed by the meeting’s secretary and given to staff during the house meeting.
Residents are encouraged to find employment or enroll in school. Random drug and alcohol screening is conducted. At Making A Way Housing, residents who relapse are dismissed from the premises to ensure the safety of the entire household.
Extras
Daniel’s Place is the permanent housing complex, and lodges clients who have left Gilead’s Place, as well as others who have completed primary care at a residential treatment facility.
At Making A Way Housing, there are several 12-step meetings offered on-site including a co-ed NA meeting from 2 to 3:30 pm Mondays through Fridays, a women’s NA Monday night meeting from 7 pm to 8:30 pm, a Big Book study from 8 pm to 9:30 pm Thursdays and a men’s Saturday NA meeting from 10 am to 11 am.
Besides housing, other services include case management, peer support groups, addictions counseling, health services, educational and employment assistance.
In Summary
Making A Way Housing offers financially challenged clients in early recovery a wonderful opportunity to build a foundation in a 12-step based program, as well as a chance to create a new and healthy life. This is an excellent choice for men and women seeking a safe and supportive environment.
Making A Way Housing
377 Westchester Blvd
Atlanta, GA 30314
Making A Way Housing Cost: $500 (30 days, not including a $125 nonrefundable deposit). Reach Making A Way Housing by phone at (404) 799-9652 or by email at info@makingawayhousing.org. Find Making A Way Housing at Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
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