Through outreach, advocacy, and peer connection, Dwelling At the Well ( "DATW" or "The Well") provides direct and referral services to the women we serve.
The Whole Woman
DATW takes a holistic approach when it comes to helping women with alcohol and other substance abuse disorders. We work with women across every area of brokenness and need in their lives (spiritual, emotional, psychological, and social). We want to help women become whole - again.
Counseling Support
DATW provides counseling support to help women gain greater insight into the people, places, situations, and things that trigger their alcohol and substance abuse. Our approach to counseling is not about telling women what to do - we're not in the business of making their choices for them. We see counseling as an opportunity for women to take ownership of their choices and to encourage each other to make new ones. Taking responsibility for their actions is a key step to lasting change. Through our counseling support model, women can engage with, connect to, and collaborate with each other on the road to recovery. It's the first step to taking back control of their lives and their destinies.
Job Readiness & Development
DATW partners with local employment and women-focused agencies to provide access to job readiness, job opportunities, and career coaching. Our partners focus on job searching, interviewing, resume writing, and other employment training skills. Participants in need of job training are referred to partner agencies.
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8 Dimensions of Health & Wellness
DATW offers group WRAP (Wellness, Recovery, Action, Plan) sessions free of charge. We focus on 8 Dimensions of Wellness (1) Social, 2) Emotional, 3) Spiritual, 4) Environmental, 5) Occupational, 6) Intellectual, 7) Financial, and 8) Physical. We believe "wellness" is more than just physical fitness. Wellness is every important area of life harmonized to contribute to a person's entire well-being.
Trauma Recovery
DATW acknowledges the far-reaching impact that trauma has in a person's life. Witnessing or experiencing violence, suffering neglect, surviving loss, experiencing sexual or physical abuse, being separated from kids and family, and pervasive feelings of fear or shame - all of these can contribute to women not getting the help they need. Here, we don't shy away from the impact of trauma - we explore it. And we offer access to a network of support, workshops, and community services to help women understand their choices and coping mechanisms. We take a holistic, spiritual approach to dealing with trauma. Studies show that childhood trauma is the root cause of most of the physical, psychological, sexual, and domestic violence we experience. When women are able to process trauma in a healthy way - they can recover from it and gain better control over their choices and their lives.
Peer Support
DATW believes in the power of peers. We believe in the power of group sessions. Peer support allows women to intimately share and draw upon their personal, lived experiences in order to encourage, inspire, and inform other women in similar situations on the road to recovery. Our model of peer support is two or more women, with some overlapping commonalities or shared experiences, coming together to build mutual accountability and respect. They learn, together, how to change their ways of thinking, seeing, and doing things.
Money Management Support
Most of the women with substance abuse disorders, that we serve, have other co-morbid issues that need to be addressed (mental health conditions, lack of education and/or skills, homelessness, joblessness, etc) and financial literacy, accountability, and responsibility is one of them. Most of the women we serve live at or below the poverty line, so helping them learn to manage their money is important to us. We partner with other local agencies to provide money management, credit counseling for debt management, budgeting, banking, and other financial areas of need.
Parenting Skills
Women with substance abuse disorders who have children are often penalized, marginalized, and ostracized from their kids and their families. We are willing to work with families to make sure that substance abuse does not become the excuse for disconnecting women from their children, families, and communities. We will partner with local agencies to help facilitate meetings and/or visitations as needed. Improving relationships between women with substance abuse disorders and their children and families is a key step to helping women regain their footing in society, in the community, and in their homes.
Dedicated Staff and Team
DATW is staffed by members and volunteers who are dedicated to and have a passion/heart for women who have substance abuse disorders. Many have lived and loved through addictions and know, first hand, what the women at The Well are going through. This is an entire network of people who want nothing better than seeing women set free from this disease. Our team wants to make an eternal impact on the lives of the women we serve. Through our programs and services (WRAP, mentoring, support groups, advocacy, community awareness and engagement, etc) - we know we can. And we will!
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