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Mending Hearts recovery program is a three-tiered
model that incorporates the treatment protocols of a traditional
28-day program, a half-way house and a transitional facility
into one therapeutic community program. This pioneering
model helps ensure that the women who leave Mending Hearts
remain substance-free and become contributing members
of society. The three phases of our program design are:
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Intensive Early Stage Recovery (3-90 days
of sobriety): treats early recovery; offers drug and alcohol
education; focuses on the short-term in order to identify
the underlying causes of the addiction, integrates behavioral
changes and intensive case management; and addresses health
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Half-way House (Months 4 to 9): focuses on living and
life skills such as job readiness,
budgeting, education and in-house chores; instructs on
how to develop a network of support; and offers continuing
life-adjustment education.
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Transitional Therapeutic Community (Months 9 to 12,
and up to 24 months): provides a
living environment with continued, but reduced, supervision;
requires residents to
implement life skills, such as working, saving money and
repairing/building broken
relationships with family and friends; offers continuing
life skills education; provides relapse prevention strategies
and group support.
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| Mending Hearts is located in West Nashville
on a campus of three apartment complexes along Albion
Street. Program participants live in these apartment units
for the program duration, which typically lasts from 6
to 24 months. |
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