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ABOUT THE HEALING PLACE OF WAKE COUNTY

The Healing Place of Wake County is a non-profit rescue and rehabilitation facility that offers a free, long-term, peer-run, 12-step-based  residential recovery program for homeless adults with alcohol and drug addictions.

The Healing Place men’s facility (left) opened in early 2001. Since then, we have served over 2800 different homeless men age 18 and older. On any given day 154 men are cared for on our 180-bed Goode Street campus.

The Women’s Facility (right) opened in early 2006. As of December 2007, over 900 women have entered the doors to either stay in our emergency overnight shelter, or to be admitted to our non-medical detox center. In that same time period, over 400 women have entered our extended recovery program. The Healing Place Women’s Facility has provided over 37,000 beds of shelter during its first two years of operation.

Our clients are from all walks of life, all races and all stages of recovery. Their stays range from one night to graduation from our program after several months.

Our Mission:

To offer innovative recovery and rehabilitation to homeless alcoholic and chemically dependent men and women through a continuing mutual-help program that kindles their desire to return to a meaningful and productive life.

Our Goals:

• To address the needs of homeless users of alcohol and other drugs in Wake County;

• To attract persons to a program that effectively addresses their addiction and related problems, restoring them to meaningful and self-sufficient lives;

• To provide services to the homeless substance abuser at minimal cost;

• To serve as a model for other communities wishing to replicate the program.

Homelessness & Addiction

In 2005, there were an estimated 1,106 homeless men, women, and children living on the streets each night in Wake County. Many of them are substance abusers.

The facts about addiction are stark:

• Between 60% and 80% of the homeless suffer from alcoholism and other drug addictions;

• Addiction inhibits the ability to work;

• Addiction destroys families;

• Addiction ruins social relationships;

• Addiction creates and sustains homelessness;

• Addiction may begin after one becomes homeless.

In Wake County, homeless men, women and children need shelter as well as medical treatment. Most shelters do not accept inebriated men or women, so a homeless addict often winds up in jail or in a hospital – at great expense to the taxpayer. The Healing Place of Wake County offers a cost-effective, viable alternative, providing residential alcoholism and other drug addiction recovery services through a mutual-help program.

How we work:

Modeled after a nationally recognized rehabilitation facility, our program offers addicted, homeless men the opportunity to become responsible, productive, and self-supporting citizens through a number of programs:

• Emergency Shelter;
• The Sobering-up Center;
• Off-the-Street Program;
• Phase Recovery Program;
• Health Care and Self Care Clinic.

In addition to basic shelter, The Healing Place offers the hope of recovery to those who seek change from the paired problems of addiction and homelessness. Based on a peer-to-peer recovery model, our unique program helps homeless alcoholics and addicts become responsible, productive, and self-supporting citizens. The recovery rate is more than 70%.

Education about addiction, which includes the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, is essential to that success.