Support for recovery is often withheld because addiction is sometimes seen as a criminal issue. It is not. The demand for successful substance recovery models is high, and addiction needs to be met with care from the communities who need care most.
GRACE accomplishes this through our strategic partnership with Oxford House™, which is built on three prevailing principles: responsibility, recovery and replicability. These principles form a hopeful promise to residents: life can be better. Learn more about the recovery model below.
Each Oxford House resident adheres to a responsibility of sobriety, not just for themselves, but for the health of their community and Oxford family. Through affordable cost-share housing and governance, residents are equipped to achieve long-term sobriety by living in democratically run, self-supporting and substance-free homes.
PURPOSE
To provide safe, sober living –
giving recovering addicts
a chance to evolve.
MISSION
To provide housing and assist recovering addicts in transition to healthy living by improving the quality and availability of Oxford Houses™ in Missouri.
CORE VALUES
Hope,
Compassion
and GRACE.
GRACE & Oxford House Partnership
GRACE is a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to increase funding and scale the Oxford House model of recovery. Safe and stable environments significantly lower instances of relapse. Our goals include:
Keeping residents in Oxford Houses for a minimum of 18 months.
The average stay is just over 13 months, which is a great start. Extending to 18 months results in an 87% chance of them being clean and sober 5 years later.
Funding salaries of outreach workers.
This role is critical to the model, as all outreach workers are successful Oxford House alumni. They provide accountability, collaboration, peer mentoring, recovery coaching and assistance restoring families who have lost custody of children and/or have broken relationships due to addiction.
Partnering with real estate investors.
Private investors allow us to purchase and open new Oxford House homes across Missouri, expanding our reach in new communities.
Improving existing Oxford House projects.
We currently have 50+ homes across the state of Missouri that will continue to provide safe, stable recovery support.
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