Dove’s Nest, Charlotte Rescue Mission’s women’s recovery program, opened its doors in 1992. The 12-bed residential home in the heart of historic Dilworth, provides a structured, yet loving and stable living environment, with a dedicated staff aimed at helping women understand and deal with the core issues of addiction as a disease.
The program provides a loving, highly-structured Christian environment to help women understand and deal with the core issues of their alcohol and/or drug addiction. The intense 120-day program focuses on spiritual, physical, social and psychological recovery. Within each of these areas, issues of shame, isolation, all types of abuse, codependency and lack of boundaries and structure are addressed. After the 120 day intensive program clients may opt for an eight month extension in our continuing care division.
Dove’s Nest offers more than a clean bed, clothing and nourishing food. Women learn how to live a life of sobriety and have a daily personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
The program is women-specific, with a staff dealing with all women’s issues including mental, emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Our clients come to Dove’s Nest to rest, mend, heal and gain a new direction in their lives.
Our dedicated staff is made up of certified substance abuse counselors, licensed clinical addiction specialists, ordained pastors with Associate’s, Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees. Their goal is to teach the women coping skills and tools needed to live and maintain a life of sobriety. The program focuses on all aspects of addiction including shame, isolation, abuse, codependency and lack of boundaries and structure.
Hi, I’m Tara and I’m an alcoholic and a addict. I have been clean and sober for two years thanks to Dove’s Nest. I entered this program totally broken and dead on the indside. I had lost everything; kids, family, friends, marriage, home, cars, etc. You name it and I lost it due to my severe drug addicton. I entered the doors of “The Nest” on November 9, 2007; I was completely dead inside, and there, I found not only a warm meal and a roof over my head but a sense of safety that I hadn’t known in a long time. There were wonderful counselors there that gave me hope and showed me how to live a new way of life, clean and sober. I found the Tara that God had intended me to be all along. I have since gotten my children back and am a great mother. I have a awesome family that I am engaged in. I am going back to school and making good grades to work with other alcholics and addicts. I attend AA meetings several times weekly and am very active in my sobriety. I NEVER could have imagined that my life would be the way it is today; I NEVER thought I could get sober and remain sober. I am SO truely grateful to Dove’s Nest and ALL of it’s staff that was a crucial part of the beginning of my new life. Thank you Dove’s Nest; you will ALWAYS be in my thoughts and prayers…I love you for all you have done for me and all the women’s lives you have changed!!!
Tara,
Thank you so much for sharing your story! It is so encouraging to hear these. Would you mind if we posted your story on our main page?