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Popularity: 6% [?]

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.

Popularity: 43% [?]

As you may know, our women’s program, Dove’s Nest, has only 12 program and 10 ‘continuing care’ beds.  The waiting list for admission is usually about 6 months.  Last year, our board of directors voted to expand the facility from a total of 22 beds to 90 beds.  Visit our new Dove’s Nest Capital Campaign page to learn more and to find out how you can get involved in this incredible opportunity.

Popularity: 83% [?]

In 2008, Dove’s Nest re-opened their Continuing Care Division.  This 10 bed facility located in the Uptown area provides a means for Dove’s Nest graduates to step back into society.   As with Rebound’s halfway house, the women need to be employed or actively seeking employment in order to qualify.  After the 120 days of Dove’s Nest intensive recovery program, the Continuing Care Division provides an additional eight months of on-going treatment in a safe environment.

Dove’s Nest Program Continuing Care Division offers:

• Employment readiness preparation
• Employment support
• Continued education in the application of Grace, Interpersonal Boundaries, Money and Time Management
• Residence are required to agree to financial management instructions
• Skill building in the areas of computer literacy
• Weekly “Process/Problem Solving” group
• Continued sober support development
• Spiritual growth

Client’s may earn gradual community and society integration involvement. Family members continue with bi-weekly multi-family group meetings and support group involvement.

Popularity: 30% [?]

Facts necessary for prospective clients and referral sources about the CRM Dove’s Nest Program. The women’s specific recovery program is a four to twelve month program that follows a diagnostic period that last approximately two-weeks.

Client Eligibility:

Prospective clients must call the Admission’s Coordinator personally & follow directions given. We currently work from a waiting list. 704-332-3999 ext. 13 (Leave your name and a number where you can be reached within 24 to 48-hours.)

A client must:

• Be 18 years or older
  • Be motivated for making major life changes and willing to following directions
  • Have a original valid photo identification AND social security card upon admission.
  • No legal or other outside issues that will create disruption of the client’s program
  • Submit to a full drug screen with includes alcohol upon admission
  • Be medically & psychiatrically stable
    • Able to sit for an hour at time
    • Climb stairs
    • Not on any medications that contain benzodiazepines, barbiturates, alcohol, narcotics or anti-psychotic medications.
    • If pregnant, not over 12 weeks gestation WITH a current obstetrician approval for the program AND a viable aftercare or supportive residence in place post-discharge
  • Be able to read on a 7 th grade level
  • Speak, hear, read & write English
  • Since are not hospital based, we cannot admit women that have chronic medical conditions requiring frequent medical appointments, eating disorders and certain types of personality and psychiatric disorders (check with the admission’s coordinator.)
    • Have at least a 30-day supply of medications
• Family members that wish to gain visitation privileges must follow the directions of the Family Counselor and become active in the program which may include involvement in our weekly Family Program AND/OR mandatory Ala-non meeting attendance

Following a two-week diagnostic period a client may be admitted into:

• During the Diagnostic Phase clients experience:
  • Assessments and Care plan completion
  • Those without insurance obtain a medical sliding scale card
  • Screening at the local health department
  • Mental Health evaluation
  • Learn the basic program schedule environment

Phase One – 120-day structured program, clients will experience weekly individual counseling, group therapy, education classes and various activities, living skills training, biblical application for emotional wounds and sober support group development
Phase Two – our Continuing Care Division (CCD) is approximately 240-days in length and designed for women that:

• do not have supportive and safe environments to return to
• have chronic relapse traits
• have previously completed this program and are eligible for readmission

Popularity: 36% [?]

I had been in treatment for alcohol abuse before, but I didn’t really change.  Then, my husband lost his job and we agreed that wherever he got work we would go.  We moved, but I was miserable.  I isolated myself.  I didn’t want to meet new people.  As soon as he would leave for work at 5am, I would go down to the nearest convenience store and buy alcohol.  I would be drunk by 6am.  I hid it for awhile because I would sober up by the time he came home.

It all ended when I got drunk and had an accident. I hit two gas pumps at a service station. I only know what happened because I read it in the police report – I don’t remember anything.  I was arrested and put in a jail cell where I spent all night crying.  Some time during the night, I heard a guard say, “Nobody can hear your cries now.” I know now that God heard me.

When I came to Dove’s Nest, I thought I hated everybody and everything.  But it was really me I didn’t like.  The staff was tough on me, but they did it for my own good.  My counselor helped me deal with things from my past that I never really dealt with before.  She also taught me how to look in the mirror and not run from what I saw.  I learned how to look at myself and say, “Yes, I am God’s child” and “Yes I am good.”  I had made some bad mistakes, but I didn’t want to run away from my life anymore.

I stayed at Dove’s Nest for seven months. I was safe there.  I felt that I had self-esteem for the first time.  I felt confident.  I call Dove’s Nest “the healing place.”

Everyday, I use the skills they taught me at Dove’s Nest and I am now working on my second year of sobriety.  I am now a part-time facility technician at Dove’s Nest – Continuing Care Division.  I believe God has made a message out of the mess my life had become.  I want to give back what was so freely given to me.

Thank you for making Dove’s Nest a reality.  Everything that I didn’t think was possible has become true because of Dove’s Nest and you.

Popularity: 18% [?]

Starting in 1992, Dove’s Nest continues to work miracles as shown by its 72% client completion rate for its 120 day program compared to the national average of 18%. Many women, however, are being left on the outside as the facility can only support 12 women at any given time.

Currently, Dove’s Nest has a 90-day waiting list, and the list would be much longer except for the fact that many detox centers avoid referring clients because they know that the wait would be too long.

Recognizing the need for additional space, the Charlotte Rescue Mission is engaging in its first Capital Campaign to build a new facility to support more women in crisis. The Charlotte Rescue Mission (CRM) has purchased 11 acres on West Boulevard for construction of a new Dove’s Nest building which will increase treatment bed capacity from 12 to 90. This comprehensive new facility will feature the region’s first three-phased treatment approach providing:

• 10 Pre-Program beds ( currently: 0 )
• 50 Primary Care beds ( currently: 12 )
• 30 Continuing Care Division beds ( currently: 0 )

Another major improvement will be the addition of the capacity for women with children. We will have bunk beds and four people per room. A woman and up to three children will be able to stay in a single room.

The Capital Campaign kicked off in 2008 with the goal to break ground in Fall 2010. Our financial goal is to raise $10 million, which will provide the building plus three years of operating costs.

Finally, the Charlotte Rescue Mission is collaborating with United Family Services (UFS) on our 11 acre West Boulevard site. CRM will sell 5 acres for UFS to build an expanded Domestic Violence facility for women. It is likely that this West Boulevard campus will house two agencies dealing with two of the main issues facing homeless or at risk women: addiction and domestic violence.

Popularity: 18% [?]

You have several opportunities to get involved in the Dove’s Nest Capital Campaign:

1. Attend a Dove’s Nest Lunch and Learn. Each Thursday Lunch and Learns are held from 12:00 – 1:15 at the current Dove’s Nest location. These Lunch and Learns provide details about the program and allow you to see “First-Hand” the miracles that are occurring at the center. To sign up for a Lunch and Learn please contact Lyn Breda – lyn.breda@charlotterescuemission.org – 704.334.4635 ext 213
2. Make a Pledge. Download the following Pledge Form and email the form to eju@charlotterescuemission.org, fax the form to 704-333-7285, or mail the form to the address below.
3. Donate Online. If you feel led to donate right now; you can do so online. Please make sure you select the Gift Type option – Dove’s Nest Capital Campaign. Charlotte Rescue Mission, is a 501(c)(3) organization, and all donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Attn: EJ Underwood
Charlotte Rescue Mission
PO Box 33000
Charlotte, NC 28233

Download the Pledge Form

Popularity: 17% [?]

I’m Tara and I’m an alcoholic and an 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 inside. I had lost everything: kids, family, friends, marriage, home, cars, etc. You name it and I lost it due to my severe drug addiction.

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 an 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 its 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!!!

Popularity: 18% [?]