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Cardinal Housing Network describes women’s recovery home, partnerships with reentry and county services
Summary
Cardinal Housing Network founder told commissioners Oct. 1 that a group home and planned family apartments offer trauma-informed, peer-supported transitional housing for women in recovery; partners include Douglas County reentry, Heartland services and Family Promise.
Cardinal Housing Network founder Hannah Bolton told the Douglas County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 1 that her organization is operating a women’s transitional sober-living group home in Lawrence and is developing family apartments, and that the program’s model relies on close partnerships with the county reentry program and local behavioral-health and recovery providers.
Bolton said the group-home policies, intake forms and relapse-prevention plans are documented and that the house at 1046 New Hampshire Street operates with a trauma-informed, peer-centered approach. “Housing is an essential component in recovery,” Bolton said, describing how residential, communal living can help people apply skills learned in treatment to daily life.
Program model and partnerships - Cardinal’s current house provides peer and staff coverage: a staff support coordinator (identified in the presentation as Hope) is on-site Monday–Friday 8 a.m.–5 p.m.; a…
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