Articles: Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home
A NEW BEGINNING
Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home, Inc. is a place to begin a new life. We have been in the community since 1971. We provide our residents with an environment that encourages change. We offer a safe, sober, supportive home and surround them with caring individuals who themselves are true testimony to the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle. Most important, our facility is a place where people learn to trust themselves again; where the transition within treatment to sobriety takes place almost effortlessly; where long-term recovery is not just an objective…it's a way of life.
Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home, Inc. is a non-profit, 501 ( c ) 3 organization dedicated to providing safe, supportive transitional, long-term housing for men & women 18 years of age and older who are recovering from alcohol and/or drug addiction. We also provide living arrangements for women and their dependent children. Our residents have an inability to maintain abstinence from mind-altering substances and risk fatality without our program.
Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home provides safe, supportive housing, 24/7 staff support, on-site recovery programming, community support services, and contributory recovery focused services for both of our Men's & Women's programming. Within those two programs, we serve chemically dependent and intravenous drug abusing men, chemically dependent pregnant women and/or women with children, and intravenous drug abusing women. We offer on-site daily 12-step recovery meetings, with an average regular weekly attendance of 297 community folks.
Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home residents are encouraged to develop good health and work habits and live cooperatively with one another. The daily structure of the home guides the social, emotional and spiritual development of our residents. Referrals are accepted from any agency or organization serving chemically dependent people. Self-referrals are accepted provided no intoxication has occurred in the previous 72 hours. Our residents are individuals that struggle with sobriety and need further structure to assist them with their efforts of sustained recovery from addiction.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home has the largest transitional living facility with the State of West Virginia. Our facility assists residents on building the capacity to access wrap-around community resources and skill building for living in a sober community, with enhancements in all aspects of parenting and support systems.
We have a Family Reunification Process, which includes collaborative efforts with DHHR Bureau for Children and Families that assist residents with learning to care properly for and maintain or obtain custody of their dependent children. A return to work is a focus, with initiatives in place for the resident to obtain job skills and maintain work. Project outcomes are to offer residents a chance to reach their full potential and maintain abstinence. An estimated 95+ people yearly benefit from this program.
We have program "check in" points, throughout the course of our program, as well as staff aftercare resident contact in various timelines, after program completion. Achievement is considered attained as the resident grows within his spiritual well being and becomes a productive member of his life, and the community which helped to save his life. Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home, Inc. provides outcome information quarterly and census information bi-weekly to the Division on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
Our sober living program is 6-months, with additional time granted, as indicated. Our programming is developed to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual components of our clients' sobriety. It is developed locally with input and learning's from other Executive Directors and the State Division of Alcohol & Drug Abuse.
HOPE FOUND HERE
Our clients enter the facility emotionally bankrupt and unable to cope with life on life's terms, sober. There is more to quitting drinking & using, than just maintaining abstinence. The elimination of using is but a beginning of the necessary lifestyle changes which ensure abstinence.
Through expanding their thinking and themselves, a newly sober person discovers a belief which resides deep within, and in doing so, cultivates a healthy sense of self-approval, self-acceptance, forgiveness, and begins to enjoy who they were placed on this earth to be. Our program allows a newly sober person to regain necessary lifestyle skills and develop emotional sobriety.
The daily structure of MOVFH, guides the social, emotional and spiritual development of its residents. Our program is an endeavor for a person to become readjusted to responsibilities in life, work and social relationships, along with a chance to regain dignity and self-respect.
Our residents are individuals that struggle with sobriety and need further structure to assist them with their efforts of sustained recovery from addiction. Very often within early sobriety, this person is emotionally, physically & spiritually bankrupt. An addicted person has used their alcohol/drug of choice in an attempt to fulfill these very basic human needs.
As a person releases the grip of addiction within their lives, our program is designed to assist people in reaching an inner balance within the physical, emotional and spiritual focus areas of sobriety. Residents regain employment, develop an external sober peer support system, and identify the negative impact that drugs/alcohol have placed on their life, health & relationships.
Beaten by the despair of alcoholism and addiction, a person becomes an outcast to family, friends and community. Upon discharge from our program, our client has learned that trust, mutuality and reciprocity are important within human interactions. They have become fiscally responsible, and an active participant in their community, work and family. The impact this has on a person individually, within their family, and within their re-entry into community life, is to be revered.
The MOVFH Team