HOPE of East Tennessee, Inc.
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HOPE of East Tennessee, Inc.
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HOPE of East Tennessee, Inc., is a non-profit organization providing recovery residences and outpatient treatment for chemically dependent men and women. Intensive Outpatient Treatment is available for indigent Clients as well as Tenncare coverage. Our residences and outpatient center are centrally located in Oak Ridge, providing easy access to resources. HOPE of East Tennessee, Inc., was chartered in 1976 in the State of Tennessee as a non-profit corporation and is governed by a volunteer board of directors. Since our start, we have treated over 4000 men and women seeking recovery from the disease of addiction. HOPE is licensed by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities and meets all applicable life safety rules. We give priority admission for our residential services to pregnant injecting drug abusers, pregnant substance abusers, and injecting drug users. You may contact HOPE by telephone at (865) 482-4826 or by email at director@hopeofet.org Our HistoryHOPE OF EAST TENNESSEE began operation in 1976 with a men's residence at our current location. From the beginning, our mission has been to provide a safe, homelike, and sober environment for those individuals who want to remain sober and need continued assistance. During the 80's, HOPE expanded the men's residence at 115 Lancaster Road and opened a women's residence, now located at 171 Waddell Circle. We currently have a capacity of 15 beds for men and 11 beds for women. Our men's Halfway House is named Opportunity House, the name given by the founders of HOPE. The addition was dedicated to Bill Sewell, a long time supporter of HOPE and a man dedicated to the principles of Alcoholic's Anonymous.Our women's residence is named Francis Hurley House in honor of her work in starting the residence and her dedication to working with women in recovery. In 1995, HOPE opened residences as transitional living now located on S. Walker Lane. These residences are intended to provide low cost living in a supportive and sober environment for those who need a stepping stone from the more structured environment of the recovery residences into independent living. This complex consists of (3) duplex apartment units that can house up to (14) men and women. The complex is named JACK HARPER HOUSE'S in honor of a long time member of HOPE'S Board of Directors who donated much time and energy to HOPE. Hope also offers outpatient services, educational programs, aftercare, individual counseling and special focus groups such as relapse prevention and dual diagnosis. During HOPE'S existence, we have treated approximately 4000 men and women with the disease of chemical dependency. These individuals have come from all walks of life and different backgrounds. What is the one thing they all had in common with you? Their desire to live a sober and productive life. Our PhilosophyFor many years, the principle of peers helping peers has been established to be one of the most effective models of recovery. At Opportunity House and Francis Hurley House, this principle is practiced by placing responsibility for each person's recovery with the group. You help peers in their recovery as they help you. Decisions regarding admission, privilege levels, discharge, etc. are discussed and made by the residents as a group. At HOPE, we believe that alcohol and drug addiction is a disease. We believe that this disease, if left untreated, will result in spiritual, emotional, and physical decay as well as financial bankruptcy. Eventually, this disease will result in death. It is our belief that individuals choose to abuse alcohol and other drugs for a wide variety of reasons. Whether the reasons have to do with family pressures, poor choice of friends, peer pressure, health reasons, etc., the problems to be faced remain the same for all. The person must first stop using the chemical, then start learning to cope with daily living problems without using the drug or continuing the old behavior. Hope does not provide detoxification services but takes individuals who have successfully completed a detoxification program and assist them in becoming sober and responsible members of their community. We believe that HOPE's role in an individual's recovery is to provide an opportunity to continue recovery after abstinence has been established. After becoming drug and alcohol free, we believe the person must learn more healthy ways of coping and learn to change old patterns of behavior which contributed to staying drunk or high. The changes made must include learning responsibility by following rules and planning or structuring everyday life, learning to trust, learning to identify and express feelings in an acceptable way, and learning to feel good and have fun without the use of alcohol or drugs. We believe that providing a sober environment, group and individual counseling to talk about problems, and the structure and guidance gained from daily contact with staff and other recovering people are necessary ingredients to add to a person's desire to stay sober. The Hope program relies extensively on the 12-Step programs of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Individuals are expected to be responsible for themselves by being gainfully employed and contributing toward the cost of room, board and treatment. In addition, clients are responsible for the recovery community of which they are a part of by attending recovery groups, outpatient programs, as well as the management and enforcement of the norms for the houses they reside in.
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