Amethyst Place

Supportive Housing - Our campus provides 37 fully furnished apartments within a tight-knit community. They have access to a multitude of on-site services, including therapy, case management and court advocacy, a household pantry, mobile medical/dental services, and evening programming to support life skill development and recovery. Families commit to living here one year, although many remain longer to achieve their goals. The average stay for families in 2023 was 28 months. Unlike more short-term transitional housing programs, families remain at Amethyst Place as long as needed to prepare for independent living and achieve personal goals. When they graduate our program, they maintain access to all services. In 2023, we served 163 women and children. 96% of children in out-of-home placement reunified with their mom.

Therapeutic Support - Families have access to on-site therapeutic services provided by our therapeutic team, which includes a Director of Clinical Operations, Clinical Therapist, Child & Family Therapist, and Group Therapist. Most adult residents have a substance use disorder with co-occurring depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD. Additionally, children often arrive with a host of emotional issues that are a result of separation from their parents and experiencing the chaos of parental substance use, making the need for family therapy essential to improving family functioning and relationships. Each family develops an individualized care plan in concert with the Clinical team. Amethyst Place uses a variety of evidence-based therapies and practices to help families better manage their mental health and heal from trauma in individual, family, and group modalities. In 2023, women averaged Building Capacity (a score of 4 on a scale of 1-5) for their Parenting and Mental Health domains on the Arizona Self-Sufficiency Matrix.

Family Empowerment - This program helps families overcome generational poverty through comprehensive support that addresses their educational, vocational, financial, and wellness goals. Our Family Empowerment Program leverages the power of peer support and lived experience through the work of three staff who are previous graduates of Amethyst Place. They help families address common pitfalls of early recovery: poor physical health/nutrition, financial management, job history, and educational attainment. All provide individual recovery coaching fused with their specialty areas. They also coordinate and deliver weekly Empowerment programming focused on workforce development, household management, life skills, parenting, financial literacy, wellness, recovery, and a host of other topics. All three staff members lead Amethyst Place Sisterhood, a graduate aftercare program that has successfully kept graduates engaged when they move out of Amethyst Place. A new addition to the Family Empowerment Program is the Youth Empowerment Program (YEP!), which has allowed us to establish youth and adult tracks to empowerment. Each child living at Amethyst Place has their own Youth Empowerment Coach for case management and support, including regular check-ins, coordination with schools, connections to extracurricular activities, and other services to support their well-being, resilience, and growth. In addition to individual support, we also provide services through group programming.