Breakthru House

Breakthru House served 50 women and 13 children during 2020. Breakthru House transitional services and housing promotes supportive living for women who have completed treatment and need to remain in therapeutic environment. Breakthru House offers a safe place to rebuild their lives as they go through the process of reintegrating into a healthy lifestyle. Breakthru House therapeutic child care (tcc) is a constellation of services provided to children of substance abusing women who are in treatment. This nurturing parenting program is family-centered and designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices. This parenting program has been extensively field tested and validated to teach nurturing skills to parents and children while reinforcing positive family values. Long-term goals include: preventing recidivism in families receiving social services, lowering rates of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reducing the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and halting intergenerational cycles of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors. Tcc also provides an environment where women in recovery can learn to interact in a nurturing, constructive and healthy manner with their children, relearning or learning healthy parenting skills. Parents and children learn how to play games, sing songs and have fun as a family. Tcc is an opportunity to support families in recovery with services and programs that can help all family members heal from the effects of substance abuse. The organization celebrated 52 years of service in 2021. During 2020 because of coronavirus, the organization closed the campus to the public with a view to initiating a method to safeguard the residents and staff. The organization launched a capital campaign "a place to grow" in march 2020 with a goal of raising $1 million to expand bed space and treatment services to mothers with children and women in need of therapeutic transitional care. The organization established sheltered employment within the community in may 2020. During national recovery month september 2020, the organization held an event at atlanta beltline sharing printed pamphlets related to mental health and substance abuse services with the community, held a virtual alumni "speaker jam", and residents participated in the recovery consultant "many roads to recovery". The organization held a physical fitness training in october 2020. A staff retreat held in october 2020 discussing a book "a woman's way through the twelve steps" as well as discussing ethics confidentiality, emergency procedures, the organization's vision and providing team building exercises. The organization plans to develop a Breakthru House occupational partnership project. This project will be an introduction and training into livable wage emerging career opportunities for Breakthru House's clients.