About this Recovery House
SPA Women's Ministry Homes is a certified women's sober living home on Toledo Road in Elkhart, Indiana, in Elkhart County.
A Certified Women's Sober House on Toledo Road
SPA Women's Ministry Homes operates a certified residence on Toledo Road in Elkhart, in Elkhart County. As a women's program, the house works with women facing addiction alongside other destructive life circumstances, including domestic violence, sexual assault and prostitution, treating all of them as related crises a woman may be recovering from at once.
Nearly Three Decades Serving Women in Crisis
The organization has run its program for 29 years and says it has helped more than 1,500 women recover from drug and alcohol addiction in that time. That tenure gives SPA Women's Ministry Homes a track record most newer recovery housing operators in the area cannot match, and it means the staff running the house today are working from decades of accumulated experience with this specific population.
A Christian Recovery Program
SPA Women's Ministry Homes describes its work explicitly in Christian terms, framing recovery as a relationship with Jesus Christ. Applicants should expect that framework to run through daily programming, not simply an optional chapel service, and a woman looking for a secular recovery house should look elsewhere.
What Indiana Certification Establishes
SPA Women's Ministry Homes is certified in Indiana, a status that requires the residence to disclose its fees and rules in writing before move-in, follow a published code of ethics, and remain open to outside complaint review. Certification runs through Indiana's NARR affiliate, the Indiana Affiliation of Recovery Residences, and through Indiana's Recovery Residence Designation registry, which lists the house by name.
Recovery Housing in Elkhart County
Elkhart sits in Elkhart County, in north central Indiana, with Goshen as the county seat nearby. The area's economy has long centered on manufacturing, and a resident at SPA Women's Ministry Homes is positioned near that job base along with the outpatient and social service providers that serve the county's two largest cities.
Applying to SPA Women's Ministry Homes
Women apply to SPA Women's Ministry Homes directly through the organization's program application. The organization also hosts events such as a Breakfast and Tour for prospective residents and their families to see the house and meet staff before applying, a step worth taking before committing to a program built on a specific faith framework.
ABOUT US
Our program began as a three month term. However, we noticed that the ladies who chose to stay longer had higher success rates, and we lengthened our program to four months, six months, and presently we are at a yearlong program. Until 2010, I was living in the home with the ladies and was on call 24/7. As the ministry grew, there was a need for help.
The volunteer staff was built from our graduates who believed God called them to give back and those who stayed connected because of the changes experienced by their family member through the program.
