Alpha Home Inc.

The mission of Alpha Home is to provide spiritually-based substance abuse treatment and support to women and their families in order to prepare them to become more productive members of society. The vision of Alpha Home, Inc. is to serve as a bridge of hope for women seeking freedom from substance abuse offering spirituality, counseling, prevention resources, and interactive education in a safe, compassionate home environment from a team of dedicated staff and volunteers.

Description:
Alpha Home offers both residential and outpatient services for women. The residential program is 90 days and outpatient is 4-6 months. Alpha Home has also recently partnered with Family Service Association of San Antonio to form The Family First Program; a prevention and intervention program for pregnant and post-partum women. Alpha Home offers individual counseling and group sessions which include; Drug and Alcohol Education, Relapse Prevention, Process Groups, Parenting Skills, and Anger Resolution. Alpha's newest projects are the Alumnae Program and the Children's Program. The Alumnae Program will continue to serve the women that have come through Alpha Home. It will help raise community awareness and allow alumnae to be involved in Alpha Home projects and serve as mentors.
The Children's Program will serve the children of the women that are currently in treatment at Alpha by offering counseling and activities to teach them coping skills and resiliency.

History:
Alpha Home began as a mission of Trinity Baptist Church in 1966 with the purpose of ministering to alcoholic women. What began as a ministry to a single woman has grown into an organization that treated 362 chemically addicted women in 2004 at 2 locations.

Contact people:

Nangie Lowrie, Executive Assistant, (210) 735-3822, (email) Julie Wisdom-Wild, Executive Director, (210) 735-3822, (email)

Office fax number: (210) 223-4312

Address:

300 East Mulberry San Antonio, TX 78212 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.alphahome.org

Last updated on March 9, 2009