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Provide Addiction Treatment

  • A help to those who need it

SHAWL – Support for Harbor Area Women’s Lives, is a four-month residential recovery program for 13 homeless, addicted women.

SHAWL provides comprehensive services and treatment in a warm and supportive atmosphere for women who are attempting to end their addiction, live a life free from violence and become self-sufficient.

SHAWL’s highly structured primary program consists of intensive case management and individual counseling with wrap-around supportive services. We offer the following:

  • Individual counseling and case management with Certified Drug & Alcohol Counselors
  • Registered Clinician on site
  • Relapse Prevention
  • Communication 
  • DBT Group (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
  • Tips to Parenting
  • Boundaries
  • Smoking Cessation
  • Art Therapy
  • Anger Management
  • CBT/Mindfulness 
  • Codependency
  • Healing Trauma / Domestic Violence
  • Early Addiction Recovery Skills
  • Seeking Safety
  • Grief and Loss
  • Self-Esteem / Self-Love
  • Health/HIV Education
  • Financial Literacy
  • Lifestyle Groups
  • Meditation and Exercise
  • “Strides in Recovery” Relapse Prevention Exercise Group
  • 12-Step Meetings
  • Community Activities and Service
  • Outside Recreation and Fun Activities

Additionally, based on availability, we hold special workshops throughout the year that focus on hope, healing and recovery.