Since 1957, The Women’s Home has provided a safe, supportive environment giving women in crisis the opportunity to rebuild their lives with long-term housing and support services.

Each year, The Women’s Home provides individually structured rehabilitative services to approximately ninety women with mental illness or substance abuse issues through its Wholife program. Based on each woman’s needs, the program offers residential care, psychiatric and nurse-practitioner services, psychotherapy, job-skills training, chemical dependency counseling and nondenominational spiritual growth services.

The Wholife model is supported by three separate but interrelated programs: residential, clinical and vocational. The residential program is particularly important as it provides the environment and support structures necessary for clients to advance toward their clinical and vocational goals. Women entering the program in the first phase of their stay, live in a highly structured dormitory-style setting. In the second phase, they are moved into group transitional housing. In both phases they are given roommates. In the third phase, a woman will be provided with her own room for the last six months of her residency. This will offer her an additional step toward self-sufficiency by providing an opportunity to experience independent living away from the main campus while still having access to the Home’s services and support structures. Women may stay in the program for up to eighteen months.

The J. Jill Compassion Fund’s grant of $15,000 is being used to support the Wholife program. With help from this grant, the program helps women in crisis regain their independence and dignity, empowering them to return to society as productive, self-sufficient individuals.

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For more information on The Women’s Home, please contact:
The Women’s Home
607 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77006-3915
phone: 713.521.3150
web site: www.thewomenshome.org