Our Services

DWC Recovery Programs

We use a holistic approach to recovery and believe that when individuals seek help from DWC they can, in time, live clean and sober lives. We offer hope, but we also offer practical resources for changing lives.

These include:

• Health—to abstain from alcohol and illicit drugs to create opportunities to make informed, healthy choices to support physical, dental care, and emotional well-being;
• Home—to provide a stable and safe place to live, along with their children;
• Purpose—to participate in meaningful daily activities, i.e. job, education, volunteering, etc., as well as having the independence, income, and the resources necessary to engage in societal activities;
• Community—to develop relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope for a better future.

Gratitude House

Gratitude House, our newest shelter located at 11th and Jackson Streets in downtown Amarillo, is the second phase of our Recovery Program. Our first resident moved in April 2016. These apartments are staffed 24/7. The apartment complex is directly across the alley and parking lot from Opportunity School (for younger children) and down the street from DWC’s thrift stores, where some of our women work and others volunteer to pay the nominal rent.

Day care centers and an elementary school are also nearby. Elwood Park is directly across the street on the west side of Gratitude House providing a playground and park to run and play. While still in our Recovery Program at Gratitude House, single women are asked to pay rent of $150 per month for a one-bedroom apartment fully furnished, decorated with all utilities paid including cable, and moms with children are asked to pay $200 per month for a two-bedroom apartment with all the necessaries furnished including utilities. Women in this second phase will be expected to work and/or attend school, while continuing attendance at AA/NA meetings, attending weekly mandatory in-house meetings, participating in counseling sessions and case management.

These women learn budgeting skills, how to improve parenting and homemaking skills, working on positive self-esteem, and other everyday life skills. Attention is also given to deepening their spiritual beliefs and practices, restoring family relationships and returning to a productive drug-free lifestyle by setting educational and financial goals. For FYE 2016, Gratitude House served 14 adults and 16 children.