OUR MISSION

The Wheelhouse partners with donors and volunteers to provide a supportive environment and recovery tools where men can free themselves from the grip of alcohol and drug addiction to return to society as functional, useful and responsible members.

WHAT WE DO

Here at The Wheelhouse, we are giving men a fighting chance to change their lives, a fighting chance to be reunited with their families and with society, and a fighting chance to recover from their addictions to drugs and alcohol.

We know it is not our job to change these men’s lives. However, we do feel it is our job to provide a safe place for them to do what they need to do.

We run one of the strictest drug and alcohol recovery facilities around. We tell these men what they need to hear, not what they want to hear, and if they don’t like it, they can leave.

Phase One – 30 DAYS

For the first thirty days, we do not allow a man to have a cell phone or to communicate regularly with his family; there is no television, newspapers, computers, or books to read.

The only thing we offer for the first 30 days is the 12-step program of recovery found in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12-step program is a Spiritual Program of recovery … so here at The Wheelhouse, we are unafraid to talk about God.

Your average treatment center working with drug addicts and alcoholics will introduce a client to the 12-step program yet only talk about the first 2 steps. At The Wheelhouse, our men do intensive work on steps one through eight before completing the first phase of our program.

The first 30 days, the first phase of our program, is free.

Phase Two – 90 DAYS

Each man who completes 30 days is welcome to enter our 90-day program.

During this next phase, this 90-day phase, each man works to get his State IDs and his medical and legal troubles addressed, and we get him started on steps 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the 12-step Program of recovery. He is also looking for employment and is working during this time.

Phase Three - SOBER HOME

We have a third Phase, A Sober Home, for men who complete 90 days at The Wheelhouse. The Sober Home is a place for our men to transition from sober living to caring for their own housing and moving into their own homes.

The Wheelhouse is not for everyone … yet we have found great success with those men who come to us. Of those who complete the first two phases of our program, 62% recover.