The NARROW ROAD HOME

1. The NARROW ROAD HOME • Supportive Living Transforming Lives

2. Our Vision • * The NARROW ROAD Home from it’s inception has been designed to be a safe haven for healing and a landing place of HOPE. This is key ingredient is often missing and must replace the sorrow and feelings of helplessness that permeates many hurting families. We desire for light to radiate and replace where darkness has taken over in fractured lives. • * This highly structured and supportive environment has been thoughtfully and strategically planned. The mentor’s focus is to bring wholeness and restoration to women and their families that a lifestyle of addiction and a subsequent loss of self has replaced the realizing potential and true spirit of that individual. • * The women who will cross the threshold of TNR will graduate from our program as OVERCOMERS. Carrying with them an invaluable set of life tools and skills that will ensure them prepared with self-awareness and self-knowledge of who they really by utilizing the GIFTINGS they carry to better the world.

3. TheVision Continues • Our support and healing groups will be focussed on finding out who they are in God’s purpose and plan. Who they are as women set free from addictions and self-destructive habits and thinking patterns. The NARROW ROAD Home wants to includes immediate family members each women’s journey by encouraging visitations and outings on Sunday. • Recovery is a journey to be walked through in partnership with supportive community support. By providing a nurturing atmosphere coupled with dedicated and loving mentors, many whom have walked this path before them, we can offer a home of healing and a home of HOPE restored and reclaimed for the entire family. • Our desire is to provide a service of healing intervention whilst giving back to the community of High River by providing opportunities to volunteer and be contributors to the community. This will be foundational in our program and instrumental in bringing out a woman’s inherent goodness by empowering her to Give Back to others in turn builds feeling of self- worth.

4. Our Goals • To provide life skills coaching (group and individual) to facilitate open and transparent processing and communication. • To introduce residents to a recovery and spiritual healing program through inner healing and self-discovery work. • To support family healing and stability throughout the clients stay and eventual transition and successful re-integration back into the community and home upon graduation of the program.

5. Goals • To be a connecting point whereby graduates may return for love, understanding and support when in need of individual mentorship. • To promote and provide spiritual support and the deliverance ministry aimed at healing the inner wounds and spiritual strongholds. • The transformation of even one woman’s life can powerfully impact her family, her community, and generations to come. • To provide a safe, stable and nurturing home environment to foster growth and healing.

6. The Women we Serve • The following statistical information will help provide a profile of our future clients at the High River Location. Data was compiled and statistics were compiled from information provided by the former residents of Oriana Manor in Lethbridge, Alberta.(Permission granted by: Administrative Coordinator of Oriana Manor, Lethbridge AB to use the information collected May 2012 - May 2014. Donna-Jo Jeffrey) • This is the demographic we see as most benefitting from and accessing our services. There is a socially recognizable gap for resources for women meeting the following socio-economic criteria. The majority of these women are in desperate need of outside intervention but unable to fit the criteria for medical detox or psychotherapeutic interventions. The woman who will access ORIANA are in need emotional and spiritual healing to overcome life struggles that are overwhelming them and hindering their ability to function successfully at home, school or in the workplace:

7. The Women we Serve • Oriana Manor served 11 women over the course of the two year period previously mentioned. • . The oldest woman served was 59 years old and the youngest was 21. • . The Average age was 33.6 years • All but one women came to Lethbridge for supportive housing.

8. The Women we Serve • Of the 11 women 7 women had completed post secondary education. One women had a master's degree from McGill University, 2 others were enrolled in University while living at Oriana Manor and remain enrolled for the Fall semester 2014. Of the 2 women who had not completed post secondary education only one was not a grade 12 graduate. • . The shortest stay at Oriana Manor was 2.5 months and the longest stay was 14 months. All women were gainfully employed or attending post secondary while residing at Oriana Manor. Only 1 women collected Social Financial Independent Benefits while residing at Oriana Manor.

9. The Women we Serve • . All women took on community volunteer positions upon arrival at Oriana Manor. As will also be required at The NARROW ROAD Home. • . Of the 11 women 5 had been married - One was widowed the other 4 divorced. 3 women were mothers - one with grown children and one with 3 children in the care of the Alberta Gov. The third's single child in the care of extended family.

10. The Women we Serve • Only two of our 11 residents had concurring disorders and both were considered mild diagnoses. • . We had 3 relapses over the 2 years. • - 2 of the three relapses were the same woman and she was asked to leave Oriana Manor after the second occasion. She did not remain in Lethbridge but returned to the city she originally came from. • -Of the 11 women served at Oriana Manor 1 woman has returned to a residential recovery centre. All but ONE woman remains in recovery today.

11. Why HIGH RIVER? • High River is the perfect place to foster emotional healing due to its acceptance for many “walks of life”and compassion for those in need of a “leg up”. Our community has been a shining example of the willingness to accept change promoting all aspects of growth coupled with a come-togetherness in times of adversity. • The house is in close proximity to local churches, shopping, medical services and parks. Backing onto beautiful George Lane Park provides ample opportunity for picnics and birdwatching. Our residents will not have access to personal vehicles so community outings will encourage outdoor fitness and walking trips for local errands.

12. Why High River? • Thus far, many of neighbour and various local small business owners have shown overwhelming support and encouragement for the home to come to fruition and what it can offer to women and their families by way of a safe environment for emotional healing. We will continue to meet and educate the rest of the neighbourhood on our Vision and encourage them meet with us and tour the house if they desire. • The Home will be constantly monitored by way of a live-in House mother providing group facilitation and to accompany the women on all community outings. • The house was formerly a Nurses Residence, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging house and Music Studio. The size, layout, number of individual bedrooms and bathrooms, lends itself to an ideal setting for supportive living along with private, serene setting for self-reflection and quiet times. • The home is an ideal space for women out down roots feel at home. which includes one full-time, live-in House Mother. It is our desire to have 5 full-time women the first year of operation.

13. Finally, above all, we believe unconditional love and forgiveness are often missing in many childhoods of the broken and lost. The heart of our Healing home is that by the grace of God’s promise we can be set Free to live life well. Our desire it to gently guide women through a process of being transformed and healed from the inner wounds that have held them back for enjoying the fullness of life they so deserve. Our desire is to see those wounds healed through a renewing of the mind, nurturing relationships and the modelling of healthy behaviours and habits that are life-giving.