Volunteers For Recovery

06/11/2026

If you are a Judge, Magistrate, or treatment center this is for you!

👀TN SB 0207 in the SAFE ACT PROHIBITS you from referring individuals to recovery residences that are not CERTIFIED. There are actually penalties that are included in this law for when people are sent to NON-CERTIFIED recovery residences unless there are no open beds in a CERTIFIED home. 👀

So, here is my question🙋🏼‍♀️… why do yall continue to do this? Why do yall continue to send people to places that are “flop houses”⁉️If a recovery residence chooses to not get certified or better yet, can’t get certified, I assure you there is a reason. It’s been my experience they can’t get certified because they refuse to remove beds when they are over the necessary square footage per bed. 🚫

Certification is not a difficult thing to achieve. For the state of TN to actually have a LAW that must be followed, says a lot. It says the state has recognized these recovery residences are “warehousing” human beings.

So, if you are going to hold the individuals that stand before you to the law, then shouldn’t you also be following the law? 🤷‍♀️We won’t even get into the fact that ALL 💵 paid for deposits, rent, etc that ultimately comes from HUD on the federal level, is only supposed to be paid to CERTIFIED housing. We will leave that for another day.

To locate certified homes in your area, see below for that link.

06/08/2026

You don’t want to miss this!

Why Attend the NARR Best Practices Summit?

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06/04/2026

We truly have some of the BEST participants in this program. We pull up to our house after being gone for 38 days and nights and what is there? This little “welcome home” sign that is signed by all of the ladies in our women’s program. It truly put a smile of his face! We are so grateful for each and every one of you. It’s not easy to not be here doing what we do each day.

Thank you all for thinking about us!

06/04/2026

Let’s welcome this guy home! Finally after 38 long nights, our men’s program director gets to come home tomorrow from receiving what we hope will literally be a life saving cancer treatment. He is the backbone to this program, the heart and soul of it. Thank you Jesus for keeping him safe during this difficult time!

05/31/2026

Finally…they are suing and they are winning!

The U.S. Attorney's Office sued Beekman, NY, for blocking a sober home. Learn what this federal FHA enforcement means for your sober living zoning rights.

05/27/2026

If not a 12 step program.? Then what? After all these years I’m still waiting for something that works as well as AA or NA. If anyone has a different solution please share.

05/27/2026

New op-ed from President Trump’s Great American Recovery Initiative Co-Chairs Secretary Kennedy and Kathryn Burgum: “We struggled with addiction for years before finding recovery, and we stand as a proof that recovery is real.”

05/23/2026

Good read!

There is an outbreak of housing discrimination with prejudice against individuals with substance use disorder in Tennessee. Due to the unlawful efforts by some local governments to restrict where recovery residences may exist, housing discrimination has been a silent epidemic for years that has caus...

05/21/2026

New beds and jobs available for both women and men! No intake fee? Not a problem. Thanks to our in-house back to work program, we are able to help you not have to worry about the financial side of things. Two forms of ID, and some willingness, along with the desire to not use is all you need!

05/20/2026

Congratulations to these three guys! Each of them completed VFR last month and today they graduated their recovery court. They each had the GRIT that it took to change their lives. We are so proud of each of them. May you all continue your road on recovery. Now, it’s time for you to be of service and to give back to the newcomers what was so freely given to you!