Hey Friend: Helping Families Heal Together

Our Why

Every mother deserves the opportunity to heal. Every child deserves the chance to grow up with a healthy, stable parent.

Hey Friend was created to expand recovery housing opportunities for women with children, ensuring that mothers seeking recovery do not have to choose between getting help and staying connected to their families.

Across our communities, countless women are ready to begin their recovery journey, yet many face an impossible barrier: safe housing that allows them to remain with their children. Too often, the lack of family-centered recovery housing separates mothers from the very people they are fighting to recover for.

Your gift helps change that.

Through Hey Friend, we are working to increase access to recovery housing, provide supportive services, and create environments where women and children can heal together. Our goal is simple: help families stay together while building a foundation for long-term recovery, stability, and hope.

Were Your Gift Goes

Our goal is to raise $250,000, which will be divided equally among three programs providing recovery housing and family-centered support for women and children. If we reach our goal, each program will receive approximately $83,333 to help more families remain together while mothers build lasting recovery.

Recovery Community, Inc. Women with Children’s Home - Nashville, Tennessee

Opened in October 2024, the home provides recovery housing for pregnant women and mothers with children, many of whom have been involved in the justice system. During its first year, the program celebrated 12 babies born drug-free and helped eight children reunite with their mothers after living in foster care or with family caregivers.

Hope For All - Charleston, West Virginia

Hope For All operates a 44-bed recovery program providing women with six to 12 months of structured support, including recovery services, meals, employment assistance, and life-skills development. The program serves pregnant women and parenting mothers while making family reunification a central focus through coordination with courts, Child Protective Services, parenting educators, and other providers.

The Journey - Ashland, Kentucky

The Journey is a 25-bed residential recovery center providing care for pregnant women, early-parenting mothers, and other women with substance use disorders. Women may remain in the program for one to nine months while receiving therapy, peer support, case management, parenting education, relapse-prevention services, and employment assistance.

Why It Matters

When a mother enters recovery, an entire family has the opportunity to heal. Research consistently shows that stable housing is one of the strongest predictors of long-term recovery success. For women with children, access to family-centered recovery housing can mean the difference between reunification and separation, hope and uncertainty, recovery and relapse.

• Nearly 19 million children in the United States, 1 in every 4 children, live in a household with at least one parent who has a substance use disorder.

• More than 7.6 million children live with a parent who has a moderate or severe substance use disorder, placing families at increased risk for instability, separation, and adverse health outcomes.

• Housing instability is one of the strongest predictors of poor recovery outcomes and is recognized by SAMHSA as a key factor affecting treatment retention, recovery, employment, and long-term stability.

Every dollar helps remove barriers that stand between a family and a fresh start.

By supporting Hey Friend, you are investing in recovery, strengthening families, and helping create brighter futures for mothers and children.

Your Gift Makes a Difference

Your support helps address one of the greatest barriers to long-term recovery for mothers: access to stable housing, ongoing support, and the opportunity to heal alongside their children.

• Individuals who remained in treatment or recovery-supportive environments for 90 days or longer were nearly twice as likely to be abstinent one year later (46.8% vs. 24.1%) compared to those who stayed fewer than 21 days.

• In one recovery housing study, participants who had access to recovery housing achieved 37% abstinence rates after six months, compared to just 13% for those receiving standard community referrals alone. When recovery housing was paired with additional recovery supports, abstinence rates increased to 50%.

Together, we can ensure that no woman has to choose between recovery and her family.

Whether you make a one-time gift or become a recurring donor, your support directly helps women and children find safety, stability, and hope.

Because every mother deserves a chance to heal.

Because every child deserves a brighter future.

Thank you for being a friend to families in recovery.

Hey Friend is an initiative of Hope in the Hills, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.