Women’s Hope, located in Dorchester, provides up to 45 days of residential treatment program for women addressing substance use disorders. This program provides up to 45 days of specialized treatment and can accommodate up to 20 women, including pregnant and post partum women and their infants. Through case management and addiction recovery support, the program seeks to empower each resident to maintain systems of support while preparing for independent living.

The program is very diverse serving women of all ages and cultures. Many of the women who go through our Women’s Hope program are also living with HIV/AIDS, mental health disorders or other chronic conditions. For these women access to recovery resources may be limited however at Women’s Hope no one is turned away.

This structured education and therapy program was designed to address the specific needs of women and with sensitivity to the unique issues women face around addiction, substance use disorders and recovery. The program also helps residents develop a wide-range of life skills while building self-awareness and confidence. Through a variety of services residents of our Women’s Hope program become increasingly self-sufficient and find stability as they continue in their own recovery.

Originally founded in 1997 as the “Women’s Chemical Dependency Program” at the Massachusetts Osteopathic Hospital, the program was born out of media reports describing the poor treatment of women serving jail sentences under a law called “section-35” and as a result of serious substance use disorders. This program was the first 60-day treatment program to provide services to the “section-35” women. Through a strategic alliance with the Mass Osteopathic Hospital, Victory Program purchased the original site for the program in 1989. The program was moved to its current site in 1996 with a grand opening ceremony that included Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Miss America 1996, Kate Shindle dedicating two new building as our Women’s Hope and our adjacent Women’s Transitional Home programs.

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