Supporting individuals seeking long term recovery from addiction by providing access to safe, supportive recovery housing, peer support services and a healing community.
Bridge Programs: The Bridge Provides support individuals and Families in Recovery in four primary areas of focus:
- Direct Grants to individuals throughout Pennsylvania for Recovery Housing and connection to Peer-to-Peer Coaching and Recovery Support Services
- Family Education, Advocacy and Support
- The Bridge to Creativity Music and Arts Program
- Recovery Information, Resources and Support referrals in the Philadelphia area and statewide
The Bridge Solution: The Bridge Foundation is a non-profit organization which supports individuals and families in Recovery from drug and alcohol and other behavioral-related problems. The Bridge Foundation believes that there exists a need for a local, supportive, community-based and inclusive residential Peer environment for individuals as they are in the process of navigating challenging transitions that occur during the Recovery Process, and offers a new paradigm that will:
- Provide a physical environment and holistic community where people in recovery can come together in fellowship to work toward common healthy practices;
- Foster the quest for adults to find the right balance in their lives and relationships
- Enable opportunities for sustainable skill development and cultivation of a trade to foster financial independence while pursuing one’s own individual interests and passions
- Provide tools for survival, self-sufficiency, dignity and lifelong freedom from limitations
- Support sustainable, environmentally conscious, long-term housing security
- Engage in a 12 Step Program when appropriate in ways that are meaningful
- Create Bridges to Nature, Creativity, Music, the Arts, and Community
The Pennsylvania Recovery Care Farm Collaborative: The Bridge Foundation supports the development and implementation of an evidence-based and practice-based Care Farm Model to offer an additional pathway to recovery for people impacted by substance use and mental health conditions. Three agencies currently make up this collaboration: The Bridge Foundation, C4 Innovations, and the Vilomah Foundation.
Roots and Wings Farm is a Collaborative pilot project that will be replicable and expanded, which will include one recovery house and a barn on 2 acres, serving women in recovery who are entering recovery housing following incarceration.