Featured Community Partner for November

The Next Door is one-of-a-kind in its approach to walking alongside women struggling with addiction. it is one of the only organizations in the southeast providing a full continuum of affordable, gender-specific treatment for women in a faith-based environment and that offers priority in admissions to pregnant women. The Next Door uses a treatment model that integrates 12-step programming, faith, and evidence-based practices to address the needs of the whole woman – mind, body, and spirit.

Renewal House serves more than 500 women and children a year through all of its programs combined. The organization helps women gain the skills to remain sober, give their children nurturing care, improve their physical and mental health, and secure employment. Long-term impact is profound, as women are able to provide stable housing and other basic family needs, avoid legal entanglements and become contributing community members. For the children, early intervention and prevention services lessen their probability of developing a substance use disorder and other adolescent behavioral health problems. Renewal House saves significant taxpayer dollars, decreasing state welfare, foster care, healthcare and criminal justice costs. 

For 124 years, the YWCA has helped women, girls, and families in Nashville and Middle Tennessee build safer, more self-sufficient lives. The YW does this by operating the largest domestic violence shelter in the region so adults and children fleeing abuse can heal. The organization empowers youth to break down negative gender stereotypes through Girls Inc. and AMEND Together. The YW also  provides the tools needed to become successful in work and life through Dress for Success and our Family Learning Center. Programs are FREE to the thousands of people served each year and are offered to everyone.

The New Beginnings Center is a lifestyle and fitness center where health and wellbeing improvements are available to women of all income levels.  NBC offers  a system of lifestyle coaching that includes nutrition, exercise and the actual process of change itself.  The Center provides clients a health and wellness program like no other that produces REAL and lasting results, offered to ALL women, regardless of their ability to pay or their background.

Meet the team from New Beginnings at our August meetings!

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee works to provide youth facing adversity with the guidance they need to help them succeed by matching them with an adult mentor. The organization creates professionally supported mentoring programs to develop positive relationships between a Big and Little that have a lasting impact on a young person’s life. 

You can be the difference. All youth have potential, they just need someone to defend it. One-to-one mentoring provides young people with the support and opportunities they need to help build successful futures. Littles dream big, and BBBS mentors empower them to reach their fullest potential.

There are a lot of Littles who want a positive role model in their life. More mentors are needed to ignite the power and promise of our youth. As a Big, you’ll change a young person’s life, but they’ll also change yours. Reach out to learn more about becoming a mentor today!  https://mentorakid.org/become-a-big/>>

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End Slavery Tennessee (ESTN) works tirelessly to advocate for human trafficking victims, educate communities across the state and the region, and inform legislators about the critical need to enact tougher laws so that traffickers are duly prosecuted. These important efforts have resulted in vigorous laws that make Tennessee one of the toughest states in prosecuting human trafficking violations. It also resulted in ESTN’s designation by the Governor’s Public Safety Subcabinet as the regional point of contact for 41 counties in Middle Tennessee for victim referrals. 

Read more about their work here. 

Play Like a Girl leverages the transferable skills middle school girls gain from sport to give them a competitive edge in the classroom and, ultimately, propel them into competitive, male-dominated careers in STEM as young women.

 PLAG's programs connect girls with inspiring women role models and mentors, unveil the many pathways to a STEM career, and guide them toward leadership—ultimately, building girls’ confidence for a future in STEM.  Learn more about their work here. 

Thistle Farms is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to helping women survivors recover and heal from prostitution, trafficking, and addiction. The organization does this by providing a safe place to live, a meaningful job, and a lifelong sisterhood of support.

Founded in Nashville in 1997, Thistle Farms provides housing, case management, healthcare, counseling, education, and employment for women survivors for two years - free of charge. Additionally, meaningful employment leading to financial freedom is instrumental in the healing journey. TF's three social enterprises - Body & Home, The Café, and Global Shared Trade - provide both gateway and permanent jobs for survivors, as well as revenue for the mission.