Program Overview
Recovery looks different for every woman. That's why our program is designed with flexibility built in. A minimum of 9 months, and as long as 24 months for women who need more time to rebuild. We are not trying to fill beds and move women through. We are trying to build lifelong relationships that outlast the program itself.
Our approach integrates the proven structure of 12-step principles with the deeper work of spiritual transformation, trauma-informed counseling, and hands-on life skills training. Every component of our program exists for one reason: to give each woman the tools, the faith, and the community she needs to live a healthy, purposeful, and independent life.
Women enter our program in crisis. They leave as leaders. That transformation happens in three phases.
Our Campus
Our purpose-designed campus in North Georgia is being built specifically to support every dimension of recovery. Each space on the property serves the healing process - nothing here is accidental.
Main Residence Building
Large Kitchen and Dining Room
The kitchen is the heart of the main building - a place where residents learn to shop responsibly, prepare meals, and practice the everyday life skills that independent living requires. Shared meals are also where community is built, one conversation at a time.
Resident Library
A curated collection of books and literature selected to support recovery, faith, and personal growth. Residents take ownership of the library - maintaining it, recommending additions, and using it as a personal resource throughout their stay.
Computer Lab
Private Counseling Room
A safe, structured space for residents pursuing online education, completing job applications, or accessing digital resources. Designed to support educational progress while maintaining the focused environment of the program.
Private Counseling Room
Private Counseling Room
Private Counseling Room
One of the most important spaces on our campus. Individual counseling is too often sacrificed at facilities that don't have the space or structure for it. At Women of the Well, every resident has access to private, one-on-one sessions with a licensed professional - because personalized attention leads to better outcomes.
Common Areas
Private Counseling Room
Common Areas
A warm, inviting multipurpose space for community gatherings, guest speakers, state-approved courses, and the simple, irreplaceable moments of friendship and belonging that are essential to healing.
Auxiliary Buildings
The Chapel
The Rescue Kennel
The spiritual center of our campus. The chapel hosts worship services, Bible studies, prayer gatherings, and community events open to the broader North Georgia area. It is both a sanctuary for residents and a bridge to the community around us - a visible expression of our faith and our commitment to Christ-centered recovery.
The Rescue Kennel
The Rescue Kennel
Animal-assisted therapy is one of the most effective non-traditional healing tools available, and we have built a full kennel to make it a central part of our program. Caring for animals builds responsibility, reduces anxiety, supports emotional regulation, and offers the kind of unconditional connection that many of our residents have rarely experienced. For women who have known rejection, a dog's love can be genuinely transformative.
The Art Barn
The Art Barn
Creative expression is not a luxury - it is a proven therapeutic tool for processing trauma, managing stress, and rebuilding self-esteem. Our Art Barn gives residents hands-on creative outlets that produce real, tangible results they can be proud of. The sense of accomplishment that comes from making something with your hands is a powerful part of becoming someone new.
The Garden
The Greenhouse & Canning Room
The Art Barn
Tending a garden slows the mind, grounds the body and provides a daily lesson in patience, stewardship and the rewards of consistent effort. Working in the garden together is where residents learn that growth takes time. And that it is worth waiting for.
The Greenhouse & Canning Room
The Greenhouse & Canning Room
The Greenhouse & Canning Room
Our greenhouse and canning room add a vocational dimension - teaching food preservation, self-sufficiency, and teamwork.
What We Teach
Our curriculum is structed around three interlocking areas of growth - recovery and healing, practical life skills, and spiritual formation. Together they address not just the symptoms of addiction, but its roots.
Recovery and Relapse Prevention
Our Christ-centered 12-step program uses THOR-approved literature to ground each step in biblical principles. Residents work with licensed Georgia Addiction Counselors Association (GACA) professionals in both individual and group settings, developing personalized relapse prevention plans and learning to identify triggers, build healthy coping mechanisms, and establish daily disciplines that sustain sobriety. Creative and animal-assisted therapies - through the art barn and kennel - provide additional non-traditional outlets for healing.
Practical Life Skills
Many of the women we serve have never had the opportunity to learn the skills that independent living requires. Our life skills curriculum covers: household management, meal planning and preparation, Biblical financial literacy (including budgeting, debt management, saving, and tithing), employment readiness, resume building, interviewing skills, basic computer literacy, GED preparation, health and wellness education, and time management. These are not supplemental classes. They are central to who our residents become.
Christ-Centered Spiritual Formation
Spiritual growth is woven into every day of the program, not limited to Sunday services. Residents engage in daily devotions, in-depth Bible study, and guided work on identity in Christ; dismantling the self-perceptions that addiction has built, and replacing them with the truth of who God says they are. We teach boundaries, forgiveness, and emotional coping through spiritual disciplines. Each resident is paired with a trained Christian mentor who walks alongside her with personal guidance, accountability, and genuine care.
Life After Graduation
Graduate Service Program
Graduate Service Program
Graduate Service Program
Every graduate enters a formal one-year support program that includes weekly recovery meetings, regular check-ins with our alumni coordinator, and access to peer support groups. This safety net during the critical first year of independent living is one of the most important things we provide; because the transition from a structured residential environment back into the world is where many women are most vulnerable.
Alumni Network
Graduate Service Program
Graduate Service Program
Women of the Well graduates become part of a lifelong alumni community. A network of women who understand the journey, celebrate each others' milestones, and show up when things get hard. The alumni network hosts social events, volunteer opportunities, and peer mentorship connections that extend the WOW community far beyond the residential program.
Community Outreach
Graduate Service Program
Community Outreach
Our Come and See Peer Mentorship program invites graduates to become advocates; walking alongside women who are just beginning their recovery and sharing what transformation looks like from the other side. Graduates also have opportunities to participate in our community outreach initiative; bringing condensed versions of our life skills and spiritual curriculum to the broader North Georgia community through workshops on financial literacy, parenting skills, and addiction awareness.