About New Life For Adults and Youth – Richmond
The Mercy House at New Life For Youth is a faith based alcohol and drug addiction recovery center in Richmond, Virginia. They exclusively serve women with a program based on love, accountability, and excellence rooted in Biblical teaching and God’s love. This is a residential facility with modern amenities.
Treatment at Mercy House focuses on empowering clients and finding their inner strength and value. Their approach aims to heal clients physically, spiritually, and mentally.
The Mercy House is for adult women from all walks of life who are struggling with substance abuse. Clients live in the house for the length of treatment, which lasts between 12 and 18 months, depending on need and progress. While living at Mercy House, staff monitors and supports clients to ensure safety and success.
Mercy House’s program helps women overcome addiction by overcoming the challenges that brought them to addiction by discovering God’s love. Treatment includes counseling, mentorship, case management, parenting education, vocational education, and a recovery curriculum. Clients engage with their treatment through classes delivered in a highly structured environment.
Women leave the Mercy House with a comprehensive set of life skills that will help them healthily deal with stressful triggers, become better parents, hold jobs, and live lives free from addiction.
IOP is considered the next step down from residential care. It’s ideal for clients who are stable enough that close monitoring isn’t required but still exhibit strong symptoms. New Life For Youth offers IOP care for men and women.
Clients do not live at a recovery home or facility for IOP. Instead, they visit the facility to receive treatment, which is offered on a flexible schedule to accommodate work and classes. IOP offers treatment in the form of individual and group therapy rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) modalities, with focuses on anger management, communication skills, and numerous specialty groups.