OpenDoors operates two transitional women’s houses, the Foundations House and the Women and Children’s House. Each program provides a host of supportive services to justice-involved women as they work towards re-entry and recovery.

We are excited to further develop our women’s services with the introduction of the She Thrives Program. This project is funded by a recent grant from the DOJ’s Second Chance Act that will allow OpenDoors to provide our services to 300 women over three years.

In collaboration with Brown University, we will be running a randomized controlled trial to measure the impact of re-entry services on recidivism. This will let us prove quantitatively that we can end the cycle of addiction and incarceration by investing in people, not prisons.

As part of this project, we are working to pair social support with groundbreaking medical treatment to help women combat addiction. These innovative treatments use GLP-1 medications to help manage substance cravings, simultaneously supporting our clients’ recoveries and contributing to important medical research.