Captive Hearts has established homes that will accommodate a housemother and up to six women who have been designated through the Court system to go into a recovery program or to those who come on their own seeking a rehabilitative program to help them get back on their feet.   In this safe-haven environment, they come face to face with their past to receive healing and acceptance through unconditional love.

Many facilities do not have a great success rate.  We’ve seen the rise and fall of many recovery programs and have strived to address all the bases that lead to success.   As human beings, we are made up of three parts, spirit, soul and body.   If we do not have a balance in dealing with all areas, we become weak.   First of all, our spirit is the direct connection with God that needs to be strengthened on a daily basis.  Our soul consists of our damaged and fragile mind, emotions, thoughts / behavior patterns and our will.   This area needs restoration as well.  Our body must be nurtured and revived, especially when they have been deprived of nutriments and exercise.   Captive Hearts feels that with the balance given to each of these parts one can be made whole.

We have established a three-phase program that has been shown adequate in the development of a well-rounded person.   The program is from six months to one year depending upon a person’s progress, and is not dependent if one is Court ordered or not.

Phase I – 1st and 2nd months

• Two meetings a day, noon and evening with NA or AA. We hold a session in our home that is open to women in the community only.
• Power to Choose, Steps 1-2-3
• One-on-one counseling weekly
• Learning Improvement Course for 1 hour a day
• Community service hours
• Horse therapy – one day a month from 10 am – 4 pm
• Doctor appointments

Phase II – 3rd and 4th months

• Power to Choose, Steps 4-5-6
• Boundaries Series – weekly for two months
• Two meetings a day with NA or AA
• Doing homework on the computer
• Going home for a weekend pass
• One-on-one counseling weekly
• Group settings

Phase III – 5th and 6th months

• Power to Choose, Steps 7-8
• Breaking Free or other class
• Relapse Prevention
• 12-Steps to Co-Dependency
• Job training and starting to work
• One-on-one counseling

One of the greatest joys is seeing the transformation that takes place in the lives of our ladies as they come into our recovery home beaten down and feeling hopeless, having lost everything, sometimes even their children. Most have reached the bottom and don’t see a way out. It takes determination and a lot of hard work as they surrender to work a program of discipline and changing their behavior. Long gone are the days of sleeping life away only to be found dead in a ditch from an overdose or passed out from alcohol poisoning. Without the commitment of our housemother, Cyd, and Brandi, the Director of Programs over the home, we would not see such positive results. Here is a daily schedule of what Captive Hearts offers in seeing lives restored:

  6:30   Rise and shine for breakfast, chores and preparing for the day
  8:00   Prayer and devotions
  8:30   Classes
11:00   Lunch
12:00  Outside meeting
  1:00   Classes
  3:00   Down time
4-5:00 Dinner preparation and clean up
  8:00   Speaker meeting
  9:00   Night devotions

We also have outings at the Melodrama (a local vaudeville theatre), picnics and fellowship, beach outings and time with family. One of our greatest desires is to see families restored.