Inside the Theodora House on North Pennsylvania Street in Indianapolis work is being done to give mothers a second chance at life and being a mom again. KaitlynReports
Staff greets you as you walk into the facility, but through a few locked doors there's still more to this facility.
The Fresh Start Recovery Program is run by Volunteers of America, and the name says it all. The program is meant to give moms a fresh start on life. Their children can stay with them while they go through the intense drug treatment program, instead of separating them during one of their most trying times.
The program offers weekly classes that show the women what they'll need when they go back into the world, which can be seen as full of temptation.Inside the facility they even offer a weekly workout class. "A lot of times they are marginalized by society and ostracized even. We come in here without judgment or condemnation," Pastor David Strovick said.
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