Pregnancy and Addiction
The most vulnerable women The Next Door serves are our pregnant clients. These women walk through our doors in active addiction and are in dire need of treatment services for both them and their unborn children. If women don’t get help, there can be serious negative health outcomes for pregnant women and their developing babies, […]
Monday Meditation: “The Hill We Climb”
– Written by Rev. Tambi Swiney I can’t get her words out of mind. Last Wednesday, 22-year-old Amanda Gorman burst into the world’s collective consciousness as she recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Gorman began and ended her poem with references to light. In the opening line […]
Talking To Your Children About COVID19 (And Other Hard Things)
– Written by Elizabeth Scoville, Family Interventionist A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine was putting her eight-year-old son to bed, and he was crying. “What’s wrong?” she asked him. “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my whole life.” Raise your hand if you agree with him. When COVID-19 pushed […]
Mom Guilt
by Candise Hendricks, Grant Writer for The Next Door Hello! My name is Candise, and I am The Next Door’s grant writer. I’m blessed to be the mother of two beautiful little girls. Both are under the age of three. Prayers for patience and sleep are appreciated! After both of my daughters were born, many […]
Blog Post – Strong
Sallie Hussey I grew up in a family of strong women. My sisters and I were fortunate to have vibrant, talented women, like my grandmother, and even great grandmother, who were wonderful examples. My grandmother, a newspaper reporter, gave me a giant hard-back Webster’s dictionary when I started first grade. She told me to “ask […]
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