MARYSVILLE—Hope Heals NW, a nonprofit providing recovery housing in Snohomish County, will be holding an open house for its new Glenwood Recovery House for women this Friday, October 11 to commemorate its grand opening.
This will be Hope Heals NW’s second Marysville recovery house for women, second to The Gold Course recovery house which opened on December 1, 2023. What’s special about the new Glenwood house, however, is its capacity to allow children to visit their parents while in sober living and even stay in private living spaces overnight — something the Gold Course is not set up for.
Those who are staying at the Hope Heals NW houses are required to adopt a certain level of structure including attending regular meetings and find a sponsor as well as weekly partake in a weekly chore schedule.
Both houses primarily function is to serve as a sober living space. While they are not equipped, at this time, to offer services such as meetings and counseling they refer out to partnered organizations. Offering more on-site services in the near future is something Hope Heals is aspiring toward. These servers will include mentorship and counseling.
The Glenwood Recovery House is 3,158 square feet with six shared bedrooms (11 beds), three bathrooms, two dining rooms, three living room areas and a library study room.
Located in a quiet residential neighborhood bordering the Cedarcrest golf course, the house also has a completely private backyard oasis and covered deck, is a short walk to public transportation and the library and is located directly next door to a women’s Oxford house.
The decision to open a second house in Marysville was twofold; stemming from the first regularly hitting capacity, but also to allow a house for mothers who may not have full custody of their children but still wished to visit with them. When it opens this Friday, the Glenwood Recovery House will be one of very few recovery houses in the area who allow children to stay overnight.
Friday’s open house, which will be held from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., will grant people the opportunity to see, first-hand, what a recovery house looks like, how they’re set up,
“It’s really important to me that the houses are really clean, the furniture is really clean and organized, and they are nice spaces for living,” Kiera Dragich, Founder and Executive Director of Hope Heals NW informed the Lynnwood Times. “I think [the open house] is a cool opportunity for people who are in their forever space to get familiar with our program, come see our house, and even for people who maybe be interested in starting a house to see what that looks like.”
Dragich, who is not in recovery herself, worked for the city of Marysville prior to founding her own recovery organization. As an owner of several rental properties in the area she said she was inspired to open recovery houses for women after speaking to a recovery house operator/owner in Everett.
Hope Heals NW’s mission is to become a partner in re-building fulfilling lives by providing safe, stable, supportive, and nurturing recovery housing environments to individuals overcoming addiction, its website states. The key values of its program are recovery, respect, safety, personal growth, and family.
“It’s really fulfilling to me to see people come into a nice, safe, space and they heal themselves,” said Dragich. “They’re able to get their own apartment or get reunited with their families or get a job – things that they couldn’t necessarily do without stable housing. The women that come into our program are awesome. Often there’s a stigma of people in recovery but my women are kind, and thoughtful, and it’s so cool to get to know them on that level.”
The Glenwood Recovery House is located at 4911 122nd Place NE, Marysville, Washington, 98271. It still has seven vacancies and is accepting applications through hopehealsnw.org/properties.
The cost of the program is $700 a month (all utilities included) with a one-time, non-refundable, move-in fee of $250. Hope Heals NW also accepts housing vouchers.
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This is commendable. That being said, there needs to be a program for those who have fallen on hard times and are not drug addicts or alcoholics. Those people seem to not be helped in any form.