The Wenholz House Corpus Christi

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Substance Abuse Recovery House

The Wenholz House is already providing housing and living quarters for individuals that posses a strong desire for reintegration into our local community.  Historically, with substance abuse recovery, people who were in recovery felt the need to stay with one another to offer support, stay sober, and continue working on their program. Halfway houses had been the "patient's" way of seeking aftercare, which had never been a part of treatment program. Halfway houses were generally not an entrepreneurial enterprise, but a means for persons with a common desire for sobriety to support one another. Sometimes an individual simply owned a home and opened it up to others with who they had been in recovery with, and it became a landlord-tenant relationship.  In the past, there had been concerns from neighborhoods that had seen strangers in their area, more traffic in and out of the houses, and a general feeling of uncertainty.

Currently, our service is limited to a men’s facility.  However, our long-range goal is to create women’s facility that reflects the same philosophy and care that will guide women back into our communities, and again provide a strong foundation of self-interest resulting in a desire to achieve a higher standard of living.

Corpus Christi SafePlace House, lnc., dba The Wenholz House and The Wenholz Women's House, is the Coastal Bend’s largest nonprofit organization serving individuals who are in recovery from drug and alcohol addictions. We provide safe, rehabilitative transitional housing and support services to many men and Women so that they may regain and imaintain stability, reenter the workforce, and live clean and sober lives free of addiction. Residents receive guidance from live-in staff and pay affordable rents as they rebuild their lives and reenter the workforce as productive citizens.

Substance Abuse Recovery House

The Wenholz House is already providing housing and living quarters for individuals that posses a strong desire for reintegration into our local community.  Historically, with substance abuse recovery, people who were in recovery felt the need to stay with one another to offer support, stay sober, and continue working on their program. Halfway houses had been the “patient's” way of seeking aftercare, which had never been a part of treatment program. Halfway houses were generally not an entrepreneurial enterprise, but a means for persons with a common desire for sobriety to support one another. Sometimes an individual simply owned a home and opened it up to others with who they had been in recovery with, and it became a landlord-tenant relationship.  In the past, there had been concerns from neighborhoods that had seen strangers in their area, more traffic in and out of the houses, and a general feeling of uncertainty. 

Currently, our service is limited to a men’s facility.  However, our long-range goal is to create women’s facility that reflects the same philosophy and care that will guide women back into our communities, and again provide a strong foundation of self-interest resulting in a desire to achieve a higher standard of living.

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