Empowering women for lifetime recovery through inpatient, outpatient, and re-entry services God loves. God forgives. All women can be whole and complete.
The Next Door Recovery's operations are based on the following core values:
Wholeness
We believe that women are not defined by their past decisions. God has a plan and purpose for every woman’s life that is abundantly good. Hope
We believe hope and healing is within reach for all women. Community
We believe community is essential to sustain lifetime recovery. We are building a healthy community in which our women are contributing members of society. We need one another. We care for one another. We will teach women how to build their own healthy communities. Respect
We believe each woman deserves respect from us and from each other. Every woman can learn to respect herself and others. Encouragement
We believe that our words and actions should build one another up. We inspire one another with love and good deeds. Faith
We believe all women are made in the image and likeness of God. We welcome all people, and all will be cared for with Christ-centered principles. Love
We believe that all women are worthy of love. We demonstrate what love looks like, so our women learn to love themselves and love others in healthy ways.
12/16/2025
Welcome to the front door, the first step on the journey to recovery for the women who come to The Next Door Recovery. 🚪
Behind it, women step forward with bravery, carrying fear and hope, weariness and courage, often all at once. Walking through this door is an act of strength.
Here, they are met with safety, dignity, and unconditional compassion. This front door marks the moment a woman chooses herself, her healing, and the possibility of a new life.
This is where recovery begins.
12/15/2025
For the next 10 days, we invite you to step inside The Next Door Recovery and join us in a season of reflection and gratitude, a time to pause and remember what truly matters. 💚❤️
Each day, we will open a new door within our building. Behind every door is care, compassion, and the quiet, faithful work of recovery for the women we serve.
Come with us as we open the doors and share with you what The Next Door Recovery is all about. 🚪✨
12/12/2025
Yesterday was such a special day as we celebrated the women in our outpatient program with a Christmas party filled with joy and connection.🎄✨
From crafts and cards to sweets, clothing, a toy and games station, and gift wrapping, there was something for everyone.
Our ladies were able to choose a gift for themselves and find something special for their children or family members, making the season a little brighter. 🎁
A heartfelt thank you to , Dana Oman and her Bible Study, and .b.cook for helping make this day truly meaningful.❤️💚
12/11/2025
This week, we are excited to welcome Brenda Bogart for our Thursday Devotional! Brenda, the artist and author of The Art of Advent, generously donated 60 copies to TNDR so our clients can use them during their weekly Advent devotion Bible study in our chapel.
Today, she shares from an entry from Day 11 of her book, reflecting on Matthew 2:1–3, offering a heartfelt reminder of how Jesus forgives and lifts us up. ✝️
This holiday season, you can bring a little extra warmth to a woman’s recovery journey. Each Client Care Bundle is filled with essential items valued at $200 to provide comfort, dignity, and stability. 🎁
Each month we welcome about 100 women into our program, and this holiday season we hope to provide 200 Client Care Bundles.
So far, 59 of our 200 bundles have been sponsored and every gift helps ensure more women feel seen, supported, and cared for during this special time of year.
Sometimes it’s the little things, like new, clean clothing items, personal care essentials, or a thoughtful note, that make the biggest difference. Your support reminds these women that they are not alone.
A huge thank you to the 17 amazing HCA volunteers who joined us today! 💜
They spent the day organizing our clothing closet, hygiene closet, and library, and wrote thoughtful notes for TNDR.
Your service helps ensure every woman who walks through our doors feels seen, valued, and supported. Thank you!
12/04/2025
This week’s Thursday Devotional comes from Hansell Holt, a faithful and dedicated volunteer at The Next Door Recovery.
Hansell shares a reading from The Songs of Jesus by Timothy Keller, reminding us that we often come to God seeking what He can give instead of simply resting in His presence.
She also offers a beautiful Randy Alcorn quote about our “homesickness for heaven,” a longing we often try to satisfy with tangible things when the true gift has always been God Himself. 💛
12/03/2025
🎉 We did it! Together, we raised $21,000 for 21 years of empowering women for lifetime recovery!
Your support shows that no woman has to walk through recovery alone. Because of you, women receive life-changing substance use treatment and faith-filled care to support themselves, their families, and generations to come.
We couldn’t do this mission without YOU! Thank you for being part of this community of hope and healing and thank you for helping us hit our Giving Tuesday goal! 🙏
12/03/2025
We are close to reaching our $21,000 goal for 21 years of The Next Door Recovery. Only $6,470 to go!
In todays video, Fawn Gentry our Program Manager, and Susan Weathersby our Director of Development, share how your Giving Tuesday support is changing lives.
Your support provides addiction treatment, counseling, and care for co-occurring mental health disorders giving women, including pregnant women, the hope and tools to rebuild their lives.
If you feel led to give, you are giving a woman her first night of safety and her first moment of hope. Thank you for standing with these brave women. 💜
Today is Giving Tuesday, and we want to celebrate something truly beautiful:
21 years of women finding hope, healing, and a fresh start at The Next Door Recovery. 🎉
For every woman who has walked through our doors, there has been someone like YOU, a supporter who believes in her worth, her courage, and her future.
In honor of these 21 years, we invite you to give $21 to help another woman begin her journey. Every dollar today is MATCHED, bringing us one step closer to our $21,000 goal. 💜
Giving Tuesday is almost here and we are so excited to share that in Green Hills will host The Next Door Recovery this Tuesday.
20% percent of sales from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM will support a woman’s 28 day stay at The Next Door Recovery. Every purchase will help provide a safe place to heal, counseling, community, and faith-based support for women beginning their recovery journey.
We look forward to a beautiful day of shopping and generosity that will make a true difference for the women we serve.
💜 Join us this Tuesday at Kirna Zabête!
11/27/2025
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at The Next Door Recovery! 🍂
Today we give thanks for the courageous women we serve, for God’s provision, and for the friends (like you) who make this ministry possible.
Our dining hall is extra warm and festive today, decorated with beautiful centerpieces lovingly crafted by our incredible volunteers.
Wishing you a day filled with peace, gratitude, and connection. 💜
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In the Spring of 2002, a small group of women from First Baptist Church Nashville, calling themselves the Wild Group of Praying Women, were interested in the use of a vacant building in downtown Nashville. They began meeting to discuss and pray about ways to use this building to serve the less fortunate. A community survey of over thirty government and private agencies revealed that one of the largest unmet needs in Middle Tennessee was in the area of transitional housing and services for women ex-offenders.
Discussions with the landlord of the building led to an agreement to lease the facility to the newly formed agency, which was formally incorporated as the Downtown Ministry Center on March 4, 2003. By November 2003, the agency had received tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code.
Founders designed a Residential Transitional Program to address the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of women coming from incarceration. The nonprofit came to be known as “The Next Door” after organizers met with a local warden. He explained that when a woman had paid her dues to society and was ready for release, she would come to “ROLL UP ONE” – a huge, intimidating door that literally rolled open to allow her to walk out to freedom. All too often, the heartbreaking story then followed the same pattern. Too many women went directly back to old neighborhoods, so called “friends”, and addiction, and then returned to incarceration within months, if not weeks. The warden said, “It’s called recidivism.”
The heart of the founders’ work came together in that moment. We would pick women up at “Roll Up One” and offer them “The Next Door” to a new home, real friends, and the opportunity to experience a fresh start. “The Next Door” would offer women HOPE!
In November 2006 the legal name of the organization was officially changed to The Next Door, Inc.
At its new, state-of-the-art facility off of Charlotte Ave. in Nashville, The Next Door provides services to women who are impacted by addiction, mental illness, trauma and/or incarceration. In recognition of the common need among residents for mental health and addiction counseling, The Next Door provides an integrated model to address the co-occurring disorders. A professional team of counselors, case managers, nurse practitioners, masters level social work interns, mentors, and job coaches complete the staff to provide comprehensive coverage to residents’ needs. Services provided include Medically Monitored Detoxification, Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Partial Hospitalization Programs, Intensive Outpatient Programs, Outpatient Programs and Family Services.
