2. MISSION:
The mission of Spirit of Women is provide comprehensive substance abuse
recovery and behavioral health services to help individuals and their
families achieve and maintain a healthy and productive lifestyle.
It is non-profit organization dedicated to providing cutting edge, best
practice treatment interventions to pregnant and parenting women who
are seeking recovery from a history of substance abuse.

3. POPULATION AT RISK
At Spirit of Women, the program deals directly with in patient and outside
patients that are women over the age of 18 years old with children.
Though the program it directly involved with women, their children of
seven years and under are allowed to stay with their mother while they
are in-patient treatment.

4. COMMUNITY CONTEXT
Spirit of Women provides services for patients from but not only excluding
Central Valley of California. Different cities that are involved with this
program are: Fresno, Clovis, Tulare, Visalia, Madera, Mendota, and
Firebaugh.
Participants in Spirit of Woman represent the cultural diversity of Fresno
County. Women seeking assistance are below 250% of the poverty
level, needing assistance with life survival skills and struggling with
substance abuse.
All the women are provided with services equally and focused on their
needs. Clients are helped with needs such as
food, rooming, expenses, while in their inpatient program

5. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The CEO and founder of Spirit of women is Audrey Riley and she has been
in this position since January of 1999. She provides leadership to 44
employees under her. She also assures that the women and children in
the program are met with their needs. Under CEO, are board of
directors. This includes three individuals. Under board of
directors, then follows the supervisor. This supervisor is incharge of all
employees. She has direct contact with employees and program’s
direction. She is also directly in charge of interns. The monitors are
women who patrol the facility and they are located at the bottom of the
ladder.

6. PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
The facility provides halfway house services to the public. The treatment
center provides outpatient and residential long-term treatment care.
There are special groups and programs for persons with co-occuring
mental and substance abuse disorders, pregnant and postpartum
women, women, and criminal justice groups.
Programs address specific issues including, Emotion (Anger) Management,
Substance Abuse & Relapse Prevention, Support Groups, Vocational
Rehabilitation Counseling, Art Therapy/Creative Writing, and Mental
Health Therapy.

7. PRACTICES

8. SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE
Spirit of Women is an agency that is located in Fresno, California that
includes many other substance abuse programs that address social
issues for this vulnerable population. They include social issues of
oppression, substance abuse, and criminal law for women.
Spirit of Women has a variety of approaches in the healing of women.
Through domestic violence, drug abuse, self care, and self-esteem,
these many approaches help educate and inspire women to better
themselves from negative pasts. In educating the community, these
approaches help women be successful within themselves. These roots
are the puzzles that help communities grow stronger and effective.

9. SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Many protocols at Spirit of Women are extremely linked with Social work
values and human rights
-Confidentiality is highly important. Many clients who are entered in
this program have rights to their records and stay at Spirit of Women.
Everything that is documented and stated in regards to client, are
confidential.
-Right to self determination at this program is mandated. Employees
must allow clients to progress with knowledge on their own.
Employees cannot be a client’s friend or back weight. Clients must use
Spirit of Women as their program and follow
schedules, regulations, and rules, in order to succeed in their recovery.
- At Spirit of Women, employees and clients cannot judge one another
based on their past. All women there are treated with respect and
dignity regardless of any past history outside of Spirit of Women. All
women are equal with support, care, and best intentions.

10. CONT’D
As social workers, must provide
Providing and promoting access to different resources that include
academic, social, substance abuse that are concerned with each client’s
needs
Ensure that all clients have an equal chance to taking full effect of program
to detox from substance abuse.
Challenge inequalities within the criminal justice or other institutions

11. FUNDING
For the last five years Spirit of Woman has applied for various grants to
upgrade its facilities. But on June 15, 2011, Executive Director Audrey
Riley got word the California Department of Housing and Community
Development had awarded them $1 million for new construction.
Riley says Spirit of Woman had proposed a plan that would provide
apartment style living for as many as 60 women and their children.
Spirit of women receives Perinatal State General Funds, Perinatal Drug
Medi-Cal funds, or federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Block Grant funds that are set-aside specifically for treatment services
for women and their children.

12. REFERENCES
Social Workers- http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm
Publicly Funded- http://www.adp.ca.gov/pdf/per_dir.pdf