Five years after Amy Winehouse’s untimely passing, the Amy Winehouse Foundation has opened a new house to help women dealing with drug and alcohol addiction recover and reintegrate into society. Based in East London, and set up with Centra Care and Support, the recovery house is called Amy’s Place, and can lodge up to 16 women at a time, The Guardian reports. Those who reside at Amy’s Place will participate in a “‘co-production model,’ which gives them shared control over the services that aid their recovery.”
According to Dominic Ruffy, the special project director at the Amy Winehouse Foundation, there are not many female-specific recovery locations in London. He said, “There are about six women-only rehabs, and beyond that, there’s an even greater paucity of women-specific recovery housing beds. There is only one other women-only recovery house in London and it’s only a four-bed with a six-month waiting list.”
Ruffy emphasized the importance of a women-only home because “women tend to come into recovery with a host of complex issues, whether that’s physical, mental or psychological abuse.” He told The Guardian “it was evident there was a clear need and the women would feel more secure in an environment [where] they knew they weren’t going to be troubled by aspects from their past.”
Jane Winehouse, Amy’s stepmother and Managing Trustee at the Foundation said: “This project will make such a profound difference to so many young women, enabling them to have a safe environment in which to rebuild their lives and put into practice all the learning they have acquired through their treatment journey. Fresh starts are difficult to make, full of challenges, but at Amy’s Place, we will give young women the tools and support to help make this a reality.”
via Matthew Strauss
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