Everyone is welcome! Friends, Neighbors, Supporters you’re all invited.We want to thank the entire community for all of the Love, support and encouragement that you have demonstrated to the women working and volunteering at the Creperie.
Come and tour the Creperie & Coffee Co. and join us for refreshments and fellowship at 36 – 2 Ave. SE, High River, AB
In order to house, feed, coach, counsel and provide 24 hour supervision at the NARROW ROAD HOME recovery House, costs close to $4000 per month per woman. These costs are impossible for the majority of our clients and their families to afford. We NEVER want to turn anyone away due to a lack of finances.
With much gratitude, The CREPERIE along with some loving donations from our supporters allows these courageous women to walk through a door to freedom!
Please come out and hear from some of the women of NARROW ROAD how all of this has been made possible.
For more information call 403-710-0744 or email Kim.
INFORMATION NIGHT / OPEN HOUSE Thursday, November 22, 2018 6:30 – 8:30 pm We would love to share our experiences and our story by hosting an Information Night! We are going to host the event at the Creperie. It will be a public open house for all those who want to learn more about who …
Why do we use killer substances to numb? What’s hell to others is Heaven to some. Because for one more hour my heart doesn’t hurt, until sickness starts and I can’t discern. No one understands the bugs that I feel, skin stretched raw this wasn’t part of the deal. I swear it’s me mom, help I’m inside,It’s the demon that stole, cheated and lied!But consequences happen from free will he entrusted, God please this is too much my soul shattered and busted. Quickly heaven turns hell and there’s no sign of my heart, only a shell of a person Satan can be so smart. But Remember hope is a powerful tool, God can heal anyone even one who’s been a fool. So with your last fighting will never deny get down on your knees surrender everything you own… Emotions, environment, people, possessions,it’s already know. Choose life God and love too for Satan creeps in and destroys the you you knew. – Jessica Harris
As previously reported, Narrow Road Home operates as a place of spiritual healing, acceptance and empowerment for women who require assistance through interventions and life crises.
Engbrecht, who is the executive director, said staff witness lives being touched and help received on a daily basis.
Representatives remain humbled the house was selected as recipient in 2016.
“It’s a long journey and many women do need financial help along the way, who don’t have family or any personal supports in their lives to keep going,” she told the Times.
It’s a very expensive operation keeping women going and housing them, funding them, and making sure there’s lots of supervision and lots of programming for them,” she told the Times Engbrecht said her vision is the cycle of giving continues and that it’s contagious and further instilled in the clients seeking help at the Narrow Road Home.
As previously reported, Narrow Road Home operates as a place of spiritual healing, acceptance and empowerment for women who require assistance through interventions and life crises. Engbrecht, who is the executive director, said staff witness lives being touched and help received on a daily basis. Representatives remain humbled the house was selected as recipient in …
Calgary, AB – The Calgary chapter of an international volunteer service organization, Soroptimist International, celebrated its award recipients last night at a banquet at the Delta Hotels Calgary Downtown.
Members of Soroptimist International of Calgary honoured Kimberley Engbrecht as the 2017 winner of the Making a Difference for Women Award. This award recognizes a woman who, through her professional or personal efforts, is making an extraordinary difference in the lives of women or girls.
Kimberley is a mother to six children and Executive Director of Narrow Road Home, a women’s recovery center in High River. It offers individualized recovery and healing programs for women who find themselves in unfortunate life crises and need professional support and recovery.
Kimberley founded Narrow Road Home two and a half years ago. In that time approximately 75 women and their families have come through the program. Narrow Road Home accepts women regardless of race, religion, lifestyle or financial status – no one is turned away. Kimberley says: “A transformed life is achievable no matter how far down you think you have fallen. The light is not gone and it will penetrate the darkness if you reach out and take the hand of those who have gone before you.”
I am very honoured and humbled to receive this “Making a Difference for Women” award,” said Kimberley. “This award is for the amazing staff at the house working together as a team in doing God’s work. All of the women in the program are a constant inspiration. This is why I do what I do everyday. These women are my heroes and true overcomers!
SI Calgary also issued its Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women, monetary awards granted to women who are the sole financial support for their family and are enrolled in post-secondary education. Three local women received Live Your Dream awards, one in the amount of $4,000 and two in the amount of $2,000. Unlike most scholarships and bursaries, the grants are not tied to tuition – the women can use their discretion to spend the money where needed, whether books, tuition, child care or household expenses.
“Soroptimists strongly believe that education is the key to ensuring women’s financial independence, self-esteem, health and equality,” said Angela Bunting, president of SI Calgary. “The Live Your Dream Awards is Soroptimist’s signature program because the awards lead directly to women’s social and economic empowerment, our overarching goals. When single mothers receive the training they need to start their careers, they not only gain the ability to support their families, they become role models for their children and leaders in the community.”
In addition to issuing its awards, SI Calgary works to improve the lives of girls and women through its programs, including an annual conference for girls called “Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls” and by funding local and international agencies that share its objectives. SI Calgary was established in Calgary in 1934 and is part of an international network of similar clubs, comprised of almost 80,000 women in over 120 countries and territories.
Contact: Soroptimist International of Calgary Angela Bunting, President
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An Alberta woman with a fair share of trouble behind her is happy that she can help other women with a recovery home that has opened in High River.
Kimberley Courtney, the founder of the Narrow Road Home Recovery House, says that she was finishing her Master’s degree in psychology when her life completely fell apart.
“I was a single mother with three kids and I really struggled with where to go and where I could go and fall apart somewhere safely.”
Kimberley Courtney founded the Narrow Road Home Recovery House in High River, which helps women who are struggling with a myriad of issues. She is this week’s Inspiring Albertan.
Three years ago, Courtney bought a historic home in High River for her to live with her three children, but the 2013 flood got in the way.
“It was a rough time for everyone,” says Courtney. “During that time, I took in some women, some young ladies that were struggling with addictions.”
Kim Courtney, Executive Director of Narrow Road Home recovery house for women was named CTV’s inspiring Albertan in Feb. Article by: Michael Franklin, CTV Calgary An Alberta woman with a fair share of trouble behind her is happy that she can help other women with a recovery home that has opened in High River. Kimberley …
The woman behind the Narrow Road Home addiction’s program in High River went before town council Monday to bring the town up to date on what’s been happening.
Kim Engbrecht says they opened the door to the original house across from Spitzee school two years ago as of December 2.
Since then she says residents have become part of the community.
“When I went through my own journey, and I remember carrying a lot of guilt and shame and worthlessness, I realized that we don’t talk a lot about the drugs and alcohol or the shopping addictions or the eating disorders, it’s about dispelling the shame and the guilt and getting to the route of why we do what we do,” Engbrecht says. “I think what it is, is we’re not afraid to say we’re all broken, and we’re not afraid to say we need help, but actually saying we want to take a step at being over-comers and using that as a weapon for good because as soon as we talk about it, it loses that veil of secrecy.”
The woman behind the Narrow Road Home addiction’s program in High River went before town council Monday to bring the town up to date on what’s been happening. Kim Engbrecht says they opened the door to the original house across from Spitzee school two years ago as of December 2. Since then she says residents …
This place is not something you would picture as a treatment centre. At 110 years old, the Victorian-style High River house looks peaceful and inviting as we pull up. Across the street, a bell rings from the neighbouring elementary school. It’s 3:10pm, and our first visit is about to begin.
We are welcomed in without knowing the stories the walls have already seen; stories of life and death, of hope and recovery. It served as a boarding house, a bed and breakfast and even a nurse’s residence at one time. Rooms that now hold the lost and the broken were spaces newborns took their first breath, and the ill or elderly their last.
Today, it’s called Narrow Road Home — and its residents refer to it as a place of healing rather than a treatment centre.
It is here that Kim Engbrecht, founder of Narrow Road Home, and Vicki Hooper, a cognitive behaviour therapist, create specialized treatments for women suffering from drug addictions, alcoholism, self-hate and mental health issues.
WRITTEN BY JUSTINA DEARDOFF AND KARINA YACEYKO – Published: 24 May 2016, The Calgary Journal This place is not something you would picture as a treatment centre. At 110 years old, the Victorian-style High River house looks peaceful and inviting as we pull up. Across the street, a bell rings from the neighbouring elementary school. …
By Kelci Nicodemus – MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST, High River Times
The Ladies Evening to Pamper fundraiser in support of the Narrow Road Home women’s transitional home located in High River was held on Feb. 27.
The event, which was hosted by Jezibel’s Studio Boutique, featured several pampering stations, such as makeup and massage as well as a silent auction. The evening raised $2,000 for Narrow Road Home.
“It just sounded like a fantastic new organization in High River,” she said. “There’s a huge need for it. They take in women suffering from addiction and depression.” – Becky Webster
Becky Webster, owner of Jezibel’s Studio Boutique, said the idea of supporting the local organization came about through word-of-mouth. Webster said she enjoys helping charities and organizations in the community. Previously, Webster held a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity in November 2014.
High River, Alberta By Kelci Nicodemus – MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST, High River Times The Ladies Evening to Pamper fundraiser in support of the Narrow Road Home women’s transitional home located in High River was held on Feb. 27. The event, which was hosted by Jezibel’s Studio Boutique, featured several pampering stations, such as makeup and massage …
A High River home that aims to be a beacon of light for women will soon be ready to open. The Narrow Road Home is holding an open house for everyone to come check out the post-flood renovations and changes.
Narrow Road Founder and life coaching consultant Kimberley Courtney says the transitional healing house has received a lot of support from the community.
“We had a unanimous decision that this could move forward and be rezoned as a residential care facility and just really the letters that have poured in from the people of High River and Okotoks and all in the surrounding Foothills saying that this is a much needed home. This is a place of healing and it really reflects where High River is going.”
Courtney bought the home last year before the flood with the vision of creating a place that could help set women free from the high pressures of life and allow them to press the reset button. She says that the home is not a detox or a rehab facility but it’s something else that many women need.
“It’s often for women who are coming post-treatment or just that need a transitional living place or time. Where they can go if things are not going well at home with their marriages or families but they just need an opportunity to sort of get off of the highway of life and kind of come onto the narrow road, so to speak and spend some time working with women and our staff walking with them through a process of healing.”
The open house takes place on Sunday November 2 from 1 to 4 pm. Courtney says it is a chance for people to walk through the home and get a feel for what the facility is all about.
“This is more for the community and supporters and everyone who just wants to come and see the house and see the changes and some of the renovations and have a feeling for how the house is gonna flow for the women that will be crossing the threshold in a month’s time.”
From Okotokes Online A High River home that aims to be a beacon of light for women will soon be ready to open. The Narrow Road Home is holding an open house for everyone to come check out the post-flood renovations and changes. Narrow Road Founder and life coaching consultant Kimberley Courtney says the transitional …
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The effectiveness of rehab drug or residential substance abuse treatment for women was examined using data from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Residential Women and Children/Pregnant and Postpartum Women (RWC/PPW) Cross-Site Study and two other recent national studies.
Private Residential Treatment Centers success was defined as post treatment abstinence from further drug or alcohol use, measured through in-person follow-up interviews conducted 6-12 months after each client’s discharge. Despite differences in rehab drug treatment programs, client profiles, follow-up intervals, data collection methods, and other factors, all three studies found high treatment success rates–ranging narrowly from 68% to 71% abstinent–among women who spent six months or more in treatment. Success rates were lower, and between-study differences were larger, for clients with shorter stays in treatment.
Controlling for salient client and treatment project characteristics, strong associations between length of stay in treatment and post treatment abstinence rate were found in all three studies, suggesting that women’s length of stay in Rehab Drug or Private Residential Treatment Centers is a major determinant of treatment effectiveness. In further analysis of RWC/PPW data, treatment completion was also found to be an important outcome factor.
Among clients who remained in treatment for at least three months, those who achieved their treatment goals in three to five months abstinence outcomes were as good as those for clients who took more than six months to complete their treatment (76%-78% abstinent) and substantially better than those for clients who did not complete treatment (51%-52% abstinent). Notably, however, most of the RWC/PPW clients who successfully completed Private Residential Treatment Centers (71%) required six months or more to do so.
Residential Treatment Center’s Success The effectiveness of rehab drug or residential substance abuse treatment for women was examined using data from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Residential Women and Children/Pregnant and Postpartum Women (RWC/PPW) Cross-Site Study and two other recent national studies. Private Residential Treatment Centers success was defined as post treatment abstinence from …
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Narrow Road Home has been successfully supporting and helping women in crisis since 2014. Our community is key to our on-going success. Find out how you can get involved.
Visit the Narrow Road Creperie in High River for coffee and crepes. It was created for women in our community to work, learn new life skills and transition back into society.
Visit our online store. When you purchase something from our store 100% of the proceeds go towards our mission to help women in crisis.
(403) 710-0744
kim@narrowroadhome.com