lydia’s home

Lydia's Home is a residential recovery program for women located in the City of Green. Established in 2017, Lydia’s Home provides a mentored, curriculum-based, faith-centered recovery program for women in a safe home environment.

As a unique six-bed recovery residence for women, Lydia’s Home has been a successful example of Restorative Justice and community collaboration for seven years. Based upon our successful Restorative Justice programs, Lydia’s Home helps women successfully address physical and spiritual barriers to recovery and independence.

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“When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.”
— Acts 16:15

Program Pillars

  • Formalized substance abuse recovery program.

  • 60-day curriculum-based Life Formation Study Series.

  • Identity restoration

  • Financial literacy training.

  • Payment of fines, restitution, and court costs.

  • Workforce readiness and GED preparedness.

our directoR

 

Tamela Shawhan, Director of Operations, Ohio Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist, Residential Supervisor

 

PODCAST APPEARANCE

Tamela Shawhan appeared on Beyond the Pew in May 2024 to talk about Lydia’s Home.

Our Staff

Suzanne Parsons, Residential Supervisor, Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant (CDCA), Medical Assistant

Cyndi Moore, Residential Supervisor

PHOTO GALLERY

Illicit drug crisis news

The Fentanyl Crisis in Ohio, 2023

Fentanyl was involved in 81% of overdose deaths in Ohio in 2020, often in drug combinations. That same year, fentanyl-related deaths increased by 32%. Between May and September 2022, the DEA and its law enforcement partners seized 4.7 million deadly doses (Justice.gov, 2022). 

The county spent $2 million on emergency-room programs aimed at treating addiction, after Summit County logged more than 1,000 overdose visits in 2020, according to Summit County Public Health data.

The top drugs abused in Summit County are fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

New data: fatal overdoses leapt 22% in Ohio last year, Ohio Capital Journal, July 2021

At least 5,215 Ohioans fatally overdosed on drugs in 2020 according to new government data, a nearly 22% increase over 2019 numbers.

Pandemic Year Likely Deadliest One Ever For Drug Overdoses In Ohio, WYSO, July 2021

2020 was likely to have been the deadliest year for drug overdoses ever in Ohio according to a projection from the CDC. Ohio is projected to report 5,215 drug deaths that year, more than 14 Ohioans a day – breaking the record set with 4,854 deaths in 2017. That’s almost a 22% increase from the CDC’s 2019 Ohio number, and the fourth largest total among all states.

national illicit drug Crisis news

Drug Overdoses Killed A Record Number Of Americans In 2020, Jumping By Nearly 30%, NPR, July 2021

More than 93,000 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. in 2020 — a record number that reflects a rise of nearly 30% from 2019, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Officials said the increase was driven by the lethal prevalence of fentanyl as well as pandemic-related stressors and problems in accessing care. This is the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period, and the largest increase since at least 1999.

Drug Overdose Deaths Spike, New York Times, July 2021

As COVID raged, so did the country’s other epidemic. Drug overdose deaths rose nearly 30 percent in 2020 to a record 93,000, according to preliminary statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s the largest single-year increase recorded. Several grim records were set: the most drug overdose deaths in a year; the most deaths from opioid overdoses; the most overdose deaths from stimulants like methamphetamine; the most deaths from the deadly class of synthetic opioids known as fentanyl.

U.S. Drug-Overdose Deaths Soared Nearly 30% in 2020, Driven by Synthetic Opioids, Wall Street Journal, July 2021

Drug-overdose deaths in the U.S. surged nearly 30% in 2020, the result of a deadlier supply and the destabilizing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to preliminary federal data and public health officials. The estimated 93,331 deaths from drug overdoses last year, a record high, represent the sharpest annual increase in at least three decades, and compare with an estimated toll of 72,151 deaths in 2019, according to provisional overdose-drug data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Drug overdose deaths in 2020 hit highest number ever recorded, CDC data shows, CNN, July 2021