The Next Door (Update)

The peer support program that has become Sanctuary’s signature continues to expand, and the new center will be staffed by people who know recovery from the inside because they have lived it.

When Sanctuary Recovery Centers began in 2006, it was a single house in Phoenix with no logo and no formal company behind it, only a name, an ethos, and a door that stayed open for people who had run out of places to go. Joey Landin came through that door in 2010 as a resident, not a leader, and the years since have turned a client into a caretaker and a caretaker into a CEO. Somewhere along the way, one house became 19 locations across the Valley. The principle behind each new one has never changed: every door Sanctuary opens is another chance for someone to find hope on the other side. This fall, the organization opens its largest door yet, a 10,000 square foot treatment center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Scale is the point of the new building. Joey has spent two decades uncomfortable with the idea of someone reaching out for help and being told there is no room, and the center is his answer. Groups run in three daily sessions, 9 to 12, 1 to 4, and 5 to 8, across multiple rooms operating at the same time, with additional space already set aside for growth. At full capacity the facility can serve as many as 270 people in a single day, a number that does not include Sanctuary’s virtual IOP program or its virtual PHP program for veterans, both of which carry care to those who cannot come to a building at all. For a family making the hardest phone call of their lives, it means the answer is more likely to be yes, and sooner.

What happens inside the walls is what Joey cares about most. The peer support program that has become Sanctuary’s signature continues to expand, and the new center will be staffed by people who know recovery from the inside because they have lived it. That model, peers walking alongside peers, is the same one that kept Joey in the house long enough to build a life there, and he still believes it can change the world. Delivered without judgment and grounded in mental health and dual-diagnosis care, it is built so that one person’s healing does not end with them but reaches the family that follows, and the one after that. Twenty years in, Sanctuary is still doing what it did on the first day. It is opening the door.

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