Empowering Addiction Recovery
Our Approach
Vision & Values
Worldwide, addiction affects one in every five people. In purely financial terms, addiction costs more than five times as much as AIDS and twice as much as cancer. These are colossal numbers. And behind each digit, you will find heartbreaking, multigenerational stories of human suffering.
In response to the addiction epidemic, Novō Communities brings freedom to individuals, peace to families, and hope to communities by empowering local teams to create recovery communities that offer healing, wholeness, and hope.
Five core values shape everything we do:
- Integrity
- Empowerment
- Respect
- Excellence
- Community
Our Approach
Established in 2015, Novō builds on the work of Yeldall Manor, an established UK charity providing residential addiction treatment that fits the cultural, economic, and social realities of its residents.
Novō Communities centre on Christ, focus on the whole person, express grace and truth, promote freedom and responsibility, and partner widely with local organisations.
We view addiction as a whole-person problem (bio-psycho-social-spiritual) requiring a whole-person solution.
On our 24-week Therapeutic programme, residents address the past and prepare for the future, staying mainly within the security of the Novō community.
On our 12-week Transition programme, residents focus on ‘putting into practice’ learning and growth from the recovery programme, and establishing healthy relationships in the wider community.
Both programmes involve: 1-1 counselling, recovery groups, opportunities to explore the Christian faith, vocational work, training, and the benefits of living in community.
We believe that long-term recovery is achievable, whatever a person’s story or circumstance, and that the best foundation for true freedom from addiction is a living relationship with God through Jesus Christ. However, we will never impose our viewpoint upon anyone, recognising freedom of choice in faith, as in other areas. We welcome and value applications from men from all walks of life, background, ethnicity, culture, and faith.
Empowering Partnerships
With Novō’s work in Bolivia now well established, we are actively seeking to empower local teams elsewhere in the developing world to develop effective and sustainable recovery communities.
Rather than start new projects under the ‘ownership’ of Novō, we want to come alongside those called to launch or develop a recovery community as an empowering partner.
Novō offers partners mentoring, training, Beyond Addiction (our recovery programme), project reviews, prayer, and a broader sense of fellowship.
Today, our community in Bolivia operates as both a rehabilitation centre and a context for equipping recovery workers from elsewhere in the world.
Our long-term goal is to create a community of communities across the developing world whose heart and approach are a model of compassionate addiction care.
If you would like to discuss how Novō could support your recovery work, do get in touch.
Is Novō needed?
Addiction is a global epidemic. The need for residential communities where healing and restoration can take place is increasing year by year.
The developing world is experiencing rapid social change (population growth, urbanization, migration, family breakdown) and, with it, a growth in social problems such as sexual abuse, prostitution, and child neglect.
These problems leave individuals with huge deficits in terms of their sense of security, significance, and self-worth – issues to which the abuse of substances provides a temporary but ultimately enslaving solution.