Volunteers For Recovery

05/16/2026

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Carl Sneed, Tara Hill, Joe Moser, Brittany Brooke Bowen, Martin Long, Betty Long, Elaina Carol Quillen, Tommy Crowe

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

05/16/2026

Are you just venting?

05/14/2026

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05/11/2026

Couldn’t be said any better!

“Certified” shouldn’t be a sticker. It should mean something.

It should mean the home has been reviewed.
That standards aren’t just written, they’re followed.
That someone is actually checking.

Without consistency and oversight, the word loses its weight… and people pay the price for that.

tnarr.org

05/11/2026

There is a common misconception that faith-based recovery homes cannot or do not pursue nationally recognized recovery housing standards.

That is simply not true.

TN-ARR certification is based on operational standards, ethics, accountability, peer support, and safe recovery environments, not denomination or theology.

Faith and standards are not mutually exclusive.

05/09/2026

I just need to recognize the women of this program for a minute. Every month they “pass the basket” for themselves to take up a little collection for their monthly unity night. They get to choose what they do with it. Last month they went roller skating as an example. Today instead of them going to do something “fun” for themselves, they made hygiene kits and dog food kits. They then took those kits down to are unhoused people and their dogs under the bridge. When I got the pictures this afternoon, I wanted to shed a few tears. This is what recovery teaches us and I am so grateful that it is clearly working with these girls!

05/09/2026

In Tennessee, certification isn’t a preference. It’s a safeguard.

It protects the people living in these homes.
It protects families trying to trust the process.

Without real standards and accountability, anyone can claim to be “recovery housing” and that’s where things go sideways.

TN-ARR certification draws a clear line between safe, supportive environments… and everything else.

This isn’t about choice. It’s about protection.
tnarr.org

05/08/2026

Everybody says they want standards, but fewer people want what it takes to uphold them.

Oversight isn’t automatic.
It takes time, structure, trained reviewers, follow-up, accountability, the unglamorous stuff that actually keeps people safe.

None of that runs on good intentions.

If we want recovery housing to be more than a label, we have to support the systems that keep it real.

Standards without oversight are just words on paper.

Support the structure that supports recovery.
tnarr.org

05/06/2026

The easy way for us addicts only produces more pain and suffering. That’s why we do things the way we do at VFR. That’s why our participants don’t run the program. Successful longterm recovery is rare. We know that so we won’t change a thing. Maybe turn the heat up some…

05/06/2026

Tennessee deserves clarity when it comes to recovery housing.

TN-ARR provides the only nationally supported recovery housing certification in the state that is aligned with NARR standards and recognized across the country for safety, structure, and ethical operation.