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Physical therapy, exercise, nutrition, dance, and time outdoors. Residents arrive depleted and leave physically restored.
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Long-term recovery, rebuilt from the ground up
Recovery isn't 30 days. It's a life — and it has to be rebuilt.
Stop re-cycling through 30 days. Start building a life. Because getting clean and sober and learning to live are not the same thing. New Freedom Village is a 1–2 year sober living community that treats addiction as a disease of body, mind, and spirit — and rebuilds the whole person.
The problemRehab after rehab.
Rehab after rehab.
Still not sober.
Most 30-day rehabs are built on behavior modification — and it simply isn't working. People complete a program, leave, and within weeks have picked up again.
The illness is progressive. Every relapse makes it worse than the time before. People cycle through program after program, and the disease keeps gaining ground.
The answer is not another 30 days. The answer is a whole new lifestyle — and a lifestyle takes time to build.
No more going back to rehab. A new way to live, for good.
Many individuals enter treatment multiple times before achieving long-term recovery. Traditional treatment often provides stabilization, but lasting recovery usually requires ongoing support, community, accountability, and purpose.New Freedom Village is designed to bridge that gap.
A three-part illnessWe don't rebuild lives for people.
We don't rebuild lives for people.
We rebuild them with people.
Traditional treatment programs often provide a safe place to stabilize, along with valuable education and new coping skills. Those services are important — but they are only the beginning of the journey.
Years ago, a mentor shared a lesson that has stayed with us:
"If I tell you how to do something, you'll forget. If I show you how to do it, you might remember. But if I allow you to do it yourself, you'll never forget."
That philosophy is at the heart of New Freedom Village. We don't believe lasting recovery comes from someone else rebuilding your life. We believe it comes from discovering that you can rebuild it — with guidance, support, accountability, and hope.
Our staff and mentors lead by example, but our residents do the work. Together we build healthy routines, meaningful relationships, practical life skills, spiritual growth, and a future worth protecting. We build with people, not for them, and never at them.
As each success is earned, something remarkable begins to grow: confidence, hope, responsibility — and eventually a new kind of faith. Not faith based on what someone else promised, but faith born from personal experience. The faith that says, "I've made it through before. I can make it through again."
That kind of faith doesn't disappear when life gets difficult. It becomes a foundation that carries a person through both life's greatest challenges and its greatest blessings. At New Freedom Village, recovery isn't something we give to someone — it is something they discover within themselves, and we have the privilege of walking beside them every step of the way.
Body. Mind. Spirit.
We rebuild all three, in parallel, every day, for one to two years.
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Mind
Step work with a sponsor, Big Book and 12 & 12 study, peer-support classes on codependency, parenting, and finance literacy, job-skills training, and referrals to licensed outside counselors when residents need clinical care.
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Spirit
The 12 Steps as a way of life, prayer and meditation, God in the arts — music, painting, pottery, writing — equine and animal therapy, and daily acts of altruistic service.
The spine of the program
Rooted in the 12 Steps.
Everything else we do — the apartments, the art, the job training, the horses — is built around a 12-step way of life. The Steps are not a class. They are the daily practice that holds the whole program together.
A sponsor from day one
Every resident is matched with a sponsor early in their stay. The relationship — not a curriculum — carries the step work.
Step work at a real pace
Residents work the 12 Steps with their sponsor at the pace recovery actually requires — slow enough to land, long enough to change a life.
Big Book & 12 & 12 study
Regular group study of the Big Book and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions — the literature that built the fellowship.
Daily meetings
Recovery-fellowship meetings every day, inside and outside the house. Meetings are non-negotiable, not optional.
Service as Step 12
Required, ongoing service — chairing meetings, setting up chairs, working with newcomers. You keep what you have by giving it away.
Sponsoring the next person
By the second year, residents are sponsoring newcomers themselves — the most reliable predictor of long-term sobriety we know.
The 12 Steps have kept people sober for nearly a century. New Freedom Village does not replace that — it surrounds it. We give residents the time, the housing, the community, and the structure to actually live the Steps until they become the way they live.
More than sober living
A community drawing the map for a whole new way of life.
We are not just a place to stay sober. We are a community of people helping each other design the directions for a different life — together.
Unity
Nobody gets sober alone. We move as a fellowship — meals, meetings, step work, service. Belonging is the medicine.
Purpose
Relieved of the obsession to use, residents find a new reason to be here: helping the next addict who is still suffering. Purpose is what keeps people sober.
Retraining the brain
New routines, new responses, new beliefs. Repetition over months and years rewires the patterns that drove the using.
Self-esteem
Built by doing estimable things — working the Steps, keeping commitments, helping the next person. Confidence is earned in action, never in talk.
Accountability
We answer to each other. Show up, tell the truth, do what you said you'd do — and let someone notice when you don't.
Responsibility
Adult life — work, money, commitments, relationships — practiced in a safe place until it becomes who you are.
A home, not a hospital
A beautiful place to live — and become an adult again.
Each resident has their own small apartment with a mini kitchen and a roommate. We share meals together, and residents learn to cook for themselves. The first two weeks are a quiet blackout period — no phones, no outside noise — so we can get to know each other and the rhythm of the community can begin.
- Private apartments with a mini kitchen
- Two-week intake & assessment blackout
- Job placement, training, or return-to-work
- 12-step work with a sponsor
- Required service: every resident gives back
- Rent stipend with 10% saved automatically for graduation
What we're offering
A place to live differently — long enough for it to stick.
Six things every resident does, every day, for one to two years. This is the program.
Live in a recovery environment
A home built around sobriety — routines, accountability, and people on the same path, every day.
Learn job skills
Training, placement, and the habits of work — so residents leave employable and self-supporting.
Rebuild family relationships
Honest repair work with the people addiction hurt — patience, amends, and new patterns over time.
Practice service work
Required, ongoing service inside and outside the house. You stay sober by helping the next person.
Stay connected to a recovery fellowship
Meetings, sponsors, step work, and the wider recovery community — not a phase, a way of life.
Develop a new way of life
Body, mind, and spirit rebuilt in parallel until the old life no longer fits and the new one does.
Who is leading this
35+ years in leadership. 28 years sober. A lifetime of service.
New Freedom Village is founded by Margie Rose — a long-tenured business leader with nearly three decades of continuous service inside the recovery community. The same person funders are backing has been doing this work, in some form, for 28 years.
Invited to the U.S. Senate (2024)
Invited to speak before the Senate on business taxes — recognized as a voice for working business owners.
White House honoree (2025)
Selected as one of the country's top business leaders and invited to the White House for a two-day recognition.
Athena Award & Women in Business Award
Honored for leadership, mentorship, and the advancement of women in business.
Jefferson Award nominee — Sara's Second Chance
Founded a program that trained adults caught in generational addiction and unemployment in retail and online sales, then placed them in jobs.
State Chair — 2026 SC State Convention
State Chair of the 2026 South Carolina State Convention — organizing and training a team of more than 200 volunteers.
Host State Chair — International Women's Conference
Selected separately as Host State Chair for the International Women's Conference — a national-scale event coordinating logistics and hospitality for attendees from across the country.
Arc House (1999–2004)
Worked with women serving their time at the Arc House halfway house, teaching the basics of the Big Book.
A note from the founder
I know this program works — because I lived the absence of it.
Margie Rose · Founder
Addiction is a generational disease, and it found me. I tried rehab after rehab. Nothing worked. I had reached a place where I could no longer make decisions for myself, and I believed I was one of those hopeless people who would never get sober.
On September 28, 1997, that changed. I have been sober ever since — 28 years of recovery and continuous service inside rehabs, halfway houses, and the broader recovery community.
After 28 years, I know clearly what works and what does not. A 30-day behavior-modification program does not heal a disease of body, mind, and spirit. It takes time. It takes community. It takes another addict who has been there. New Freedom Village is the program I know will work — it is everything I wish had existed for me.
Our first home
A 1906 church on the busiest corner of downtown Clarksburg.
We own it. The first New Freedom Village is a historic brick-and-stone church built in 1906 — four floors, on the corner of S. Chestnut and W. Pike in downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia. We are renovating it into a 50-bed long-term recovery community.
The building is purchased and in our hands. Now the work is renovation — and then the first cohort of residents walking through the door.
The property at a glance
- Address
- 114 S Chestnut Street, Clarksburg, WV 26301
- Built
- 1906
- Floors
- 4
- Living space
- 12,000 sq ft
- Lot
- 7,000 sq ft (75.5 × 92.4)
- Construction
- Brick & stone
- Heating
- Forced air
- Roof
- Rubber & shingle
- Lot features
- Corner, level
- Utilities
- City water & sewer, 200+ amp service
- Current use
- Church
- Status
- Purchased & owned by New Freedom Village
Where we are
- 01Church purchased. ✓ The building is ours.
- 02Nonprofit established. ✓ WV certificate of business and 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in hand.
- 03Fundraising & renovation — now. Converting the four floors into 50 beds of long-term sober living.
- 04Doors open. First cohort of residents moves in.
The campaign
Our $750,000 campaign to open New Freedom Village.
A clear, honest picture of what it takes to turn a 1906 church into a home for men in long-term recovery — and to welcome our first residents through the door.
Complete ✓
The building is ours
The historic 1906 church at 114 S Chestnut Street in downtown Clarksburg has been purchased by New Freedom Village.
$250,000 – $400,000
Renovate into a home
Convert the four floors into a safe, welcoming, code-compliant 50-bed long-term recovery community.
$120,000
Welcome our first residents
Everything needed to turn the building into a home: furniture, bedding, kitchen, clothing, and food for our first cohort.
Reserve
A cushion for the unexpected
A modest reserve for cost overruns and our first months of operation before per-resident sponsorships stabilize.
Total campaign goal
$750,000
Every gift — large or small — brings a man one step closer to freedom.
Ways to give
Every gift becomes something tangible.
Pick a level that feels right. Every dollar turns into food on the table, a bed to sleep in, or a fresh start for a new resident.
$50
Stock the pantry
Groceries and household basics for the house.
Give $50 →$150
Welcome kit for a new resident
Sheets, towels, toiletries, and a Bible for someone walking through the door for the first time.
Give $150 →$500
Furnish a bedroom
Bed, dresser, lamp, and nightstand — a private space to begin again.
Give $500 →$1,800
Sponsor a new resident
Housing, meals, and recovery programming for someone rebuilding their life with us.
Give $1,800 →Give online
Make a donation
Secure online giving through Square — one-time or any amount. Every gift goes directly toward opening our doors.
Donate securely →Give in-kind
Shop our wish list
Prefer to send something tangible? Our Amazon Wish List has the bedding, kitchenware, and supplies we need most — shipped straight to the house.
Wish list — coming soon
Scan to give
Donate from your phone
Point your camera at the QR code to open our secure Square donation page. Great for printed flyers, bulletin inserts, and in-person events.
Download QR code →Prefer to give by check or talk with us directly? Email margie@newfreedomvillage.org.
Why Clarksburg
Not a pin on a map. A place chosen on purpose.
North-central West Virginia is one of the hardest-hit corners of the overdose crisis in the country — and it is dramatically underserved for long-term recovery beds. Clarksburg is where the need, the building, and the founder all line up.
The need is here
West Virginia has among the highest overdose death rates in the United States, and north-central WV is critically short on long-term recovery housing. Most options stop at 30 days. We're building for 1–2 years.
The crossroads of the region
Clarksburg sits at the I-79 and US-50 junction — accessible from Morgantown, Fairmont, Bridgeport, Parkersburg, and beyond. One campus can serve the whole region.
A rare building — already ours
A four-story, 1906 brick-and-stone church on a downtown corner, walkable to courts, services, and transit. We own it outright. Inventory like this does not come up twice.
A downtown on its way back
Clarksburg's downtown is in active revitalization, with a local recovery ecosystem of meetings, fellowships, and providers to partner with from day one.
"Clarksburg isn't a pin on a map for me. I ran my store, Inspired By Angels, at the Meadowbrook Mall here for years, and the city sits right between my daughters in Morgantown and Salem. This community has my heart."
For funders & foundations
Help us open the doors.
Specifically: a 1906 brick-and-stone church on S. Chestnut Street in downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia — our first 50-bed home.
We are actively seeking grants and partners to fund housing, therapy, job training, and the first cohort of residents. Every dollar funds a person becoming an accountable, contributing adult.