WOW! That’s a grand celebration!

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Community members celebrate and show support on March 31 to the nonprofit Women of Worth (WOW) Recovery as the ribbon is cut on the first residential substance-abuse recovery center in Rabun County. Forward Rabun/Rabun County Chamber of Commerce held an official ribbon cutting and grand opening celebration. It is located at 5989 Highway 441, Lakemont, and can be reached by telephone by contacting 706-782-9761.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Community members at the March 31 grand opening and ribbon cutting of the Women of Worth (WOW) Recovery Dorm take a tour of the facility which includes a living room, group area and kitchen, among other amenities and resources. The first clients are expected to move in mid-April.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Caroline Wallis, executive director of Fight Abuse In The Home (F.A.I.T.H., Inc.), and Ashley York, Women of Worth (WOW) Recovery director, celebrate the official grand opening of the new WOW Recovery dorm located at 5989 Highway 441, Lakemont. The nonprofits have partnered in a collaborative program through grant funding called “Breaking Cycles of Abuse Together.”

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Artwork decorating the walls of the new Women of Worth (WOW) Recovery Dorm in Lakemont reveals the before-and-after of the first women’s residential substance-abuse recovery center in Rabun County and supports a faith-based approach.