The Launch Pad is a 12-step-based sober-living community for women dealing with addiction to alcohol or drugs. Residents can live at Launch Pad for up to 18 months, during which time they participate in 12-step meetings, group therapy and get life-skills coaching. “We are dedicated to providing a safe place for our residents to focus on their recovery and family reunification,” says Shelley Armstrong, Launch Pad’s executive director.
HISTORY
Launch Pad opened its first house on Chattanooga’s Southside in 2020, but one could say its history began in January 2002, when founder Scottie Bowman began her own recovery from addiction. She spent six months of that recovery living in a sober house and calls herself a “firm believer in sober-house living.”
In recent years, she bought the land adjacent to the original Launch Pad house, on which Chattanooga businesswoman Karen Hutton financed the building of four more Launch Pad houses. Bowman says her total out-of-pocket spend on Launch Pad is about $600,000.
SCOPE