Our Story

  Our story begins in 2008, when building golf course communities basically ground to a halt. Josh and Doug re-invented themselves and took jobs at a local non-profit mental health care facility in the area. Providing long-term in-home care ourselves for people with mental illnesses began in 2009 with a resident that was having difficulty fitting into a group setting. Over the course of time more and more people needed more individualized care and we morphed into providing that care and expanded our properties and services (transportation, short term care, etc.)  In 2009 we began caring for residents but were not incorporated. We filed for an LLC, November 2019 and are funded by private pay from resident's families. In November 2022 we formed a 501(c)3 in order to request grants to support the program and allow families to make tax deductible donations. 

We strive to address the gap between intensive treatment and complete independent living. We provide an individualized, community based, long-term living environment for people in various stages of their mental health journey. Our services are flexible and range from 24/7 staff supervised living to semi-independent living, based on an evaluation of needs by our team of experienced directors, staff, therapists, trainers, doctors and information provided by families. A large differentiator is our staff to resident ratio, which is generally 1:1 or 1:2 including overnight, based on a residents need.

At Home Next Door now accommodates a maximum of 11 people where care and staffing are tailored to the unique needs of each resident. The amount of staffing can go up or down on a monthly basis depending on the situation. We also have access to professional staffing services if we need to fill in short-notice gaps in staffing.

 The program is set up to forego state supervision or involvement, which is accomplished by limiting the number of residents to a maximum of two per household (a North Carolina requirement) with a live-in house advisor. In some cases, we do have residents living alone on properties under the program's supervision. This model speeds up our ability to admit residents into the program. The Program uses multiple houses, both purchased or rented, in order to expand our services to accommodate additional residents.  Creating a program in this fashion makes it easier to house people faster and get them the care they need and deserve. This model can be easily recreated in most communities across the country, and we have research on what it takes based on each state's laws to accomplish this.  

Our goal is to let every resident have as normal an everyday life as possible.