Bridge To 100 Emergent Design
An adaptive, community-driven approach to growing faith-based recovery across North Carolina.
Growing Through Emergent Design
Bridge to 100 uses an emergent design model to grow and strengthen its network of faith-based recovery centers. Rather than a rigid, top-down plan, the network evolves adaptively — shaped by the real needs of communities, the experiences of affiliates, and the outcomes observed across programs.
As new affiliates join and existing partners deepen their work, the entire ecosystem strengthens and reaches further. This organic growth ensures that expansion is sustainable, locally relevant, and deeply rooted in the communities it serves.
Bridge to 100 Program Blueprint
Explore each part of the emergent design model to see how vision, mission, goals, and methods work together in practice.
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Program Vision North Star
Faith and science informed recovery and well-being.
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Program Mission Commitment
Freedom found in recovery earned through private and public accountability.
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Program Goals Outcomes
- Accessible health, social, and economic community supports.
- A coordinated single social and health determinant assessment.
- One primary case manager or case management team.
- One stable residential care placement.
- Recovery measured by abstinence in one year and sustainable well-being in two years.
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Program Methods How It Works
- Christian faith, devotion, and sense of community that create belonging.
- Leadership Fellows Academy curriculum for leaders as stewards of faith and science informed recovery and well-being.
- Aspire: A multidimensional social and health determinant assessment of well-being and recovery.
- Collective Impact: A faith and science informed method of collaborative problem-solving, self-evaluation, adaptive learning, and change.
Key Principles
- Community-driven growth: New affiliates emerge from local need and passion, not top-down mandates. Each center shapes its own programming while contributing to the broader network.
- Adaptive learning: The network continuously incorporates feedback from affiliates, participants, and research partners to improve care and expand reach.
- Shared best practices: Affiliates share ideas on procurement, facility design, programming, and outreach — strengthening every organization in the network.
- Faith and science integration: Evidence-informed practices complement faith-based care, creating programs that address the whole person: spiritual, mental, and physical.
Explore Faith & Science
NC Collaboratory Partnership
Strategic partnerships advancing the science behind faith-based recovery.
Read more →Evidence Informed Recovery
Grounding faith-based care in research and clinical best practices.
Read more →Future Planning
The strategic roadmap for reaching all 100 North Carolina counties.
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