As attendance grew, the volunteer staff quickly expanded from community volunteers to include therapists and addiction professionals, Rabbis, and mentors who would provide the necessary clinical and emotional support for the hundreds of boys who would soon become part of the Our Place family. Through the unparalleled patience, unconditional acceptance, and unbridled confidence of the Our Place staff, many of the boys slowly began to turn around their lives - entering drug rehabs and achieving sobriety, seeking therapy, re-enrolling in school, or GED programs, and successfully gaining employment. At-risk youth were slowly transitioning into sober, productive, and healthy adults. The model of unconditional love was working. Based on the initial successes of the Boys Drop-In Center, in 2003 a separate drop-in center for girls was created to assist the growing population of young females who were also taking to life on the street. Shortly thereafter, The Living Room (TLR) became the third program added to the Our Place family. Many teenagers were referred by Our Place (and other community organizations) to drug rehabilitation centers throughout the country. When they returned to the NY area, there wasn’t a culturally sensitive support system to help them maintain long-term recovery. The Living Room was founded to meet that need and quickly developed into a vibrant, 12-step based recovery community combining clinical expertise, peer support, and recreational programming. Today, The Living Room has expanded beyond its Brooklyn Headquarters to include sites in Long Island and Monsey, as well as recreational programming in South Florida. Most recently, Our Place opened its first sober living home in Rockland County, a 12-bed facility known as Our Village Sober Living.