Rock Bottom Hope gives help and hope to those who have nowhere else to turn

THE WOODLANDS, TX – A grand opening of the new facility to an established nonprofit organization recently took place on the northern edge of The Woodlands. The ceremony marked the opening of official doors of Rock Bottom Hope to the community.

Rock Bottom Hope was cofounded and is comanaged by husband-and-wife team Allesha and Danny Childress with a mission to help people at a total loss due to addiction and other maladies by providing resources and counseling. After spending ten years of his youth – from ages 14 to 24 – in the throes of alcoholism and meth addiction, Danny got sober, turning to the church to help him overcome his personal demons and give back to the congregation.

Danny, now 42 years old, sat down with Woodlands Online to discuss his history, his present, and future.

“Rock Bottom Hope is born out of my own story of addiction. I was almost on the streets, and I experienced rock bottom at a level of where I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know how to get out of it. I was all alone, scrimping, trying to straighten myself out, by myself.”

Allesha added, “We envisioned a nonprofit that works for people experiencing rock-bottom circumstances, typically addiction and crises. We get them connected to resources and counseling, and we help remove barriers to get them into detox or treatment. We develop a road map to recovery that’s individualized to that person, depending on what they need.”

Danny agreed. “After years and years in recovery, my heart was that people wouldn’t be alone when they hit rock bottom, that we could offer them relational support and let them understand that they are not alone, even when it feels like everything is falling apart and when it feels like they’ve burnt all their bridges. Our motto is ‘Love first, ask questions later,’ and that’s exactly what we want to do with Rock Bottom Hope.”

The couple, in their own words, put all of their eggs in one basket; Danny resigned his position at the church where he was pastor, and they went full course into their newly founded nonprofit. They commenced operations in January of 2020, and three months later the entire world hit rock bottom.

“We received massive amounts of calls from people wondering how they and their lives could get better. We built on that idea of being a missional resource for people at rock bottom to walk loved ones out of addiction into successful, sober lives where they can be productive members of society,” said Danny.

Though the organization has been operating for more than six years now, the site of its new facility is a first.

“We’ve always just met people where they were and tried to figure out where we could best help, but now we have this facility – our first ever – where they can come to us. And our hearts go to District Counseling of Spring and Tomball, who owns this building and who donated it to us completely free of charge for us to use any time we need it,” said Danny.

Allesha and Danny are equally concerned with the next generations of people who could fall into the traps of addiction, and take proactive steps wherever they can. Their belief in this is so strong that they even added to their own family.

“In 2018, we adopted my youngest daughter from a homeless meth addict who was sleeping in a shed while 38 weeks pregnant and eating meth with frostbitten fingers. We went to help her, and by chance nine days later we cut the umbilical cord and brought baby Chloe home. She has completed our family in the way that only she could, and that’s when my wife and I realized we wanted to do this full time,” said Danny.

Typically, people in crises are inundated with resources they don’t know or don’t know where to start. Allesha depends on the strengths of personal perseverance, family bond, and overcoming obstacles to help others.

“We enjoy a proactive, holistic approach, which enables us to frequently see the best results,” she told Woodlands Online. “My husband has walked this road and he understands it. I’m a licensed chemical dependency counselor. Together, we work with people to help navigate them through whatever they’re going through. Sometimes it’s a short process where someone needs transportation to their treatment center; more often than not, however, it’s a very long, involved process that we’re happy to go through each time. We strategize, we work together, we help answer how to get from A to B, and this is the amazing space we get to do it in.”

The mission of Rock Bottom Hope is to help individuals overcome addiction and equip their families with faith-based support, accountability, and practical resources for lasting freedom. If you – or someone you know – are in need of the organization’s services, you can call 877-423-HOPE (4673) or visit www.rockbottomhope.org.