Gil Ford, Founder & Executive Director of The Other Door Recovery Residences (TODRR), is living proof that recovery is not only possible but can become a powerful calling. With his sobriety journey beginning in November 2019, Gil’s path has been one of rebuilding, reflection, and service. His own experience walking through the challenges of early recovery inspired a vision: to create a place where people could rebuild their lives through structure, purpose, and peer-led accountability.

 

From that vision came The Other Door Recovery Residences, a nonprofit built around dignity, opportunity, accountability, and connection. Gil’s ‘why’ is simple yet deeply personal: no one should have to face recovery alone, and people leaving treatment or early recovery deserve practical support as they rebuild their lives. TODRR is now working to turn that vision into structured, peer-led recovery housing that combines life skills, workforce readiness, and community reintegration.

 

Gil’s leadership reflects the same principles that shaped his own recovery: honesty, humility, consistency, accountability, and service to others. TODRR is being built to carry those principles into a recovery housing model that helps men strengthen stability, independence, and long-term recovery in everyday life.