About Us

Marlene Harris

Reddoor Rehabilitation was founded in 2003.

The development of this company came many years before the maturity of Reddoor Rehabilitation Inc. My love for the Social Work field began in 1976 when I did volunteer work for ten years with foster children from the Indian Placement Program out of the L.D.S. Social Service Agency in Boise, Idaho. I had a caseload of about five students yearly and would assist the foster parents with Native American Indian cultural differences. I loved the work and chose to finish my bachelor’s Degree in Social Work at Boise State University and finished with a Social Science degree with an emphasis in Psychology.

At Boise State, I served as club president of the H.O.M.E (Helping Our Selves More Emotionally) and Native American President, I oversaw and developed the H.O.M.E group program for three years while completing my degree. After completing my degree, I participated in group marriage retreats under the direction of Dr. James L. Christensen at Alta, Wyoming (near the Grand Teton Mountains) for ten years.

While living in eastern Idaho I was hired and learned how to teach in the Psychosocial Rehabilitation field for 4 years I worked in the PSR services. I eventually developed Reddoor Rehabilitation Inc. My Native American background was not a positive quality in creating and developing my own company due to historical reasons.

I learned from the past about the “Native American Medicine Wheel” that life flows in 4 directions. I began the process in the direction of “introspection”, and began to dream of a program that would help the Native American people to view life from a different perspective.

I have come through many adversities in my life and now understand those setbacks have been teachers and that I could break the chains of hopelessness, alcoholism, and family dysfunction. The dream of developing a business where people begin to realize their potential grew within me. I began to see how important it is to help people to discover their individual and infinite worth.

Reddoor or (Indian Ta-o-pa-sh`aw) became a company in March 2003. “Reddoor” is my maiden name which came from my father. He was an Assiniboine Indian from Montana, Fort Peck Indian reservation that died from the use of alcohol. I named the company after him to honor him and respect him for what he left me. He left me my heritage and figt of courage, integrity and to respect of education adnt o love people. Because of my father’s alcoholism he never really had a chance to grow and become the true leader and human being he was meant to be.

Red-door symbolizes a door of growth that will open many other doors and I know those wounded souls who enter our door will begin to heal their lives.

~Marlene Reddor Harris~