In Development — Green Bay, WI
Hope Becomes Home
Restoring Hope Community Homes is a proposed faith-based recovery housing ministry where women can find stability, belonging, excellent support, and room to build a hopeful life. Residents will be met where they are — faith available and encouraged, never forced.
In development
Restoring Hope Community Homes is currently in the planning, partnership, fundraising, property-evaluation, and leadership-development stage. The first home is not yet open and is not currently accepting resident applications.
This notice will remain visible until the board formally approves opening and admissions.
Recovery is about more than avoiding substances. It involves rebuilding safety, health, relationships, purpose, confidence, employment, community, and hope. Restoring Hope Community Homes is being designed as a high-care, community-backed recovery residence. The first home is planned for women, with the possibility of developing a men’s home in a later phase after the first model is stable, evaluated, and sustainable. The home will be peer-informed and community-oriented, with oversight from qualified recovery-housing, clinical, biblical-counseling, pastoral, health, safety, and nonprofit professionals.
See the Resident Experience & Signature Pathways →Distinctives
What Makes the Home Different
Faith is invited, never weaponized
The ministry is centered on the message and person of Jesus Christ. Residents may pray, participate, listen, question, or decline. Housing, care, privileges, and belonging will not be conditioned on religious performance. Church partners unite around the core message of Christ rather than secondary doctrinal disputes.
Peer leadership with professional boundaries
People with lived recovery experience help shape the home’s culture, programming, resident leadership, and alumni community. Peers are respected as trained professionals — never expected to diagnose, provide psychotherapy, act as security staff, or work beyond their credentials and assigned roles.
The body matters
Sleep, nutrition, movement, medication access, physical health, and a calm living environment are part of recovery capital. The home expects dignified bedrooms and strong sleep-support practices, YMCA memberships, walking and strength groups, cooking and food-safety education, a community garden, and appropriate medical referrals.
Community is part of the model
Residents should not be isolated from the community while preparing to return to it. Churches, employers, educators, recovery professionals, health providers, neighbors, nonprofits, parks, libraries, arts organizations, and community groups help create pathways toward belonging and meaningful participation.
Meaningful careers — not disposable jobs
Restoring Hope Ministries intends to develop meaningful careers with fair compensation, supervision, training, benefits, healthy boundaries, and opportunities to grow. Interns, volunteers, residents, and ministry leaders will not be used to cover positions that should be filled by trained, compensated employees.
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Ways to Participate
More than a building — a community of people willing to serve responsibly, give sustainably, share expertise, and protect resident dignity.
Christ-Centered & Resident-Honoring
Every person is made in the image of God and possesses inherent dignity. Residents will never be reduced to a diagnosis, relapse, criminal history, financial condition, family circumstance, or level of church involvement.
Read the full faith & resident-rights statement →The Proposed Facility
What the Home Is Being Designed to Provide
A proposed physical environment intentionally shaped to support whole-life recovery capital. Full details — including eligibility criteria and daily-life expectations — are on the Resident Experience page.
Concept visualization of proposed future use. The home is not currently operating.
Single-family recovery residence
A home in a quiet Green Bay-area neighborhood, designed for a small number of women residents so relationships and oversight remain personal rather than institutional.
Dignified bedrooms
Private and semi-private bedrooms with supportive bedding, storage for personal belongings, and calm sleep-supportive practices — residents help shape their own space.
Community table & kitchen
A shared kitchen and dining area for cooking, budgeting, food-safety practice, meal planning, and unhurried communal hospitality without food shame.
Common living area
A comfortable living room for house meetings, relationship-building, study, rest, and peer connection — the relational heart of the home.
Quiet reflection room
A dedicated quiet space available for prayer, Scripture, journaling, telehealth counseling sessions, and private conversation. Use is always voluntary.
Garden & outdoor space
A community garden and outdoor area for stewardship, fresh air, movement, sober recreation, and rest — connected to the Nature Stewardship Corps pathway.
Safety features
Secure entry, smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors, fire-safety planning, Naloxone availability and trained staff, and clear emergency protocols.
Accessibility & dignity
Accessibility-informed design wherever feasible, accommodations requested in good faith, and a physical environment that honors resident worth.
Near community recovery capital
YMCA and walking/running routes, recovery-supportive employers, public transit, clinics, pharmacies, and counseling providers, plus parks, libraries, and community spaces for belonging.
Help Hope Become Home
Restoring Hope Community Homes will require a community of people willing to serve responsibly, give sustainably, share expertise, and protect the dignity of residents.
Care That Is Measured — Because People Are What Matter
Restoring Hope Ministries tracks the well-being of every participant in our clinical and faith-based services using empirically validated screeners, clinical interviews, behavioral analysis, and self-report — so we can honestly see whether the people we serve are getting better. This rigor reflects the training of our founder, Dr. Gross, whose clinical psychology education and practical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin prepared him for this type of organization and care.
