Restoring Hope Community Homes
A Home for Rebuilding a Life
A structured, substance-free recovery environment — not inpatient treatment, detoxification, hospitalization, or custodial care.
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.
The proposed home will provide a structured, substance-free recovery environment rather than inpatient treatment, detoxification, hospitalization, or custodial care. Residents will work with peers and qualified staff to develop individualized goals in areas such as:
Participation in spiritual activities will be voluntary. Clinical care will remain under properly licensed professionals, with informed consent and separate clinical records where required.
Programming
Proposed Signature Pathways
Resident-selected pathways that support whole-life recovery capital.
Sleep Sanctuary
A calm environment with consistent rhythms, supportive bedding, quieter overnight practices, sleep education, and referral pathways for insomnia, sleep apnea, nightmares, and medication concerns.
Community Table and Garden
Cooking, budgeting, food safety, gardening, meal planning, preserving food, and communal hospitality without food shame.
Recovery in Motion
YMCA participation, walking and running groups, strength and mobility, parks, recreation, and trauma-sensitive movement options.
Curiosity Lab
Resident-selected learning in art, writing, music, technology, trades, science, history, nature, financial literacy, and other interests.
Nature Stewardship Corps
Gardening, trail work, park and shoreline projects, conservation partnerships, outdoor skills, reflection, and sober recreation.
Calling and Career Pathways
Exploration of employment, skilled trades, nonprofit leadership, ministry, pastoral formation, peer-support careers, education, and entrepreneurship.
Employer Formation Exchange
Employers identify workforce needs and provide job-shadowing or employment pathways while learning to build recovery-supportive workplaces.
Family Repair and Safe Belonging
Support for boundaries, grief, parenting, letter writing, safe visitation, and healthy relationships. Reconciliation is never forced when contact is unsafe or unwanted.
Service to Leadership
Residents may choose house governance, community projects, paid advisory roles, peer certification, apprenticeships, and alumni leadership.
The Proposed Facility
What the Home Is Being Designed to Provide
A proposed physical environment intentionally shaped to support whole-life recovery capital. Final design will reflect site, code, accessibility, and board guidance.
Concept visualization of proposed future use. The home is not currently operating, and people pictured are illustrative figures.
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.
Who the Home Serves
Proposed Eligibility Criteria
Recovery housing supports stable, substance-free living — it is not detox, inpatient treatment, hospitalization, or custodial care. Criteria below are proposed and will be finalized before the home opens.
A good fit for the home is…
- Adult women (18+) seeking a stable, substance-free recovery living environment
- People medically stable enough for recovery housing — not currently needing detox, inpatient treatment, hospitalization, or 24-hour medical or custodial care
- Individuals able to manage their own medications safely with peer support and referral (staff do not administer or store most medications)
- Those motivated to engage with an individualized recovery plan, peer support, and a shared house community
- People willing to honor a written house agreement covering sobriety, respect, participation, and safety
Considered with dignity
- Criminal history alone is not a disqualifier; each person is considered individually and with dignity
- No one is turned away solely for an initial inability to pay — resident contributions are on a sliding scale when the home opens
- Active danger to self or others, or a need for secure/custodial care, would require a higher level of support than this home provides
- Faith background or church involvement is never a condition of eligibility or continued residency
Submission of an interest form or meeting proposed criteria does not guarantee a bed, housing, financial assistance, or acceptance. Each resident pathway will be developed individually and with care.
A Typical Day
Daily Life & Expectations
A proposed rhythm that protects sleep, safety, sobriety, relationships, and personal agency — within a Christ-centered, resident-honoring community.
Substance-free environment
No alcohol or illicit substances on the premises. Prescription and over-the-counter medications follow a clearly communicated safety protocol.
Medication safety
Residents manage their own medications with peer support and referral. A simple check-in protocol supports safety without removing personal responsibility.
Weekly house meeting
A regular community meeting builds shared responsibility, surfaces needs early, and gives every resident a voice in the life of the home.
Daily rhythms & quiet hours
Consistent wake, meal, and rest rhythms support recovery. Overnight quiet hours protect sleep — a core recovery capital.
Shared responsibilities
Chores, cooking, and light house care rotate among residents. Shared work builds dignity, agency, and belonging rather than obligation.
Recovery plan check-ins
Each resident has individualized goals reviewed with peer or staff support — employment, education, health, relationships, faith, and transition planning.
Voluntary faith participation
Prayer, Scripture, chapel, and spiritual conversation are always available and never required. A resident may observe, question, or decline at any time.
Accountability & screens
Good-faith accountability, including possible substance screens, supports a trustworthy environment for everyone living in the home.
Clinical care stays clinical
Clinical, medical, and psychiatric care remain with licensed professionals outside the home, with informed consent and separate records where required.
Length of stay & transition
There is no fixed maximum length of stay. Residency is shaped by each resident’s goals and readiness for independent housing. Transition support — including housing search, employment, savings, and alumni connection — is part of the model, not an afterthought.
Faith & Resident-Rights Statement
Christ-Centered and Resident-Honoring
Restoring Hope Ministries believes 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. Residents may engage, observe, question, or decline spiritual activities. No person should be pressured through housing, money, Scripture, donor relationships, or organizational authority.
The ministry’s shared faith commitments include:
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.
