This #GIVINGTUESDAY, Help Us Build Hope, Healing & Safe Recovery in DuPage County

As the holiday season and #GIVINGTUEDSAY arrives, many of us reflect on what truly matters, connection, community, and the chance to make a meaningful difference. This year, during our Season of Giving, we invite you to join Serenity House in helping individuals and families rebuild their lives through long-term recovery, safe housing, emotional healing, and expanded community support.

For 40 years, Serenity House has been a cornerstone of recovery in DuPage County, a place where people are met with dignity, compassion, and the tools they need to reclaim their lives.

In 2025, that mission has only grown stronger.

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A Transformational Year for Serenity House

This year marked extraordinary progress, and several milestones that will shape the future of recovery in our community.

A New Women’s Recovery Home — Opening 2026

In 2024, Serenity House received $475,000 from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) to create a new Women’s Recovery Home in Addison.

As of October 22, 2025, we received full zoning approval from the Village of Addison, an essential step that allows renovations to begin.

This home will provide women with:

• Safe, stable, trauma-informed housing

• Outpatient counseling access

• Job readiness and life skills support

• Community connection and peer support

• A clear pathway to independence

This expansion is a major step toward meeting the growing need for gender-responsive recovery housing in our county.

Expanding Support Across DuPage & Kane County

2025 was also a year of meaningful expansion in community outreach and support:

DuPage ROSC Kane County Expansion

Our team now offers broader harm reduction, CRSS support, overdose prevention education, and recovery navigation across Kane County, creating more access points for individuals who need immediate help.

Increased Support Groups

We expanded SMART Recovery, Refuge Recovery, Veterans support groups, and community-led meetings, ensuring more no-cost, judgment-free options for connection and accountability.

Innovative Programs Strengthening Recovery

Drama Therapy

Healing doesn’t always happen through conversation alone.

Drama Therapy has become a powerful place for emotional expression, connection, and self-discovery, helping clients process trauma, rebuild confidence, and reconnect with their stories.

Psychiatric Intervention Program (PIP)

Supported by the DuPage Community Transformation Partnership, PIP provides proactive psychiatric support for individuals experiencing mental health challenges, with or without insurance.

This program fills a critical gap, offering stabilization, coaching, and mental-health support for those who might otherwise fall through the cracks.

40 Years of Recovery, Resilience & Community Impact

Since opening in 1985, Serenity House has grown from a four-bed cottage into one of the most trusted, comprehensive recovery organizations in Northern Illinois.

Today, we continue to expand:

• Outpatient and intensive outpatient services

• DUI programs

• Adolescent treatment

• Extended residential treatment

• Recovery homes

• Community-based outreach

• Harm reduction services

• Employment and life skills support

Every year, hundreds of men, women, and adolescents begin rebuilding their lives with the help of our team, our partners, and supporters like you.

Why Your Gift Matters This Season

Recovery doesn’t happen quickly, and it doesn’t happen alone.

Your generosity directly supports the essentials that make recovery possible.

Your donation helps provide:

• Safe recovery housing

• Counseling and emotional support

• Medical, dental, and optical care

• Hot meals and basic essentials

• Job readiness and employment guidance

• Community-based recovery support

How your gift creates impact:

$50 — Provides essentials like bedding, toiletries, and meals for a new client entering treatment.

$250 — Covers one week of recovery programming and counseling.

$500 — Supports medical, dental, or mental-health support for clients in need.

$1,000 — Helps fund housing and job-readiness programs that build long-term stability.

When you give, you are not just donating money, you are helping someone feel safe, seen, supported, and hopeful again.

Stories of Hope and Change

Behind every statistic is a person. someone with a family, a history, and a future they’re fighting to rebuild.

One of those people is Ashley.

Ashley arrived at Serenity House feeling lost, overwhelmed, and unsure if recovery was truly possible for her. Through the structure of our continuum of care, outpatient services, extended residential treatment, recovery housing, counseling, job-readiness support, and community connectio, she found stability, safety, and a path forward.

With time, honesty, and support, Ashley:

• Rebuilt her confidence

• Restored relationships with her people

• Regained her sense of self-worth

• Returned to work

• Found her place in the recovery community

• Discovered strength she didn’t know she had

Today, she is alive in her life again.

Her story is a testament to what can happen when someone is given the right support, at the right time, in the right environment.

Ashley is just one of the many individuals whose lives have been changed by Serenity House, and whose futures have been shaped by the compassion of people like you.

How You Can Support Serenity House

This Season of Giving

1. Donate

Your tax-deductible contribution directly supports lifesaving recovery services across DuPage County and beyond.

2. Maximize Your Impact with Workplace Matching

Many employers will match your donation, doubling the impact of your gift.

3. Share the Campaign

Spread the word with friends, family, coworkers, and community members.

Awareness brings more people to our doors, and more people into recovery.

4. Give Items That Bring Comfort

Bedding, towels, household goods, and furniture help turn our recovery housing into a true home.

Join Us in Giving Hope, Healing & a Path Forward

This Season of Giving, we invite you to stand with us as we continue expanding support, opening new doors, and creating safe places for individuals to rebuild their lives.

Your gift can be the turning point in someone’s story, the moment where fear becomes hope, and hope becomes healing.

Recovery is possible.

Healing is real.

And every act of generosity matters.

Together, we can make this season one of hope, dignity, and new beginnings.