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The House Of Care Wants to Help

It is the Mission of The House of Care to help all those struggling in one of our lived forms of recovery in every way we can.

WHO WE HOPE TO SERVE.

  • People who struggle with substance use disorders and their families.

  • Anyone without a permanent address and working to make progress towards recovering from that circumstance.

  • People surviving below the poverty limits in their local area.

  • Anyone with mental health issues and the families that support them.

  • People struggling with food insecurity.

  • People surviving and or trying to recover from domestic violence.

How We Want to Help

  • Our founder is currently serving as our first outreach specialist. With nine years lived experience in navigating recovery from addiction and mental health crisis while parenting four children, not to mention a lifetime of experience cycling through the criminal justice system, Mike Deno now serves many communities. From sitting on local recovery councils to leading clubs at Shawnee Community College, to serving as student trustee, a passion to help others struggling drives all that he does.

  • We have connections for that. Our public support groups page can help with that now. We partner with local treatment facilities to help you find the care you need no matter what

  • We have partners for that. Specifically, The House of Care has been rooted in the community college scene since birth and as such we have partnered with the school that helped our founding family the most .Shawnee Community College's Adult Education department is on stand by and ready to serve. No matter if you are looking to achieve your GED, earn workforce certifications, or dive all in and get a degree, Shawnee wants to help just like The House of Care.

  • Founders Michael and Alecia Deno have both had to learn first hand to navigate the financial aide system for the past three years as full time students. So whether its FASFA , scholarships, grants, or additional expense funding we have probably found a way to solve that need for ourself already a time or too. So we would love to help you navigate it too.

  • We hope to be able to help with this in the future. Our concept is volunteers with lived experience helping each other. Maybe a funded independent project would make a great plan.

  • We want to feed you. One our our goals is for every House of Care facility to operate as a regional food pantry and offer some sort of soup kitchen services.

  • The House of care wants to establish workforce driven recovery housing that services all those who struggle.

  • If you are in college already programs like Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), available through the Shawnee Development Council provides gas vouchers. Also if you do not have a vehicle and are a college student then your school usually will provide and or facilitate bus services, but you have to ask.

  • We have volunteer programs which enrich the lives of participants and help the communities they serve.

  • We already have a public resources section for that.

People who lived through it Helping People still living in it

Our organization was not founded by a renowned doctor or recovery specialist. Just a regular family who has been through some ringers with a plan to help other people struggling find and achieve an educational tool in efforts to succeed. After all, in recovery they teach us to give back. Service keeps you sober. Right! Well that works for all those struggling. The unique struggles and situations that a person living a life of recovery at any phase has to face can be overwhelming to say the least. We seek to make those struggles and situations easier to manage, thereby, improving chances of success and reducing the rate of relapse. We believe people who succeed have a moral obligation to give back to their community, and it is this spirit of “People Helping People”, we hope to help just one family that goes on to help one more.

Contact Us

Our project development team is constantly working to create more new programs to get more help to more people struggling and their families. If you have a need please let us know if you have an idea let us know, because we really do care. Our organization was not founded by a renowned doctor or recovery specialist. Just a normal family that has lived through some struggles and wants to help others struggle less.

The dark sad reality is, that the disease of addiction affects 46.3 million people directly in America every year. Those are the people we know are addicted its 16% of our population. A record-high 653,104 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January 2023. This is more than a 12.1 percent increase over the previous year. In 2022: 44.2 million people lived in food-insecure households. 11.7 million adults lived in households with very low food security. Then that cascades out by affecting all of their families and then their communities. These very real problem in our communities will only go away with more effort than it took to create them. Strong communities accomplish great things. Join us in the struggle as we aim to beat back relapse and recidivism though continued support services.