Capital Campaign

Our $3,000,000 Capital Campaign for the Recovery Campus at Wayside House – "Building on a Foundation of Hope" is entering its third year. We want to bring you up to date on our successes and tell you what still needs to be done. We also want you to know that, because of ongoing needs, we have extended the campaign until 2012.

To date, we have raised $1,258,000 through contributions and pledges. We have completed construction of the Cocoon Children and Family Center, where we will hold parenting classes, marriage and family counseling, play and art therapy for the children, in-house AA, and other recovery meetings for the community. The Cocoon Center houses our outpatient and intensive outpatient programs. We hope you have noticed our beautiful butterfly sign which marks the site of this wonderful new program.

We have done considerable remodeling and refurbishing of the main house. We have installed hurricane windows, a new dining room floor and table and chairs, a new kitchen floor, new carpeting, new bedroom furniture, new landscaping, and fresh paint. There is more to be done, as the house is old and frame. Remember, we have 23 recovering women using (and abusing) the house 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year!

We are so proud of our Transitional Living Program, whereby selected women can stay at Wayside House for up to a year, living in a separate but attached facility with supervision, a hot meal every night, and a commitment to pay their way as they transition back into society. There was such a need in this community for a safe, licensed, monitored, not-for-profit facility such as the one we have created.

The Board of Directors has decided to take a dramatic step and expand the Transitional Living Program to house ten more women. We plan to go up above the administrative wing of the house with five bedrooms, each housing two women, as well as a lounge and storage facility. There is such a need in this community for safe, affordable, family-like longer term housing for women in early recovery. The last thing we want to do is send our girls back to "toxic" environments where much of our good work can well be undone. Nor do we want them in local "sober houses" where, in many cases, the chances of staying sober are limited. Transitional Living keeps the Wayside graduates in a less restricted "cocoon" where they can eat dinner with other sober women and gain the advantages of Wayside therapy programs and AA meetings. Obviously, the cost of such a facility is great. We know this is the right next step, but we need help from donors such as you.

Finally, we need money for endowment – so that we can preserve our past and protect our future.

In these difficult times, we feel a special need to help our community's most vulnerable – addicted women who have hit bottom physically, emotionally, spiritually and financially – and the children who are the innocent victims of their mother's addiction.

We hope you will join other people who love Wayside House to save lives of addicted women and restore their families to health. Never before has Wayside attempted an effort so grand. We hope it will touch your heart – as it has ours. Thank you.

Make a gift to:

Advisory Board

Mr. & Mrs. Seth Dmitrovsky (Susan)
Mr. & Mrs. Keith Waters (Valerie)
Mrs. & Mrs. J. Marshall Duane (Susan)
Debora R. Moore, Esq.
Ms. Kim Hanson
Mrs. Kera K. Trowbridge
The Rev. Kathleen P. Gannon
Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Greene (Linda)
Mrs. Georgia A. Felger
Mr. Rex Ford
Mr. & Mrs. Pete Dye (Alice)
Mrs. Betsy Blake
Mr. & Mrs. Norton V. (Cap) Coyle (Lydia)
Mr. Joseph Jingoli
Mrs. Frances W. Jingoli
Ms. Shirley L. Unwin
Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. McCracken
Mr. Ernst Mahler
Ms. Anita J Casey
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Degenhart
Mrs. Martha B. Stimson