#MoveInDay: 5/19/23

May 30

**After**

***The 2nd Story Foundation was founded to help men living successful lives in recovery transition to independent living.***
Alcoholism and addiction create a tremendous amount of suffering. This suffering takes many forms: unemployment and homelessness; broken family ties; isolation and despair and the weight of lost time. Darkness abounds and there’s little hope in going it alone.
***But there is a way forward.***
***There is deep change in earnest sobriety and the way is paved by healthy communities.***
The way is lit by the compassion, kindness, support, and love of those who care. We care to embrace those suffering from alcoholism and addiction and help transform the suffering of addiction to the joy of recovery.

We were honored to be asked to take on such an important task for SSF, we know how difficult their journey has been and our hope is that by creating a beautiful home for them they can recover with piece of mind knowing they are not alone.

Design Team: @anawilson @kathyrobbins Roxanne Wendel Lostroscio

Volunteers: Sherry Kulhanek, Chris Pasiewicz Minasian,Michele Osborn Bjarnson, Maryann Murnin and daughter Roisin Sabrina Vizioli, Marilyn Cahill, Mary Peterson Gibbons, Julie Otsuka Radtke and newcomers Kris and Michelle Powell.

This moving day was an amazing experience in partnership with @secondstoryfoundation to provide for individuals transitioning out of Pathway to Sobriety a group home they can call “home”. Second story foundation purchased and rehabbed home, our volunteers performed their magic and made the house into a home by furnishing it with gently used items and brand new items collected from our community.

We would like to thank Sharing Connections Inc for providing all the mattresses and box springs, TOY BOX CONNECTION CHILDREN'S NON-PROFIT for toiletries and other essentials and The Center for all of your help. 

A BIG THANK YOU to all of the wonderful people who purchased from our Amazon wish list, those brand new items really make all the difference in the level of dignity we are able to provide.