🔒 Serenity Inns to assemble 14-bed therapy facility
Serenity Inns to assemble 14-bed therapy facility
Drug and alcohol therapy facility Serenity Inns will likely be increasing its Walnut Hill facility with a brand new constructing. (Picture courtesy of Google Avenue View)
Serenity Inns, an alcohol and drug therapy middle in Milwaukee’s Walnut Hill neighborhood has introduced plans to broaden its current residential therapy companies, with a brand new 14-bed facility. The $2.4 million facility is slated to be constructed on two former city-owned heaps situated throughout the road from Serenity Inns present location at 2825 West Brown
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Serenity Inns, an alcohol and drug therapy middle in Milwaukee’s Walnut Hill neighborhood has introduced plans to broaden its current residential therapy companies, with a brand new 14-bed facility.
The $2.4 million facility is slated to be constructed on two former city-owned heaps situated throughout the road from Serenity Inns present location at 2825 West Brown St. and can serve males, in step with its present operations. The properties are situated at 2816 and 2830 West Brown Avenue.
The sale of the parcels was accepted this week by the town’s Zoning, Neighborhoods & Improvement Committee. Serenity Inns plans to interrupt floor on the two-story facility this fall with hopes to have it up in operation by late summer time of subsequent yr.
The necessity for expanded companies is very crucial, defined Kenneth Ginlack, CEO of Serenity Inns, given the alarming rise in overdose deaths.
Whereas the fentanyl epidemic has affected each women and men, it has had a a lot better affect on Wisconsin’s male inhabitants, Ginlack famous.
The nonprofit’s present facility has 12 beds and can stay in operation after the brand new facility is constructed, giving Serenity Inns 26 therapy beds. The nonprofit additionally has a sober dwelling residence home. Known as the “alumni home” the residence constructing can serve 16 males who’ve beforehand accomplished the nonprofit’s therapy program.
The undertaking is being financed by the Illinois Amenities Fund (IFF), a neighborhood improvement monetary establishment skilled in serving to nonprofits to fund capital initiatives.
“IFF exists to offer community-based organizations like Serenity Inns with the help they should strengthen their communities, and we’re thrilled to assist finance the development of the group’s new residential therapy facility,” mentioned Darian Luckett, IFF’s director of lending for Wisconsin and Iowa, in a press launch. “With its new facility, Serenity Inns will be capable of broaden entry to companies for people scuffling with substance use and supply essential training about drug prevention and the early indicators of habit. At a time when overdose deaths are surging across the nation, this can be a undertaking that may assist Milwaukee higher reply to the disaster is a significant approach.”
Serenity Inns additionally plans to launch a capital marketing campaign to have interaction the neighborhood within the undertaking.
A collaborative effort initiated by a gaggle of Lutheran church buildings within the Milwaukee space, Serenity Inns launched in 2004 to deal with a urgent want for residential AODA therapy for males. Through the years, the nonprofit has efficiently handled over 650 males via its holistic residential program, addressing members’ bodily, social, emotional, monetary, and religious well being wants, empowering them to get better and grow to be productive members of society.
An elevation drawing offers a glimpse of the design for Serenity Inn’s new facility slated to be constructed throughout the road from its present location. (Drawing courtesy of Serenity Inns)
