Living with Purpose

Living with Purpose is dedicated to our consumers in the assisted-living houses and to our local neighborhood in Baden. We have launched initiatives to support the families in our neighborhood including the annual School Supply Giveaway where we host over 20 vendors who provide free services, supplies, clothing, and shoes to students and their parents to ensure success for their academic year.

We also regularly canvass to keep our Baden neighbors up-to-date on physical and mental health offerings, including a vaccination clinic hosted at our central office and the annual Minority Mental Health Month event in July. We are passionate about bridging the resource gap that Black communities face and to re-allocate disproportionate community supports to our Black families.

We are also active in the state's Opioid Initiative and offer numerous services to people living with opioid use disorders and other substance use disorders. Some of those services and programs include G.E.D. classes, the Sober Outing Series, housing assistance, transportation assistance, technology access, and referrals to treatment just to name a few. Here are testimonials from some of our community members:

"I love it. I feel like it's a Godsend, because people don't have to help. They're not obligated to help. Any assistance for families in need is helpful. The help to the heroin addicts is amazing. To get folk off the streets."

Erica Hines and Loretta Thomas
- Flourish Grant Recipients

"I appreciate it. I really needed it. It's going to help a lot. The neighborhood down. We don't have no stores…Crime. The shooting, the killing. I'm from the county so in my day we didn't have all that. In order to improve we need some stores here. We need some things for the kids to do."

Michael Shepard
- Flourish Grant Recipient

"The diapers have worked out great during my time of need. Cause diapers are high. And I am buying diapers for two kids and I really need it. [The diapers] came on time. I have also received my furniture and it looks beautiful in my living room."

Asia Wilson
- Diaper Bank and Flourish Grant Recipient