{"id":17787,"date":"2022-04-20T01:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=17787"},"modified":"2022-04-19T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:46:17","slug":"second-chance-second-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/second-chance-second-home\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Second Chance\u2019 Second Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Men\u2019s Second Chance Living hopes to purchase second house this summer<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Eric Valentine<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Landscape<\/b><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a saying in the Valley that goes something like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne house, two jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Translation: Working class folks need two jobs to afford life along the Big Wood River.<\/p>\n

Reality: In a resort area\u2014an economic ecosystem that by its nature always has some amount of housing crisis\u2014a near catastrophic level housing situation revises the saying to something like:<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo and a half jobs, one bedroom, if any vacancy exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subject: Amid this landscape, a Valley nonprofit is managing to house up to eight men in a Hailey home. And by this summer, the Men\u2019s Second Chance Living capital campaign may have the $900,000 it figures it will take to purchase a second single-family home that could house up to an additional eight men.<\/p>\n

Side note 1: The \u201csecond chance\u201d in the organization\u2019s moniker refers to those men and their status as recovering from substance abuse disorder.<\/p>\n

Side note 2: According to the National Center on Charitable Statistics, approximately 30% of nonprofits fail to exist after 10 years, and according to Forbes, over half of all nonprofits that are chartered fail within a few years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Side note 3: If you told Americans that corporations\u2019 and the uber-wealthy\u2019s collective mantra is Gordon Gecko\u2019s \u201cGreed is good,\u201d a majority might believe you.<\/p>\n

The Blueprints<\/b><\/p>\n

So given that full landscape, how is it that a local \u201chalfway house\u201d only five years old is three-fourths of the way there to reach a nearly $1 million goal of its fundraising campaign that\u2019s taking place during a pandemic? By the way, it\u2019s a campaign that as of Easter hadn\u2019t even started yet. It must be the success of its recovery program.<\/p>\n

For Caitlin Hegwood, the administrative assistant at MSCL and \u201cright-hand\u201d person for executive director Sonya Wilander, the peer-to-peer accountability built into the sober-living model and the \u201cabove and beyond\u201d features like medical and dental care and educational funding are world class.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we\u2019ll have a resident who\u2019s our first to graduate from college while living at the house,\u201d Hegwood said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be getting an (Associate of Arts) degree in Applied Science from CSI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, according to Hegwood, all the benchmarks reached since MSCL launched in 2018 don\u2019t explain the very substantial generosity shown by the Valley community overall and especially this year. There are a lot of nonprofit successes across Idaho and beyond. The trigger is psychologically far deeper: empathy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAddiction touches everyone. There\u2019s not anyone out there who hasn\u2019t been impacted directly,\u201d whether it\u2019s their own addiction or someone else\u2019s, Hegwood observed.<\/p>\n

And then add the whole layer of a housing crisis on top of the challenges these men face.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronically, part of the reason this community is so generous is because they understand how serious the housing challenge is,\u201d Hegwood said.<\/p>\n

In September, MSCL leadership identified the need for more sober-living options countywide as substance use rates were rising nationally. And the demand for entry into the current MSCL housing supply (just one house in Hailey) has been increasing, too. In 2021, the organization received 19 applications, 13 of which were put on a wait list due to a lack of available beds. MSCL House\u2019s current residential capacity simply falls short of the community\u2019s immediate and future needs for sober homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time, we talked to stakeholders in the organization to see if there was support for a capital campaign. We called that the silent days of our capital campaign and figured if we could get 60% of what we need by May, we\u2019d then go to the public,\u201d Hegwood said.<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s April, and they\u2019re at roughly 75% of their goal.<\/p>\n

The Location<\/b><\/p>\n

So now the search for the right house begins. And although the group\u2019s parameters are fairly simple, nothing\u2019s easy when it comes to Valley home buying. Stephanie Reed, a local real estate agent, is their lead on the project, and MSCL is hoping she can help them find something like this:<\/p>\n

3 to 4 bedrooms with adequate living space for 6 to 8 men<\/p>\n

Access to public transportation<\/p>\n

Proximity to a 12-Step meeting location<\/p>\n

Close to markets or vendors with healthy food<\/p>\n

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