Board & staff
The people holding the door open
Redemptions Recovery was built by people who refuse to treat addiction as someone else’s problem. From our Facebook community to Elliott House on Durkee Street, this board and staff show up so men in the Fox Cities have a 12-step home — and a future — after treatment.
Each life is just as valuable as the next. The battle we fight does not discriminate. Recovery is possible — and no life lost to substance use disorder is lost in vain.
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Our public mission is the same one on the page: aid those affected by substance use disorder, assist in their redemption, and liberate them from the wreckage of the past. The people below are the ones making that sentence real — in board meetings, on the books, at community nights, and in the house itself.
Board of Directors
Officers
President
Jordan Donahue
Jordan leads the board that opened Appleton’s first 12-step sober living home for men. After a year in the Fox Valley Nonprofit Leadership Institute, he put the assignment in plain language: I learned a lot this year. I am ready to go out and save the world.
That is the energy behind Elliott House — a president who treats recovery housing as a calling, not a calendar invite, and who keeps the board aimed at one outcome: men walking through the door and staying in the fight.
Vice President
Gloria West
Gloria turned the hardest loss a parent can carry into the name on our door. When Elliott House opened, she told WBAY, I have actually been involved in this a lot because my son died of alcoholism; he didn’t make it. So, we have named it after him, the Elliott House.
As vice president she keeps the work personal. Other mothers’ sons still have a chance her son did not — and she will not let this house become just another program on paper.
Treasurer
Bill Mongin
Program fees do not cover a house. Bill makes sure the rest of the story still adds up — donations, events, and the unglamorous discipline of paying for heat, food, and a roof while men rebuild their lives.
As treasurer he protects the mission in numbers: every dollar watched so Elliott House stays open, honest, and ready for the next man who is willing to do the work.
Secretary
Jay Meyers
Passion gets a house started. Follow-through keeps it standing. Jay is the board’s memory and momentum — the minutes, the motions, the “who is doing what by when” that turns a recovery vision into a running home.
He keeps Redemptions accountable to itself so the men inside the house can stay accountable to their own recovery.
Board of Directors
Members
Member
Nick Shea
Nick is the kind of board member you find in the room, not just on the roster — community nights, service days, and the Facebook-facing work of showing the Fox Cities that recovery has a home here.
He helps keep Redemptions tied to the people it serves: men who need a brotherhood, not a brochure.
Member
Tyler Shea
Tyler brings the same founding fire that opened Elliott House: show up, do the unglamorous work, and stay close to the recovery community that actually saves lives.
On the board he is a voice for the house as a living fellowship — meetings, service, and men who refuse to let each other drift.
Member
Caleb Pattee
Caleb is part of the crew that saw a gap in Fox Valley housing and decided to fill it themselves. He carries that builder’s instinct onto the board: less talk about “someday,” more work that puts a key in a man’s hand.
His focus is the same as the mission on our Facebook page — redemption that is practical, local, and fiercely hopeful.
Member
Lisa Hanneman
Lisa helped Gloria West prepare Elliott House for the men who would live there, then brought years of Fox Valley board and reentry work onto this one. She served on the ESTHER board, sits on the Outagamie County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, and walks with people coming home through Community Circles of Support.
A certified parent peer specialist, she has seen firsthand how crucial a safe, structured home is when someone is fighting to rebuild a life. She is here to advocate for the residents and keep that door open.
Organization leadership
Part-time Executive Director
Trevor Fenrich
Trevor brings more than 10 years of nonprofit and municipal leadership to Redemptions Recovery. His own journey ran through Winnebago County Drug Court and the recovery program that met him there — a path he has spent the years since pouring back into organizations across the Fox Valley.
As part-time executive director he stays committed to carrying the message to those who still suffer, and to the families walking that road with them.
Join the work
This team is still building
Want to volunteer, give, or talk about admissions? We would rather have you in the room than on the sidelines.
