Texas Bar Foundation Awards Simply Grace $10,000 Grant

(Featured photo: Jennifer Da Sliva, executive director, Simply Grace.)*

Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $ 26 million in grants to law- related programs.

Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’ s largest charitably funded bar foundation. This grant will help Simply Grace transform the lives of women in recovery from addiction and their children in the Simply Grace mommy and me house.

Simply Grace received a grant from Texas Bar Foundation in the amount of $ 10,000 . This grant will fund leadership training for House Managers at our five transitional living facilities and four key staff, including training on how to guide clients to legal assistance. Simply Grace is a nonprofit organization that exists to provide a safe, structured environment to assist women recovering from substance use disorder, help to rebuild their lives and achieve long-term recovery. Simply Grace has five women’s sober living homes, an Intensive Outpatient Program, and a Thrift Store.

“Thanks to the Texas Bar Foundation, this grant will help cover the cost of a leadership training retreat for the women of Simply Grace. This will also help our house managers with necessary resources and education paired with individualized support to help connect the right resources for legal needs and concerns,” said Jennifer Da Silva, executive director.

Simply Grace has the potential to help women in recovery learn how to advocate for themselves and have the proper resources in place to overcome their legal struggles. Learn more about Simply Grace at www.simplygracehouse.com.

The mission of Simply Grace is to provide chemically dependent women a structured, safe, homelike environment where self-realization and honesty are encouraged and reinforced. Simply Grace was founded in 2011 to address the complexities of substance abuse and its impact on our community. It opened its first transitional living facility in 2013 . Simply Grace has two transitional living facilities in Plano, and facilities in Dallas, Richardson, and Fort Worth. In 2018 it opened an Intensive Outpatient treatment and counseling center. Simply Grace has undergone an in-depth review of its services and demonstrated substantial conformance to the standards required through CARF ( Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities), TROHN ( Texas Recovery Oriented Housing Network) and NARR (National Alliance for Recovery Residences). The certification based on the NARR Standard provides a level of assurance to operators, residents, granting agencies, and others that its homes meet their threshold of professional reliability and accountability.

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