At Way Back Inn, we open our doors and our homes to people across Illinois who are ready to rebuild their lives. We provide safe housing, meals, counseling, and around-the-clock support, and we never turn someone away because of their ability to pay.
This work is steady, personal, and life-changing, and it is only possible because of people like you. Your gift helps ensure that when someone shows up ready for help, stability and care are already waiting.
Will you help make that possible by donating today?
Way Back Inn changed my life in a dramatic fashion, and I am so grateful.
I never saw myself doing anything like this, but look at me now!
Way Back Inn was hard, but I must admit it was worth it!
37 years later, I’m still clean and sober, and still using the skills I learned at Way Back Inn.
Help Rebuild the Lives of People Like…
robert
Grateful Alum | 2006robert
“Way Back Inn changed my life. After all these years in recovery, I still credit the program for the skills and foundation that made everything else possible – including becoming an entrepreneur and running my own business! Being able to give back here means more to me than I can say.”
nora
Grateful Alum | 2019nora
“Way Back Inn wasn’t my first attempt at recovery; I lost count several years ago. I had already accepted that addiction was going to take my life — it was just a matter of when. Instead, it took the love of my life. After he passed, I moved into Grateful House and began healing and rebuilding my life. Today, I live a sober life full of hope, and I get to pass on that hope.”
edmund
Grateful Alum | 2023edmund
“My life was unmanageable, and I knew if I really wanted to stay sober, I needed to do something different. I chose to go to Way Back Inn, a decision I’ll never regret. The structure is what my life needed and depended on. I got my family back, I’m going to school – my life has completely changed, all for the better and all because of Way Back Inn.”