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Hope for Tomorrow, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was established in October 1999 to meet the incredible demand for residential services in Kane, Kendall, DeKalb, and DuPage County. While working as an Alcohol & Drug Counselor at an extended residential treatment facility, our founding president, Jeff Gilbert, witnessed many of the same individuals bounce back and forth from the streets, to jails, to institutions and back to treatment. Some ended up in prisons, while others languished on long waiting lists for a residential bed, and others died before they could return to treatment. Those who successfully completed short-term, highly-structured programs were often sent to transitional housing with virtually no structure or supportive services. A facility providing the appropriate level of care for this population simply did not exist. Jeff, his wife Janet, and Jeff's mother, Carolyn Duetsch, opened Hope for Tomorrow, Inc. to fill this void in the Continuum of Care.

Today, Hope for Tomorrow serves as a “ beacon of hope” to the hundreds of men and women (and their families) we have assisted in “ building their lives around their recovery not their recovery around their lives."® We are the only community-based facility of our kind providing a unique combination of clinical and spiritual guidance in conjunction with permanent supportive housing. Our mission is to help the chronic substance abusing, chemically dependent individual fulfill their needs to grow, to develop into what they are capable of becoming and to ultimately develop a life based upon truth, goodness, wholeness, justice and order, richness and totality, and self-sufficiency and autonomy.

We provide professional clinical services to individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, age, creed, sex, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or financial ability to pay.

Licensed through the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse (DASA).

Member of the Illinois Association of Extended Care (IAEC).

 
     
  Hope for Tomorrow, Inc.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS


Officers:
Chairman: John Bush, B.S., J.D., Atty.

Vice Chair: Bryan Lundeen

Treasurer: Carl Jordan, B.S., M.B.A.
Secretary: Barbara Pancake, MCS

                   V.P. Northern Trust Bank

 

*Jeff Gilbert, MA, CADC, PCGC, MISA 1

*Janet Gilbert

 


Directors:

Rob Castillo, LCSW, CADC, MISA II
Terrilee Dalton, PhD, LCSW, CADC
Carolyn Duetsch

Richard Lewis

Steve DePauw

Tom Killion

Bob Niemann

 


 

Hope for Tomorrow Foundation Board of Directors

 

Officers:

Chairman: John Bush, B.S., J.D., Atty.

Vice Chair: Bryan Lundeen

Treasurer: Carl Jordan, B.S., M.B.A.
Secretary: Barbara Pancake, MCS

                   V.P. Northern Trust Bank

*Jeff Gilbert, MA, CADC, PCGC, MISA 1

*Janet Gilbert

 

Directors:

Jeff Weseman

Carolyn Duetsch

Fundraising Committee:
Chairperson: Carolyn Duetsch
Members: Carl Jordan, Annette Ward, Janet Gilbert, Barbara Pancake, Bryan Lundeen, Steve DePauw

 

Advisory Committee:
Annette Ward

Minnie Sandstedt

George Weseman

Jeff Weseman

 

* Denotes non-voting member

 
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Founding President & Executive Clinical Director:
Jeff Gilbert, MA, CADC, PCGC, MISA1
 
Medical Director: Dr. Bill Gossman, MD
                            (Non-compensated)

Assistant to the Executive Director:
Luke Marquardt

Office Help, Telemarketing & Mailing: Community Volunteers

Each house employs a House Manager whose primary duties include continual monitoring of Hope for Tomorrow's policies and procedures to ensure that the safety, structure, support, and sobriety of their residence is intact.

House managers: Lenny H., Jim C., Todd C., Tim S. and Vicky T.

 
 
 
 

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Licensed and funded in part by the Illinois Department of Human Services,
Division of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse (DASA)
Member of the Illinois Association of Extended Care (IAEC)

 

 

 

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