Jane Radocchia, center, in blue shirt, discusses the original design features of Squire Recovery House. BENNINGTON, Vt. — John Rogers, who started the process that led to its founding, called Squire Recovery House "an inspired space.
" “We had this idea that we wanted an inspired space and we have one. And the reason we wanted an inspired space is we wanted the structure, we wanted the building, to tell folks that are struggling with substances that we love and we care for them, and that we’re going to journey with them,” Rogers said. “I wanted them to just have this idea when they’re sitting in the kitchen or they’re in their bedroom to just have a building that says they’re loved and they’re of value.
" The ribbon-cutting at Squire Recovery House on North Street in Bennington on Thursday. Shires Housing is the owner and developer of the facility at 185 North St, which will house women in recovery. Located in a historic house on the National Register of Historic Places.
The facility will open later this summer. It will provide three units of recovery housing with six bedrooms serving nine women and women with dependent children as they transition to permanent housing. Rogers, an elder at the Mission City Church in Bennington, spoke to attendees at an open house and ribbon cutting at the facility Thursday.
John Rogers, an elder at the Mission City Church in Bennington, spoke at the open house and ribbon cutting at the Squire Recovery House on Thursday. He desc.
