Raise A Roof
We built a new home!
We were eager to help more women experience recovery, find healing, and build new, supportive relationships and urgently needed to move to a larger building to meet with the growing number of women who were coming to us for support. And we accomplished that in May 2024!
Read the news stories about the progress as our new Saint John home was being built. And sign-up for our eNews to keep up-to-date on our NEW Saint John location and other Sophia Recovery Centre news!
Our New Home
Our new home features small meeting rooms for counselling sessions and larger community spaces for group programs like yoga, meditation, art, book clubs and writing workshops. It has cozy nooks for reading and journaling, a welcoming kitchen for coffee and chats, and a living room that serves as a home away from home for women who need a peaceful space to focus on their recovery process.
Construction Start Date
November 2023
Completion Date
Spring 2024
Our DREAM CAME TrUE
Our community helped us raise $1,500,000.
We’ve built community right into the structure, with a custom-designed, floor-to-ceiling Gratitude Wall in the building’s main entrance.
Thank You to all of Donors ~ we are SO GRATEFUL!
Level 1
Sisters of Charity of Immaculate Conception
Level 2
Murphy Restaurants Ltd
John and Lisa Correia
Isles Foundation
Scott McCain and Leslie Mclean
Crabtree Foundation
Dobson Group
Lynn Nagle and Margaret Erskine
Canada Life
Fr. Eugene O'Leary Council 6595 K of C
Lynn and Bob McLaughlin
Level 3
BelleBay Construction
Tracy, Julien and Gabriel Meyer
Paul and Julie Atkinson
Fundy Engineering
Chris Bourque and Lori Kelly
Dillon Consulting
"Benjamin Moore Quispamsis -
Jacqueline and Ian Mackinnon"
Scholten's Landscape and Design Ltd.
Level 4
Dr. Steven Bryniak and Dr. Nancy Grant
Mary-Eileen O'Brien and Greg Flynn
Freemasons of the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick
Muriel Buckley
Lynn Irving
Thandi
In Memory of Stephanie Kingston
Bailey Buckley Family Dentistry
Watts Leasing
TSA Ladies Curlers
The Nagle Sisters
TOSS Solutions Inc.
Madeline Ellen Smith
Level 5
In Memory of Val S.
Brad Stanley Financial Services
Family of the late Gerald T. Casey
Ellen Buckley
Sam Flewelling and Keith Comeau
Totten Family in support of recovery
Low Family
Saint John High School Students
Marshalls HOMESENSE
Suzanne Johnston
"In Memory of Alexis Ariel Robichaud
August 25, 1983 - April 7, 2017"
Women@Plaza /Plaza Retail REIT
Level 6
Greg Buck
Brenda Young
Amy Groom
Suzanne Cole
Jo-Anne Renton
Drew MacCartney
Beth Gilbert
Stephen and Lisa Wilson
Lisa McLaughlin
Jennifer Bergeron
Alexya Heelis
Sandra McNeill
Susan Marpole
Rita Bortolussi
Dr. Colin Rouse Prof Corp
Catherine Connolly
Andree Safford
Sherry Tays
Kathy Dumouchel
Bock Reid
Anna Hull-Schold
Ann Barbour
Mary Lou McEvoy
Linda Campbell
M Crowley
Lori Lavric
Bernard Cormier
Megan Quayle
Terry Nagle
Bazin Kern
Mary MacPhail
Vicki Woods
Brandi-Lee Wetmore
Theresa Mullett
Nancy Boutcher
Tia Otiene
John Nugent
Kerrie Luck
Kim Tompkins
Delia Holland
Mark Surette
Tim Petersen
L Palmer
L Macneil
Bev Mosher
Margaret Pawley
Judy Wityszyn
Julie Nice
Judy Murphy
Spencer and Dianne Reynolds
Saint John the Baptist School
