From early volunteer service to running an orphanage in Peru, where she was shot and paralyzed, to another thirty years of service from a wheelchair, Anne Ambrose has devoted her life to helping the less fortunate. For the past sixteen years, Anne has committed her talent, time, money, and spirit to founding and running Serenity House, an intensive residential recovery program for adolescent and young adult male addicts from throughout the United States. Serenity House’s mission reflects Anne’s passion: “To create an environment for our young men and their families that supports recovery from addictions and heals relationships so that the addicts may become productive persons of integrity who live up to their full potential." Anne never gives up on others.
Anne draws no distinction between her “job” and her private life. She welcomes all of her clients and their families to her own home -- in good times and bad, any time day or night. In turn, her family, friends and staff shelter young addicts, volunteer at Serenity House, and share Anne’s passion to find the good and make a difference in the lives of others who struggle with their past and work toward transcending their present.
Born to help others, Anne redoubles her commitment to young addicts when, as Anne herself says, “I’ve known the joy of raising my own children, blessed with exceptional potential, and the despair of watching them waste away in addiction and the joy again of seeing them become productive and sober young men.” Anne has taken what she has learned in struggling to reach and eventually save her own family and brought this hard-won knowledge, compassion, and commitment to others throughout the nation.
Anne Ambrose runs an extraordinarily well respected, over-subscribed, and under-funded program that nonetheless achieves miracles in helping young people escape the imprisonment of addiction. To meet Anne is to meet a true hero, one who not only improves the quality of many lives – but also saves them.
To learn more about Anne and her cause, and how you can make a difference, please visit:
www.serenityhouse.org.
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