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History THIS IS THE STORY…… Halfway House Committee, Inc./Sadie Waterford Manor is a non-profit organization, founded in 1950 by the late Mrs. Sadie Waterford-Jones. She was formerly Mrs.. Warren B. Douglas. While working for the Institute for Juvenile Research, she organized a committee of women who went to the Cook County Juvenile court to observe the dispensation of cases involving girls ten to eighteen years of age, who came from broken homes and disruptive environments. Some were placed in foster homes; but most of them were sent to institutions. That was the only place available to some of these girls, who often had been abused and neglected in critical stages of their lives. They needed help to find hope, encouragement, and confidence in themselves. It was at this point that Sadie’s “dream” began to take that shape of a plan. The plan was an “in-between” home for trouble girls where they would be guided into a happy and purposeful life. It was then that Halfway House Committee, Inc was born, in order to raise money for this “dream” of a home. After twenty-five years of raising funds, the doors opened in 1974. Seaway National Bank granted the Halfway House Committee a thirty years mortgage. The loan was paid off in ten years. Halfway House Committee, Inc./Sadie Waterford Manor members and supporters go to great lengths to lend their voices, money, and time to keep the Sadie Waterford Manor “dream” alive. |
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