Cedar House Foundation

About Cedar House Foundation

Cedar House Foundation is a nonprofit sober living operator based in Abilene, Kansas, in Dickinson County.

A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider in Abilene

Cedar House Foundation runs women's recovery housing in a small central Kansas city where addresses of this kind are scarce. Organizing the work as a nonprofit foundation, not a single landlord renting rooms, puts it under a board and a public funding trail instead of one person's discretion alone.

Founded on a Mentorship Model

Patti O'Malley founded the organization to blend structured sober living with mentorship from women who already hold established long-term sobriety. The stated goal is a community for women who want to leave a drug-centered environment behind and build a routine among people further along in the same process, whether or not they arrive through the court system.

Public Funding for a Kansas Nonprofit

The foundation's work is supported in part by state opioid remediation funding and by the Sunflower Foundation, a Kansas philanthropic funder focused on health. That combination of public and philanthropic backing is a matter of record independent of anything the foundation says about itself, and it is part of why the organization can serve women beyond those referred by a court.

Operating Without a State Certification Body

Kansas has no NARR affiliate and no state agency that certifies recovery residences, so Cedar House Foundation holds no state credential because none exists in Kansas to hold. Its standing rests instead on its nonprofit registration, its funding sources and its founder's public record in the community it serves.

Serving Dickinson County

Abilene is the seat of Dickinson County, and the foundation's housing work is concentrated there, inside the same courts, social services and small employer base that most of the county's population depends on.