Living in Recovery (LIR), Howard County helps men and women reclaim their lives and break the cycle of addiction-rehab-relapse by combining affordable housing free of alcohol and drugs with peer support and a climate of personal accountability.
Too often people leaving drug and alcohol treatment programs quickly relapse because they return to their former housing and associates that supported their addiction. Recovery Housing helps stop the cycle of addiction-rehab-relapse and increases the chance for sustained recovery.
Living In Recovery was organized in 2010 as a nonprofit corporation – a group of volunteers committed to a dream of bringing the first recovery housing to Howard County. We now have three houses for men and one for women and have served over 100 people with 65% remaining sober while in residence. Experience has shown there is a need for more recovery housing in Howard County and that our housing model is effective.
LIR operates two houses for men in zip code 20794, one for men in 21042, and one for women in 21046. Each house has five residents.
Joe Willmott has been a volunteer, board member and pro bono consultant for human service organizations since 1999, focusing on housing and homelessness.
Prior to that time he served in marketing and general management positions with Baltimore Aircoil Company in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He served five years in the U.S. Navy.
Joe was one of the authors of the Howard County Plan to End Homelessness and currently serves on two oversight committees. He is a member of the Association of Community Services Public Policy Committee, Full Spectrum Housing Coalition, a Director of Living In Recovery and a weekly volunteer at the Grassroots Day Resource Center.
Joe holds degrees of Bachelor of Science (Physics) from Villanova University and Masters in Business Administration from Loyola College in Maryland. He is a member of Leadership Howard County Class of 2000. The Rotary Club of Pikesville recognized him as a Paul Harris Fellow in 2005.
Joe and his wife, Donna, reside in Columbia Maryland.
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