When one of our founders, Rob Elsey, was helping his daughter find an Oxford House™ in 2014, it became obvious that there was only one house for women on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro area and a much greater number of houses in the state of Kansas.
It is estimated that the KCMO area has a need for as many as 60 Oxford houses. Today, there are only nine in existence. Rob and his co-founders, Anissa Elsey, Doug Ballou, and Nancy Whitworth, decided to form GRACE with the unflinching goal of providing hope through safe, sober living.