Cocktails by Cask 'N Keg

Hors d'oeuvres by Go Fish/Steak Loft

Music by Rock & Soul Revue

Live & Silent Auction

Please join us in support of a local organization that offers support and therepeutic care to adolescent youth in our area.

The sagging economy and funding cuts have challenged our nonprofit agency to seek new ways of increasing revenues in order for us to continue our work with adolescents needing special therapeutic care.  To increase awareness of our organization and in an effort to raise funds for the Transitions to Adulthood Program and to enable us to continue to prepare our adolescent residents for the responsibilities of young adulthood, we will be hosting our first annual "Roots & Wings" Gala & Auction.

The funds that we raise will ensure that Noank Group Homes will continue to offer our residents support and care which has a lasting impact on their lives. Please read on to hear how some of our former residents have benefited from their experience with the organization:

"I was a hard nut to crack when I lived at High Street House in the 1980’s.  I trusted no one and no one had a reason to trust me.  I wasn’t easy to live with or to like. I didn’t like myself.  But no one on the staff gave up on me.  They saw something good in me that I couldn’t see.  After a while, I smiled a little more and started to believe that maybe I was good enough to love and be loved.  I don’t know how my life would have turned out if I didn’t live in a group home like High Street House."   JLB

 “I lived at High Street House” many years ago and I often thought it should have been called High Street Home because that’s what it was to me.  I had parents but I never felt like I was living in a family until I went to live at High Street House in Mystic.  I felt loved and cared for by people that weren’t even related to me.  When my two children were much younger, they would ask me where I lived when I was their age - - I told them I lived in Mystic with my “family” in a home where there was fun, laughter, discipline, and love.  That’s how I tried to raise my kids, too. "   M.B.

"When I lived with my Mom and Dad, we never celebrated birthdays and Christmas was just a day to watch holiday movies. Santa Claus never found our apartment I guess.  I was taken from Mom and Dad because of neglect.  I went to live in one of Noank (Baptist) Group Homes.   It was there that I learned how birthdays and Christmas holidays were celebrated in happy families.  I also learned how to cook and bake, how to save money, and clip coupons for grocery shopping.  I really appreciate what the group home taught me and how they saved my life.  Thank you!"   Sue