FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTORBethany Britton graduated in December 2018, from the University of Illinois Master’s MSW Program with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health. In 2017, she received her bachelor’s in communication from the University of Illinois. She was awarded the YMCA Bailey’s Fellowship, for her service in creativity passion, and commitment through community organization. The 2017 Fred H. Turner Leadership Award was awarded as she proceeded to complete her bachelor’s degree. In 2018 she was awarded Roxie A. Watson Student Leadership Award for succeeding in academic pursuit despite encountering her person obstacles. While working toward her MSW, she founded the non-profit organization “Women in Need Recovery”. Bethany was inspired to make a change due to her own experience of despair with homeless and involvement with the justice system. She began to pursue transitional housing for women and LGBTQ population who are being discharged from treatment or released from Jail and/or prison. WIN Recovery was founded in 2015 by Bethany Little, a formerly incarcerated person in recovery who was eager to support other women and LGBTQ2S individuals returning from prison and jail. She began by welcoming women returning from prison into her own home. During her road to recovery, she experienced a lack of reentry services available to women. In particular, transitional housing that offers trauma-informed programs, recovering from substance misuse, reunification, and leadership skills. Bethany was eager to establish her own reentry home her to create the WIN Recovery program. WIN Recovery is proudly a founding member of the international Sisterhood Alliance for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) Housing Network. This network was created by A New Way of Life (ANWOL) Reentry Project dedicated to supporting the replication of its innovative, internationally acclaimed reentry model. Based out of Champaign, IL we opened our first Reentry Safe Home in 2019 and a second in 2020. WIN Recovery opened its third Reentry Safe Home in Cook County, Chicago planning to expand across Illinois.Bethany chose to dedicate her life to empowering other women to learn to help themselves. “All I needed was one person to believe in me and I was blessed with the opportunity to help other women like myself. If I can be that one person that believes in these women and give my support, encouragement, stability, and hope their dreams can be awakened too!” -Bethany Britton-Little, Founder & Executive Director Together we can WIN Recovery!