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Mar. 18, 2026 – Paula Jolly founded Amanda’s House to honor her daughter and is helping other women find help with their addiction.
For Jolly, healing did not come in silence; it came in action. After losing her daughter to addiction in 2020, Jolly set out to help others. “During this time that she was going through her struggles, we saw that there weren’t enough sober living [options] in Green Bay for women, and none for women with their kids,” Jolly said.
What Jolly saw during her own daughter’s fight, she saw in other places. Oftentimes, it was mothers having to choose between rehabilitation and their kids. “I worked in another sober living, and I saw too many women leave too early because they wanted to reunite with their kids, and because they weren’t ready, the cycle just continued,” Jolly said.
Jolly then started the Mandolin Foundation and opened Amanda’s House, a sober living home built not only on structure, but with compassion.
