Anna Hover has been hired to be the new executive director of Silver Sobriety, a Stillwater-based nonprofit organization devoted to providing older adults with affordable non-residential recovery services for alcohol and drug addiction.
An open house to welcome Hover and to celebrate the organization’s 10th anniversary will be held 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at Silver Sobriety’s new location at 1825 Curve Crest Blvd.
Silver Sobriety offers education, recovery services and support to adults ages 50 and older. Separating treatment by age is important, co-founder Win Miller said, because older adults may not relate to younger people whose problems, life experience and drugs of choice are different from their own.
Hover “understands the suffering of both the alcoholic/addict and the family members,” Miller said. “That makes her well-qualified for our job.”
Hover also has nonprofit experience, Miller noted, including the founding of her own nonprofit organization called Magnolia Mouths Media.
Hover works as an interpretive facilitator at the Minnesota State Capitol with the Minnesota Historical Society and as a tour guide at Paisley Park. She serves on the Mayor’s Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities in St. Paul and on Ramsey County’s Public Safety Advisory Board.
For more information, go to www.silversobriety.org.