Stephanie Holland serves as VFOR’s Bennington House Coordinator. A native Vermonter, Stephanie and her husband have spent over 15 years raising their children in the Green Mountain State. Having personally navigated a six-year journey of recovery, Stephanie is now committed to helping other women access the resources that were not readily available to her in her early recovery. As a Housing Coordinator, she is passionate about creating a safe and supportive environment for individuals to heal and grow. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys motivating youth through coaching sports, exploring new recipes, rescuing animals, and nurturing her love for nature with an extensive plant collection.
Sammie serves as a Housing Coordinator with the Vermont Foundation of Recovery, bringing a background in mental health and substance abuse recovery. She specializes in trauma-informed, strengths-based support for women in recovery, designing structured weekly schedules, facilitating house meetings, ensuring policy compliance, and fostering empowerment and community connection. With experience in program design and ethical decision-making, Sammie combines compassion with strategic leadership to create transparent systems that balance accountability with empowerment. She is deeply committed to building supportive environments where members can thrive and continue to develop creative tools and visual templates that make routines approachable, engaging, and accessible for all. Passionate about advocacy and sustainable recovery ecosystems, Sammie works to expand opportunities for healing and growth across Vermont.
Ray is VFOR’s House Coordinator in the Rutland men’s house. After getting into recovery in 2018, Ray worked with a recovery coach, which inspired him to become a recovery coach himself. He worked at Turning Point as a recovery coach for a couple years, after which he worked at Serenity House for about 8 months. Ray has been at the VFOR Rutland House since the fall of 2023.
Brett Hill is the House Coordinator for VFOR’s St. Johnsbury residence. He grew up in Vermont, currently lives in Lyndonville, and has two grown children. After finishing college, Brett worked for 22 years in telecommunications before deciding to switch his life focus to working in the recovery field. Along with Brett’s position with VFOR, he is a certified recovery coach at The Kingdom Recovery Center, where he works in the RCED (recovery coach in the emergency department) program. He also works with the Making Recovery Easier Outside In program, which not only brings an introduction to recovery into prisons, but also helps break down any barriers that people may have previously had in their prior attempts at living a sober life.
