Learn More About Our Mission
Restoring Dignity • Strengthening Communities • Creating Opportunities
STAGGERS Foundation was founded from personal experience, loss, resilience, faith, and a deep commitment to helping people who are facing some of life’s most difficult circumstances.
Our mission is to restore dignity, strengthen communities, and create opportunities through housing, education, wellness, youth development, veteran support, second-chance opportunities, and compassionate community outreach.
We believe that people should not be defined by their circumstances, their past, their losses, or the hardest chapter of their lives.
Everyone deserves an opportunity to rebuild.
Our Programs
Housing & Dignity Suites
We provide safe, stable, dignified housing opportunities for individuals and families who need a place to rebuild.
Our housing initiatives include:
Transitional housing
Veteran housing
Housing for domestic violence survivors
Reentry and second-chance housing
Dignity Suites
Emergency and supportive housing
Furnished housing opportunities
Housing navigation and placement assistance
Move-in assistance and essential household support
Domestic Violence Services
This work is deeply personal.
STAGGERS Foundation was founded by Vivian Avasthi Wright Allen, a woman who has personally experienced the devastating impact of domestic violence.
After losing her husband, a military veteran, while he was serving in Afghanistan, Vivian experienced profound grief and began the process of rebuilding her life.
While healing, she met someone she believed cared for her. She married him, believing she had found love and safety. Instead, she found herself in a relationship involving domestic violence that nearly cost her her life.
Vivian survived.
That experience changed the direction of her life and strengthened her determination to help other people who may feel trapped, afraid, isolated, or without options.
Through STAGGERS Foundation, she wants survivors to know:
You are not alone.
Your life has value.
You deserve safety.
You deserve dignity.
You deserve another opportunity to rebuild.
Our Domestic Violence Services focus on helping survivors move from crisis toward safety, stability, independence, and healing through housing assistance, resource navigation, essential needs, referrals, supportive services, and community partnerships.
Veteran Support
We honor veterans and their families by connecting them with housing, resources, community support, and opportunities for stability.
Second-Chance & Reentry Housing
We believe a person’s past should not eliminate their opportunity for a future.
Our second-chance initiatives support individuals returning to the community who need housing, stability, employment resources, life structure, and an opportunity to rebuild.
Food Pantry & Mobile Pantry
Our food assistance programs help individuals and families experiencing financial hardship access nutritious food and essential household supplies.
Our mobile pantry initiative brings resources directly into communities where they are needed.
Education & Workforce Support
We connect individuals with educational resources, employment referrals, workforce opportunities, training, and supportive services designed to help people become more stable and self-sufficient.
Youth Development
We support young people through mentorship, educational opportunities, community activities, resources, and programs designed to help them recognize their potential.
Wellness & Support Services
We connect individuals and families with wellness resources, supportive services, referrals, community partners, and opportunities to develop healthier and more stable lives.
Community Outreach
We serve our communities through compassionate outreach, resource distribution, community events, essential-needs assistance, partnerships, and programs designed to meet people where they are.
Turning Pain Into Purpose
STAGGERS Foundation is also rooted in the life and legacy of Davontay, Vivian’s son.
Davontay was passionate about housing and believed in giving people who had made mistakes an opportunity for a second chance. He understood the struggle personally and knew what it meant to face difficult circumstances while trying to rebuild.
His life was tragically cut short after trusting someone he considered a friend.
His loss created another devastating chapter of pain for Vivian and her family.
But through that pain came an even stronger determination to serve.
Vivian chose to turn her pain into purpose.
The experiences she has survived, the people she has lost, and the struggles she has witnessed have given her a personal understanding of why housing, safety, dignity, second chances, and compassionate support matter.
She does not serve these communities simply because they are statistics.
She serves because she understands the struggle.
She knows what it feels like to lose someone you love.
She knows what it feels like to have your life changed by violence.
She knows what it means to have to rebuild.
She knows what it means to fight for another chance.
And she knows that sometimes one safe place, one caring person, one opportunity, or one helping hand can change the direction of someone’s life.
Our Commitment
STAGGERS Foundation is committed to transforming personal pain into community purpose.
We serve veterans, domestic violence survivors, individuals seeking a second chance, families experiencing hardship, people experiencing housing instability, and communities that need additional support.
We believe housing is more than a roof.
It is safety.
It is dignity.
It is stability.
It is an opportunity to heal.
It is a foundation for a new beginning.
Help Us Create That New Beginning.
Support STAGGERS Foundation as we continue building programs that give people the opportunity to move from survival to stability, from crisis to hope, and from hardship to opportunity.
Need Someone to Talk To?
Sometimes you don’t need someone to fix everything. Sometimes you simply need someone to listen.
If you are experiencing loneliness, feeling overwhelmed, going through a difficult season, healing from a painful experience, or simply need someone to talk with, you don’t have to go through it alone.
As a certified behavioral and life coach with training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Vivian Avasthi Wright Allen offers compassionate, confidential one-on-one coaching conversations designed to help you work through challenges, identify patterns, regain your sense of direction, and create practical steps toward moving forward.
Book an Appointment
STAGGERS Foundation’s community programs and supportive resources are provided free of charge to those who qualify.
Life Coaching is the only paid service.
Life Coaching Membership — $25 Per Month
Your $25 monthly membership includes:
Two one-on-one coaching sessions each month
A dedicated time to talk and be heard
Support with loneliness, life challenges, motivation, and feeling stuck
Help identifying goals and creating practical steps forward
Accountability and encouragement between sessions
You don’t have to wait until everything falls apart to ask for help.
Sometimes talking to someone can be the first step toward feeling like yourself again.
Schedule Your Appointment
Book your appointment today and give yourself permission to talk, breathe, process, and begin moving forward.
STAGGERS FOUNDATION
Restoring Dignity • Strengthening Communities • Creating Opportunities
