Through The Rose of Sharon 7, Inc., visionary nonprofit leader Sharon Jackson is helping women overcome addiction, heal from trauma, pursue education, and reclaim their futures.
For a woman recovering from addiction, the journey toward a new life requires more than sobriety. She may also need a safe place to live, support in healing from trauma, help repairing family relationships, an opportunity to continue her education, and someone who still believes in her potential.
Sharon Jackson understands that reality.
As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Rose of Sharon 7, Inc., Jackson has devoted her life to helping women affected by addiction, incarceration, trauma, and homelessness move from crisis to stability, and ultimately from survival to purpose.
Her work is grounded in a powerful conviction: every woman possesses inherent dignity, value, and the capacity to transform her life.
Standing in the Gap for Women
Jackson’s commitment to recovery services grew from witnessing the devastating effects of addiction on individuals, families, and communities. She saw women repeatedly moving between incarceration, substance-abuse treatment, homelessness, and unstable living environments without receiving the comprehensive support necessary to build lasting change.
Rather than stand on the sidelines, Jackson chose to stand in the gap.
In 2012, she opened her first sober-living home, creating a safe, structured, and supportive environment where women could begin rebuilding their lives. The home provided more than shelter. It offered stability, accountability, encouragement, and a community committed to recovery.
Jackson soon recognized an even greater need: licensed residential treatment services specifically designed for women.
In 2016, she expanded her mission by opening a six-bed, faith-based, licensed and certified residential drug and alcohol treatment facility. Over time, she established three additional recovery homes.
Today, The Rose of Sharon 7’s recovery residences can collectively accommodate as many as 38 women, including mothers with dependent children. Through this growing network of care, women receive the support needed to pursue long-term recovery, independence, and successful community reintegration.
Recovery That Addresses the Whole Woman
Jackson believes recovery extends far beyond discontinuing the use of drugs or alcohol. Lasting recovery requires women to heal emotionally, transform destructive thinking patterns, strengthen their decision-making abilities, develop practical life skills, and rediscover their identities.
Her approach combines faith-driven service with evidence-based practices.
Jackson facilitates recovery groups that equip women with practical tools for recognizing and confronting addictive behaviors. Participants learn about cognitive restructuring, emotional regulation, behavioral accountability, relapse prevention, and the harmful thinking patterns that can contribute to addiction and criminal behavior.
Faith is also central to the program. Women are introduced to biblical principles that encourage spiritual growth, personal responsibility, hope, and restoration.
At the heart of Jackson’s philosophy is a life-changing message: women must learn to love themselves while learning to hate the disease of addiction.
This distinction helps women separate their identities from their past choices. They are taught that addiction may be part of their history, but it does not have to determine their future.
Education as a Pathway to Independence
Jackson recognizes that housing and treatment alone cannot eliminate the barriers many women face after addiction or incarceration. Education and economic opportunity are essential to breaking cycles of poverty, dependency, and recidivism.
Women who enter the program without a high school diploma are encouraged to return to school and complete their education. Others are motivated to pursue college, professional training, or career credentials.
Jackson wants the women she serves to look beyond securing their next job. She encourages them to pursue sustainable careers that can provide stability, confidence, and a meaningful future for themselves and their children.
Many women who complete the program go on to pursue careers in the recovery field. Some become counselors, mentors, sober coaches, or support professionals. Others return to The Rose of Sharon 7 as staff members, using their lived experiences to guide women who are beginning the same journey.
Their success creates a powerful cycle of empowerment: women who once needed support become leaders capable of supporting others.
Transforming Families and Communities
The impact of Jackson’s work reaches beyond each individual woman.
When a mother achieves stability, her children gain a stronger foundation. When a woman develops healthy coping skills, her family relationships can begin to heal. When a program graduate becomes employed, educated, and self-sufficient, the entire community benefits.
Through this multigenerational approach, The Rose of Sharon 7 helps interrupt cycles of addiction, incarceration, homelessness, and family separation.
Jackson’s influence also extends into civic leadership and regional collaboration. She is an active member of the Hemet/San Jacinto Chamber of Commerce and the Greater San Jacinto Chamber of Commerce, where she works to strengthen relationships between the recovery community and local businesses.
She serves on the HOPE for Hemet committee and participates in the Riverside County Continuum of Care, contributing to coordinated efforts addressing homelessness, housing instability, and access to community resources.
As President of the Riverside County Sober-Living Coalition, Jackson advocates for ethical standards, accountability, and quality care within recovery housing. Her leadership reflects her determination to ensure that vulnerable individuals receive services that protect their dignity and support genuine transformation.
Building a Community of Hope
Jackson’s community service includes partnerships with organizations working to address poverty, homelessness, and family hardship throughout Riverside County.
She collaborates with Girls World and Sheltered Pathways in support of World Homeless Day initiatives, helping bring greater awareness and resources to individuals experiencing housing insecurity.
Jackson also supports the Black Voices of the Valley Thanksgiving Turkey Giveaway and Christmas Toy Giveaway. As a member of its Board of Directors, she helps ensure that families facing financial hardship can experience dignity, generosity, and hope during the holidays and throughout the year.
These partnerships reflect her belief that no single organization can solve complex social challenges alone. Sustainable community change requires nonprofit organizations, businesses, service providers, faith leaders, government agencies, and residents to work together.
A Legacy of Restoration
With multiple certifications, associate and bachelor’s degrees, and two master’s degrees, Jackson brings education, professional preparation, lived understanding, and compassionate leadership to her mission.
Yet her greatest accomplishments cannot be measured only by credentials, titles, or the number of residences she has opened. Her legacy can be seen in the women who have regained their confidence, reunited with their families, returned to school, entered meaningful careers, and discovered that their lives still hold extraordinary purpose.
Through unwavering faith, professional excellence, and servant leadership, Sharon Jackson continues to create pathways from addiction to recovery, from instability to independence, and from brokenness to purpose.
Her work through The Rose of Sharon 7, Inc. is more than a recovery initiative. It is a growing movement of restoration, one woman, one family, and one transformed community at a time.
