Recovery Café was founded in Seattle as the first-of-its-kind membership-based healing community of belonging for individuals experiencing trauma and the results of trauma like homelessness, substance use disorder and other mental health challenges. Members are welcomed into a beautiful, safe, drug- and alcohol-free space where they experience being deeply known and loved. Loving accountability and opportunities to grow and contribute help sustain long-term recovery needed to gain and maintain access to housing, social and health services, healthy relationships, education, and employment.
In response to many requests from groups for help in replicating our model, we created the Recovery Café Network in 2016. An important element of the model is creating authentic healthy connection. Through a cohort learning approach, RCN provides groups with mentorship, materials, and facilitated learning experiences to create a Recovery Café. Each Café is an independent organization connected to RCN through shared commitments to the Network’s Guiding Principles and Core Commitments. Each Café embodies the Recovery Café Model in their own community resulting in transformed lives and more hope-filled communities. Today, there are more than 70 Recovery Cafés across the United States and one in Canada.
