Recovery Café DC provides the kind of resources and relationships that provide stability and healing. We recognize that recovery is at the root of both preventing and ending homelessness. For those who have successfully transitioned from the streets, the long-term support and loving community provided by the Cafe is crucial to remaining housed and sober.
Membership is free, and open to all. The requirements for membership are:
- Be drug and alcohol free in the community space
- Participate in a weekly Recovery Circle
- Participate in community service at the Café
Recovery Circles – small weekly peer support and accountability groups – form the basis of our program. Through the Circles, each member comes to be deeply known and supported by at least one staff member or volunteer facilitator.
Recovery Circles promote healing through:
- Teaching accountability
- The giving and receiving of respectful feedback and gentle reminders of the primary goal of healthier living
- Preventing relapse through the identification of triggers or high-risk situations for relapse
- Promoting the development of skills for avoiding drugs and alcohol and building alternative social and recreational opportunities
- Supporting participants as they live through the symptoms of mental illness and connecting them to resources that assist with the treatment
School for Recovery courses go in-depth into topics of recovery/addiction, life skills, inner healing, and healthy living. Past topics have included:
Be Your Best Self
Financial Management
Women’s Walking Group
Membership Benefits
Membership at Recovery Café DC is a great opportunity to find stability in what can sometimes be a difficult journey. Members have access to many tools and benefits while active at Recovery Café DC, including:
- Community Meals frame each day and there’s always plenty of coffee.
- A Recovery Circle in which you experience being known and loved.
- Referrals and assistance with community resources and connections to partner agencies
- Job Skills Training Opportunities (Planned for once we’re in the new building) Our brand-new commercial kitchen and new coffee/espresso bar will present opportunities for members to train alongside our expert chefs and baristas. Through this training members:
- Build their skills and self-esteem
- Receive one-on-one career coaching and resume/interview assistance along with learning barista/kitchen skills
- Have opportunities to give back to the community through taking a Latte Hour shift serving their fellow members
- Earn their ServSafe certification; a first step toward work in the food industry
- A supportive, healing community of individuals in recovery from homelessness, addiction, trauma, and other mental health challenges;
