To enhance the availability and accessibility of evidence-based recovery support that all who live with substance use and/or co-occuring mental health disorder challenges are entitled to, our focus is on:

• Building strong, grassroots recovery community organizations (RCOs) and linking these RCOs into a national movement to develop recovery leaders,

• Offering opportunities for the recovery community—people in recovery, family members, friends, and allies—to express their collective voice on issues of common concern,

• Responding to community-identified recovery support needs, and

• Providing a forum for recovery-focused community service.

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​By actively cultivating and building collaborative partnerships with our local and national partners, we accomplish these goals by:

• Advocating for meaningful representation and voice for people in recovery and their families at local, state, and federal policy levels on issues that affect their lives.

• Assessing and responding to national and local needs related to the adequacy and quality of local treatment and recovery support services.

• Educating the public, policymakers, and service providers about the prevalence, pathways, and styles of long-term addiction recovery.

• Developing human and fiscal resources by expanding philanthropic and public support for addiction treatment, recovery support services, and recovery advocacy and by cultivating volunteerism within local communities of recovery.

• Creating recovery community centers that make recovery visible on Main Street and provide a setting for the delivery of non-clinical, peer-based recovery support services, supports, and activities.

• Celebrating recovery from addiction through public recovery celebration events (e.g., marches, rallies, concerts) that offer living proof of the transformative power of recovery.

• Supporting research that illuminates the pathways, processes, stages, and styles of long-term personal/family recovery.​