Welcome to Recovery Café Greensboro!

Recovery Café Greensboro is an inclusive environment and welcomes people regardless of age, ability, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, indigenous heritage, gender identity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and life experience.

Recovery Café Greensboro is founded on the belief that every human being is worthy and lovable regardless of past trauma, mental and emotional anguish, substance use disorder or human errors. RCG is another avenue to recovery in addition to traditional treatment programs and self-help groups. RCG also serves as a bridge to help members establish recovery, maintain their stability, reduce relapse, and fulfill their human potential.

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Elements of our work include:

• Radical Hospitality: We put extraordinary effort and emphasis on making people feel welcomed and remembered.

• Recovery Circles: Small peer-support circles that meet at the same time each week to share challenges and successes, give and receive feedback, and to become deeply known.

• Community Meals: Homemade soup, salad, and bread to nurture our members.

• Classes: Allow for education, exploration of something new, and healing: art, book studies, relapse prevention, yoga, meditation, creative writing.

• Service Work: The Café belongs to the community members. To give back, and be a part of, all members contribute to service work at the Café, be it walking with a member to a doctor’s appointment or mopping the floor at the end of the day.

• Recovery Coaching: Recovery Coaching is a huge part of our community. Treating people as resources is what we do!

• Peer Support: Staff are selected and trained to be Peer Support Specialists. The Café will stive to create paths for member to become Peers and Peer Leaders.

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