HomeMy WebLinkAboutRECOVERY CAFE Presentation 9.3.2019Recovery Café Jefferson County
Our Mission
At Recovery Café Jefferson
County, we will foster a safe
and supportive community of
mutual respect and
accountability where
everyone experiences love,
belonging, healing, and the
joy of contributing
Our Values
We believe that every human
being is worthy of love
We believe that meaningful
belonging to a community is
essential to being human
What is
Recovery Café?
•Recovery Café is a beautiful, safe,
warm, drug-and-alcohol-free
community
•Where Café Members recover
from domestic violence,
addiction, mental illness,
homelessness, trauma, and other
life challenges
Who is served at Recovery Café?
•Life is difficult, even under the best of circumstances. We are all
recovering from something at some point in our lives!
•Victims of intimate partner violence experience disproportionate
rates of substance abuse at 2-6x higher than the general population;
rates of PTSD, major depressive disorder, and self-injury is 3x higher;
and suicide attempts is 4x higher (SAMHSA, 2017)
•Furthermore, the largest subpopulation of homeless persons in
Washington State in 2016 was victims of domestic violence (HUD,
2016)
What problem does this solve?
•Need for love and connection that we ALL
have
•Our most vulnerable community members
cycle between emergency rooms,
incarceration, and homelessness
•Fills in the gap where deinstitutionalization
and the War on Drugs has failed
Data shows treatment works. And help exists.
However…
•Over 92% of those with a substance use disorder did
not receive treatment (SAMHSA, 2019)
There are barriers to
accessing treatment
•Inadequate long-term support
Addiction and mental illness
are chronic conditions
treated with acute medical
care
•18.7 million people suffer from addiction in the U.S.
•AA membership is 2 million
Self-help meetings save lives
but they’re not for everyone
Impact in
Jefferson
County
•187 people experienced
homelessness in 2017
•2,157 adults with
substance use disorder
•974 adults with serious
mental illness
Jefferson Co. Vulnerable Population Estimates
(Kitsap Public Health, Jan 2019)
Cost
•Average annual cost per individual in jail:
$47,057
•Average cost of overnight ER visit: $1,233
•Average cost of ambulance transport:
$1,640
1-Vera Institute of Justice (2019)
2-Kliff, S. Washington Post (2013)
3-Consumer Reports (2016)
How does Recovery Café address the
problem?
2017 Seattle Member Survey:
•90% of their Members reported that
Recovery Café helped them find recovery
•97% reported RC helped them maintain
recovery
•85% reported that Recovery Café helped
prevent relapse
•92% identified Recovery Café helped
improve mental health
•95% increased their amount of hope
Recovery Café
Model
•Recovery Community Center
•Membership-based model
1)24 hours of sobriety
2)Attend one Recovery Circle
per week
3)Give back to the Recovery
Café community
What
happens
at
Recovery
Café?
HEALING
ENVIRONMENT
WHICH
FOSTERS HOPE
FREE MEALS &
COFFEE
RECOVERY
CIRCLES
CLASSES IN THE
SCHOOL FOR
RECOVERY
SOCIAL
ACTIVITIES
OUTSIDE
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES
REFERRALS TO
COMMUNITY
RESOURCES
OUTSIDE SELF-
HELP SUPPORT
GROUPS
Our
Progress
•Purchased the property at 939
Kearney St in Port Townsend
through grant funding and
cash reserves. Closed on July
8th, 2019.
•Remodeling: Architect,
contractor, engineers design
•Board of Directors approved
remodeling budget
•Submitting building permits
with city for remodeling this
week
Our
Progress
•Outreach to Food Banks, Warming
Center, Chaplain’s Lunch (Kah Tai
Lagoon), treatment centers
•Recruited 7 person Advisory
Committee
•14 Volunteer clean-up days, 46
volunteers (80% in recovery),
169.75 hours of volunteer labor
for site prep, e-mail list of 466
•5 trained Recovery Coaches
•Raised $100,000 in capital grant
funding, $20,000 operating grants,
$18,863 private donations
•Staff/volunteer Recovery Circle
begins 9/4
•Wellbriety meeting begins 9/13