Recovery Café Indy

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Recovery Café Indy

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907 N Delaware St, Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone (317) 772 - 0102
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Our mission

Our mission is to support development of the mind, body and spirit of individuals desiring recovery. By creating a community committed to love, support, equality, and inclusion, we will provide an environment that will support recovery.
Opportunities

Teach a Class in our School For Recovery!

Teach a class to our Members: Do you have a skill, hobby, or talent that you would like to teach others?*The School for Recovery gives Café members and non-members the chance to grow, heal, discover, take risks, and surprise themselves by doing and becoming what they never thought possible. While the word “recovery” doesn’t appear in most of the course titles, every single class is designed to provide support, wisdom, and companions for the hard work of making healthier choices as we live with whatever it is we are recovering from. * We do require that School for Recovery facilitators spend at least 25 hours in the café (serving as a Café Companion) prior to working on a class proposal. This will ensure that facilitators understand the café model and have a chance to meet our Members & Guests!The School for Recovery desires to offer classes to holistically support the journeys of each member at the Recovery Cafe.Class topics can range from health/wellness, nutrition, yoga, spirituality, job/career preparation, healthy relationships, relapse prevention and more!
  • One-time, Occasional, Weekly, Monthly
  • Adults
  • Individuals, Groups (10+)
  • Virtual, Physical, Indoor
  • On-site
  • Weekdays, Evenings, Weekends

Plan and Lead a Sober Social Event with our Members!

Plan and Lead a Sober Social Event with our Members: Bring your creativity & pose your idea for an event to have safe, clean fun with our members!*The goal of recovery from substance abuse is to move anyone from being an active user to having a healthy life in sobriety. Some may not know or recall how to live a life that does not include drug. or alcohol use. So participating in fun, sober activities allows our members to have a rich, full life and fills up the time that used to be spent feeding any addiction.* We do require that Sober Social Event facilitators spend at least 25 hours in the café (serving as a Café Companion) prior to working on an event proposal. This will ensure that facilitators understand the café model and have a chance to meet our Members & Guests!We’d invite you to first join our Event Planning Committee which meets the third Wednesday of each month (or the week directly following our Monthly Sober Social Event).Examples of past events include but are not limited to: open mic event, ballroom dancing, game night, ice cream social, BBQ, craft night, movie night, and trivia night!
  • One-time, Occasional, Weekly, Monthly
  • Adults
  • Individuals, Groups (10+)
  • Physical, Indoor, Outdoor
  • On-site
  • Weekdays, Evenings, Weekends

Cafe Companion

Serve as a Café Companion: Be a friend to our local community members by serving as a Café Companion!This role allows you to connect individually with members and guests in the Recovery Café space. This is an essential role in providing the loving, hospitable space that makes the Recovery Café such a unique and positive place. Listening and caring is the way love shines through. During your visit, you will often sit and talk and you may play games, cards, read, share stories, or conduct various tasks. Training is required to serve in this role. After registering, you will be asked to attend our volunteer training to learn more about this important role at Recovery Café!
  • Occasional, Weekly, Monthly
  • Adults
  • Individuals
  • Indoor
  • On-site
  • Weekdays, Weekends

Resources Assistant

Provide Community Connections & Recovery Resources: One of our key goals is to provide a growing awareness of Recovery Café in the community.​We need help in connecting to community providers, recovery resources, members of the Café, supporters, and funders of the Café.​Duties in this role may include but are not limited to booth and community outreach, story gathering and/or photography, or tabling certain events to share the story of the Recovery Café.
  • One-time, Occasional, Weekly, Monthly
  • Adults
  • Individuals, Groups (10+)
  • Indoor
  • On-site
  • Weekdays, Evenings, Weekends
How you help

As Recovery Café Indy is an emerging nonprofit in the Indianapolis area, we are largely reliant on volunteer support and time to build upon our current capacity. The largest engagement method we would rely on a new volunteer is in utilizing their time and energy in the café space and engaging directly with our members. We believe in the power of relationships and know the transformation it can make for an individual who is experiencing recovery – this is beneficial for both our Members, and community volunteers.
About us

What is Recovery Café Indy? Recovery Café Indy is a membership-based peer recovery support program founded on the certain belief that every human being is worthy of love and connection regardless of past trauma, mental and emotional anguish, addictive behaviors or mistakes made. Recovery Café Indy is an initiative of We Bloom, a nonprofit organization inspired by the belief that every member of a community can thrive when given access to resources and knowledge, adapted to their environment.Our goal at Recovery Café Indy is to create a loving community in which our members gain access to resources, peer support, education, and learn to connect with the love of themselves and others. The model’s power is generated by its holistic and inclusive approach to recovery, with an emphasis on connection to self, others, identities, and resources. It is a safe, healing refuge for those recovering from substance use, mental health challenges, trauma, and homelessness. All pathways to recovery are welcomed whether that be faith-based, therapy-focused, 12-step, medical assisted recovery or on an individual, solo journey. Through our work, we prevent individuals from another potentially life-ending crisis, saving taxpayer money in emergency intervention to help them stabilize, and allowing mental health and addiction support professionals to focus on health maintenance and substance use prevention. To learn more please visit our website at www.recoverycafeindy.org or follow us on Facebook at Recovery Café Indy. Please feel free to reach out with any questions and we so appreciate your time in building community!