Who Are We?

Recovery Café Profiles
Recovery Cafés are communities. We’re local people who have lived with and beside addiction, homelessness, mental illness, and other life challenges. We’re people who care about one another. We’re people who are learning to know ourselves as loved. We’re your neighbors.

The Recovery Café model began in Seattle and has been acclaimed nationally for its unique success at anchoring people in sustained, healthy recovery. The Recovery Café Network continues to grow and there are now more than a dozen Recovery Cafés from coast to coast and in between.
A lot of practical work goes on at the Recovery Café. We provide tools and guidance so that Members can access housing, education, employment, and social and health services. We learn together how to create and sustain healthy relationships.

At the Café we welcome people wherever they are on their journeys, recognizing that there’s a wide spectrum of care and honoring multiple pathways to recovery.  We emphasize both short and long term management of mental and physical health, which could explain why so many Recovery Café Members around the USA have been able to maintain long-term sobriety.

Believing that belonging to strong communities is essential to full living, we work to form lasting bonds. We celebrate as individuals reclaim their lives and see themselves as worthy of giving and receiving love.

What Do We Do?

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE IN THE RECOVERY CAFÉ?
The Recovery Café works because it’s a lived expression of the belief that every life has value; if you believe this, you have a role to play here, whether as a Member or as a Community Volunteer.


Membership
As in healthy families, every Member is valued and every Member is expected to do their part. Members commit to:
  1. Having 24 hours drug-and-alcohol-free when they come through the door
  2. Participating in one Recovery Circle per week
  3. Give Back to the community​​​
Community Volunteer
There are many opportunities to volunteer including:
  • Cafe Companion
  • Recovery Circle Facilitator
  • School for Recovery
  • Sharing professional services
  • Assisting with social activities
  • Kitchen Help
  • Administrative Assistance
  • Fundraising/Events
  • Maintenance/Repair
  • Landscaping & Gardening​
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
Join as a Member
- Every Member attends a New Member Introduction meeting before joining (see calendar below). To get started, you can fill out our New Member Enrollment form here or contact us below with questions. 

Become a Volunteer
- Register here to join us at our monthly volunteer training, held every third Friday of the month via Zoom from 10am-11:30am
- You can view recordings of past volunteer trainings here
​- Inquire below to discuss your interests further or schedule a Volunteer Orientation
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Donate
- Please consider donating below or by sending a check to Dove House at 1045 10th Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 with “Recovery Café” in the memo line. If you have other items to donate, please contact us at developmentrc@dovehousejc.org or 360-385-5292
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DOVE HOUSE & RECOVERY CAFÉ NETWORK
Recovery Café Jefferson County is a program of Dove House Advocacy Services, a non-profit organization serving Jefferson County, WA. We are an Emerging Member of the Recovery Café Network, a cohort learning model providing mentorship, materials, expertise, and facilitated learning experiences for groups seeking to start recovery communities based on the Recovery Café model.

​As an Emerging Member, we receive training and support from the Network to start programming, build recovery capital in our community, and prepare to become certified as a Full Member of the Network. Full Recovery Café Network Members are granted a Recovery Café Network license to operate a Recovery Café in their community.
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF THE RECOVERY CAFE NETWORK:

To create a community in which all are valued, we will strive to:
- Connect with divine Love in ourselves and others
- Show respect
- Cultivate compassion
- Practice forgiveness
- Encourage growth
- Give Back 

Photographs

Before & After Remodeling
Before/After
People of Recovery Cafe Jefferson County
Recovery Coach Training

Recovery Cafe open in Port Townsend

From Peninsula Daily News - April 27, 2021

Nonprofits ramp up outreach​

From Peninsula Daily News - November 15, 2020

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Your support means the world to our Members
Contact Us

360-385-5292
developmentrc@dovehousejc.org

​Physical address:
​939 Kearney Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368

Mailing address:
1045 10th St, Port Townsend, WA 98368