Recovery Cafe Committee
The justice cafe is dedicated to creating safe and sober events for folks in Newark’s recovery community.
Coming Together to End Stigma
Community
Recovery is not a solitary process. When we come into recovery, we feel utterly alone even in a crowd of people. In recovery, we learn to trust and to love. In community we discover that we never were really alone. Only through helping and allowing others to help us, can we begin to build a healthier, happier, and more equitable society.
Creativity
To create is to express yourself, who you are, and how you feel. But creativity also allows us to discover new aspects of ourselves. The creative arts should be available to everyone, no matter their age, economic status, or past experience with education. We believe that art is crucial to our recovery as well as to our more general well-being and the health of our society.
Recovery
While our primary focus is on helping people in recovery for drug and alcohol addiction, we also realize that many of us suffer from behaviors and thought patterns that keep us from our full potential. We believe that addiction affects everyone and that everyone can benefit from a program that focuses on positive action, love, and trust.
Whether we are addicted to opioids or the idea that profits should come before people, we can learn to live, one day at a time, better and more creative lives, and a healthier, happier way of being in the world.