Learn About Recovery
We are more than just a place.
Instead, we are a healing community rooted in love, dignity, and second chances.
Our mission is simple yet powerful: to serve as a refuge of healing for people in recovery.
Here in the heart of downtown Longmont, RCL creates a safe, stable, and supportive environment where people navigate recovery from substance use, mental health challenges, trauma, and other life transitions.
Recovery isn’t a one-time decision — it’s a lifelong journey. At Recovery Café Longmont, we walk alongside our members every step of the way. Through peer support, shared meals, and classes in our School for Recovery, people build tools, grow confidence, and form relationships that help them rebuild their lives.
Most importantly, belonging sits at the heart of healing. We know that when people experience care, accountability, and real human connection, lasting recovery takes root. With every cup of coffee we share, every circle we form, and every story we hold, we strengthen the fabric of our community.
It begins with belonging.
“To be known without being loved is terrifying. To be loved without being known has no power to change us. But to be deeply known and deeply loved transforms us. The most basic need of every human being is to love and receive love.”
K. Killian Noe, Founder of Recovery Café
Recovery Café Longmont stands on a simple truth: every person deserves love and belonging.
We offer a warm, substance-free community where people rebuild their lives surrounded by care, consistency, and connection.
The Recovery Café Model
Rather than relying on short-term, crisis-based systems, our model focuses on long-term support. We meet people where they are and walk beside them as they build stability, purpose, and hope.
Through community meals, peer support, classes, and resources, members strengthen every area of life, including housing, health, and employment.
At its core, the Recovery Café model embraces a holistic, person-centered approach that empowers people to manage their health and live meaningful lives. Through community, we reduce isolation, prevent crises, and support lifelong recovery.
Above all, we believe recovery thrives in connection. Every person brings value, and every act of care creates a ripple effect.
Recovery Café Longmont proudly stands as part of the Recovery Café Network.
Peer support is an evidence-based approach that plays a critical role in many recovery journeys.
Recovery Café Longmont helps members rebuild their lives while gaining holistic tools to support one another. As a result, peer-to-peer connection serves as one of the most powerful drivers of recovery at the Café.
To support this work, our team includes trained peer support specialists. These specialists bring lived experience with substance and/or alcohol use disorder, mental health challenges, and trauma. They draw on that experience to guide others through the recovery process.
It’s Different When Someone Has Been There
Through this support, our specialists help members connect to community resources, build recovery-focused skills, and strengthen self-advocacy.
To connect with a peer support specialist, email Program Manager Chris Poma or call 720-815-2885. Peer support is available in English and Spanish.
For Spanish-language support, contact Bilingual Program Manager Kristina Garcia.
Peer Support: Where Lived Experience Leads
Who We Serve
Welcome to inclusive community.
Whether you’re healing from substance or alcohol use, mental health challenges, trauma, grief, or isolation—there’s a place for you here. Our doors are open to anyone seeking stability, connection, and hope.
We provide multiple pathways to recovery in a safe, compassionate environment that encourages personal growth and belonging. The Café hosts peer-led support groups including Alcoholics Anonymous, SMART Recovery, and Parents of Addicted Loved-Ones (PAL), alongside opportunities for connection through classes, shared meals, and community gatherings.
At the heart of our work is one core belief: recovery happens through relationships. Within our loving community, members find peer support, educational opportunities, and accountability—all grounded in respect and care.
Because healing isn’t something you have to do alone.
What We Are Not
Recovery Café Longmont is not a treatment program.
It’s a healing community that complements the work of treatment and therapy. We operate within a substance use, alcohol use, and mental health recovery framework, partnering closely with treatment providers to ensure our members have the long-term support they need to thrive.
Many of our members are already engaged in professional treatment. At the Café, they find a stable, welcoming environment that helps them stay grounded in recovery—because here, they’re surrounded by people who understand, encourage, and walk alongside them.
Recovery Café Longmont is more than a drop-in center. We practice radical hospitality, welcoming every person with dignity and compassion. The other side of that coin is loving accountability; we encourage each visitor to become a consistent, contributing member of our community.
Because recovery doesn’t end after 30 days – it’s a lifelong journey, requiring connection, belonging, and ongoing care. At Recovery Café Longmont, we provide the community you can come back to on day 31, and every day after.
Join a community that’s healing—together.
Our vision is to be an enlightened community where individuals in recovery are empowered to become the best version of themselves.
Take the first step today.
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Recovery Circle
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