We are a community of refuge and healing to support people in recovery.
Recovery Café Longmont was founded on the knowledge that the life of every human being is worthy of love and respect.
Recovery Café Longmont was founded on the knowledge that the life of every human being is worthy of love and respect.
We are a community of refuge and healing for people in recovery.
To be an enlightened community where people in all walks of recovery are empowered to be their best selves.
Our Values
Radical Hospitality is our act of gracious, warm, and enduring welcome of all people to ensure a feeling of love and support within our community.
Holding each other accountable to becoming our truest, best selves is the most loving thing we can do for each other.
We promote lifelong focus on empowering people to reach their full potential and maintain healthy life habits.
We responsibly manage resources to honor and serve our stakeholders and deepen our impact in the community.
Individuals from all backgrounds are valued and embraced with compassion, mutual respect, and dignity.
Our Challenge
Across the country, the need for substance-use and mental-health services keeps rising. In 2024, national data showed that 48.4 million people had a substance use disorder. At the same time, more than 86 million adults experienced either a substance-use disorder or a diagnosable mental illness.
Recent surveys show that about one in five Coloradans report regular loneliness. In addition, more than one in four residents experienced poor mental health in the past month. Colorado also continues to see high overdose rates, with 20.5 opioid-related deaths per 100,000 residents in 2024.
Low-income or unhoused individuals feel these challenges even more intensely. Many lose access to housing, employment, and essential care. However, sustained recovery supported by community can ease the burden of finding and keeping vital resources.
Treatment in Colorado remains limited and costly, especially for people who are underinsured or uninsured. Nearly 100,000 adults statewide went without needed treatment for alcohol or drug use in recent years. Even when treatment is available, relapse remains common. Recovery is a lifelong journey, not a 30-day program. So where does someone go on day 31?
Rebuilding a healthy life takes time. Strong support, consistency, and connection matter. Research shows that long-term recovery becomes more stable after sustained years of support.
We walk with people through the months and years after treatment. We help individuals rebuild their lives and break harmful cycles.
Even so, connection remains powerful. One relationship at a time, Recovery Café Longmont helps people strengthen the recovery they worked so hard to build. We offer community, accountability, and skill-building so individuals in every stage of recovery can feel empowered to become their best selves.
Our History
In 2018, CENTRALongmont Presbyterian Church leadership became aware of the need for a place where individuals in recovery from various recovery challenges could find support, acceptance, and radical hospitality. This led them to the Recovery Café Network, developed from the remarkable success of Recovery Café, founded by Killian Noe in Seattle, Washington. The Network partners with individuals who feel called to establish a Recovery Café in their own communities.
Thus, Recovery Café Longmont was born in 2019.
The church—which partnered in founding St. Vrain Manor, income-based apartments for seniors, and the OUR Center, which has helped meet basic life needs of some of the area’s most vulnerable residents—has a long history of identifying unmet needs in the community and partnering with others to put solutions in place.
Although CENTRALongmont Presbyterian Church was the impetus to establish Recovery Café Longmont with its temporary location in the Church basement, the Café is its own separate entity and we are not a faith-based organization.