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Belonging and healing start here—because community is where recovery takes root.

Recovery Café Longmont is more than just a place.

We’re a healing community built on love, dignity, and second chances.

Nestled in the heart of downtown Longmont, RCL provides a safe, stable, and supportive environment for individuals navigating recovery from substance use, mental health challenges, trauma, and other life transitions.

Our mission is simple yet powerful: to be a refuge of healing for people in recovery.

Recovery isn’t just 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, community meals, and classes in our School for Recovery, individuals gain the tools, confidence, and relationships they need to rebuild their lives.

Belonging is at the heart of healing. We believe that when people are surrounded by care, accountability, and genuine human connection, lasting recovery becomes possible. Because every cup of coffee shared, every circle formed, and every story told strengthens the fabric of our community.

“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 is built on a simple truth: every person is worthy of love and belonging.

Our Café provides a warm, substance-free community where people can rebuild their lives surrounded by care, consistency, and connection.

The Recovery Café Model

Unlike traditional crisis-based systems, our model offers long-term support—meeting people where they are and walking beside them as they find stability, purpose, and hope.

Members have access to community meals, peer support, classes, and resources that strengthen every area of life, like housing, health, and employment.

At its core, the Recovery Café model reflects a holistic, person-centered approach that empowers people to manage their health and live meaningful lives. Through community, we reduce isolation, prevent crises, and promote lifelong recovery.

We believe recovery thrives in connection. Every person has something to give, and every act of care ripples outward.

Recovery Café Longmont is proud to be part of the Recovery Café Network.

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—one that requires 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.

Who We Serve

At Recovery Café Longmont, we believe everyone is in recovery from something.

Five people sit around a wooden table sharing food and conversation at Recovery Café Longmont. A colorful pride flag hangs on the wall behind them.

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.

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