Help create a place where recovery, community and new beginnings can flourish.
Recovery doesn't happen in isolation.
It happens when people find connection. When they discover hope in someone else's story. When they walk through a door and realize they belong.
For years, Community Recovery Alliance (CRA) has worked to ensure that people across Northern Michigan have access to peer support, recovery resources, and a welcoming recovery community. Every day, we witness lives transformed when individuals find the support, encouragement, and opportunities they need to build meaningful lives in recovery.
Today, we have an opportunity to create something lasting.
Through our Building Roots of Recovery campaign, CRA is raising funds to establish a permanent Recovery Community Center for Northern Michigan. After unexpectedly losing our previous location, we were presented with a rare opportunity: the chance to purchase a building and create a permanent home for recovery in our community.
This project reflects how CRA operates in practice - responding to real community need, adapting quickly when circumstances change, and acting on opportunities that strengthen long-term recovery infrastructure.
This will be more than a building.
It will be a place of belonging. A community of recovery.
A place where someone attending their first recovery meeting feels welcomed. Where families find support and education. Where people in recovery can build friendships, develop leadership skills, access resources, and discover new opportunities. A place where community members can gather, learn, and help reduce the stigma that too often prevents people from seeking help.
The new center will create a stable, accessible, and visible recovery hub that strengthens the entire recovery ecosystem across Northern Michigan.
Most importantly, this center will belong to the recovery community.
Every brick, every room, and every conversation that takes place inside will be made possible by people who believe recovery matters. By individuals, families, businesses, foundations, and community partners who understand that recovery changes lives and strengthens communities.
Community Recovery Alliance is governed by the recovery community itself, ensuring this space remains rooted in the voices, experiences, and leadership of the people it serves.
We invite you to help complete Northern Michigan's permanent Recovery Community Center.
We have raised $305,000 for this project. We are $95,000 away from finishing what our community started together. Your gift at any level - whether $500, $5,000, or more - will help complete construction and ensure this center opens fully equipped to serve the people who need it most.
To make a gift or learn more about the opportunities, please contact Caitlin Koucky at caitlin@crami.org or 231.881.9116.
Every contribution, at every level, is a root planted in Northern Michigan's recovery future.