Recovery Foundation, Inc.

03/16/2026

We at the Recovery Foundation support people who cannot get the care they want. We provide financial assistance for treatment.

The level of suffering amongst our friends and family is massive. Please help those who cannot effectively help themselves.

https://www.recoveryfoundation.net/

🙏🏾💚💛❤️🖤🧡🩵🫶🏻🌻

03/15/2026

This person has gone quiet lately. They stopped attending our local weekly meetings, where they had become a regular. They haven’t been at work all week. And communication had grown closed-ended, one-worded, and dark-dark-dark.

Then it got worse. Texts from Thursday morning were left unanswered.

Silence loomed.

That is, until today.

Right now it’s Saturday night.

They just reached out.

Oh sure it was ugly. And started off slow. But then it built up. It’s been going on for over an hour now, the texting, and now they’re at home busily working on something legitimately productive, and meaningful to them.

When someone who is near the end of their rope reaches out, it is a gift. It is a spark, it is a magical opportunity. It is a chance for that person to be heard, and seen, tears and heartache and all.

Not to be told what they’re feeling is wrong, and not to be judged or instructed what to do. No, none of that.

But that they are allowed to be where they’re at with their emotions and thoughts. For them to be accepted, supported, then feeling perhaps a slight sense of safety, purpose, and love. That’s what happened tonight, and it is beautiful. ✨

Oh sure we’re not out of the woods here, but maybe we disrupted their cycle, at least for now. Maybe we gained with them one more day, or a month, or a year. But with each day comes possibilities. Sometimes that’s the bulk of what we could hope for: A chance, a break, a breath, and a slight streak of light. Sometimes that is all that we need.
🌻🫶🏾🙏

03/14/2026

Huge shout out to our friend Riley Whelan for being THREE YEARS sober TODAY! 🌻

Famously Riley says, “Sobriety delivers everything that alcohol promised”.

03/14/2026

You CAN do it!

I believe in you.

🙏🏾🖤💚❤️💛🤎🩷🩵🫶

03/12/2026

Much of our human hardship comes down to the great disconnect, meaning both when we separate from ourselves, and when we detach from others.

The criticalness of human togetherness not only keeps us alive, but gifts us with an unexplainable awe we cannot experience by our solo single one selves.

Sometimes it’s hard to ignore the lies in our head though, you know what I mean, it’s hard to ignore the self-defeating talk. Sometimes it’s quite hard to put faith in our own capabilities. And well, sometimes it’s hard to even believe we’re gonna make it.

Yet when coming to locate the truth of the matter, we learn there are no limits to our abilities. There are no boundaries for the forgiveness we can practice with ourselves, and with others around us. And likely at the center of it all is the safety and love we find through our connection with each other. When then rejoining the community of humanhood, magical things happen.

Recently connecting with the supremely amazing Mister Anthony Cooper Sr., he reminded me of our responsibility to show up for each other. Anthony Cooper Sr. is the founder and CEO of Focused Interruption, a multi-faceted organization that is making our neighborhoods safer, and saving lives. Using street-level involvement, Anthony is leading the charge to reduce the malice, and more specifically the gun violence in southern Wisconsin. By way of his lived experience while incarcerated Anthony not only holds the street cred, he also operates as a compassionate and mindful leader making lasting positive change.

Graciously Anthony went out of his way to parlay with me, Recovery Foundation’s Executive Director Roger Ray Bird over pizza. Strategically we are addressing much of the same challenges: The trauma suffered by our youth that often leads to mental health and substance use disorders.

Besides feeling privileged to be alive when so many are not, and extremely thankful to be doing this critical work, I am also honored to have connected with Mister Anthony Cooper Sr. on such a deep emotional level. I cannot wait to see what the future holds for us all. 🫶🏾💙🙏

03/06/2026

If seeking treatment for mental health or substance use disorders, Recovery.com links to tens of thousands of providers sorted by geographic region, type of affliction, and type of insurance. https://recovery.com

If looking for recovery events like walking, hiking, biking, fitness, or art activities, The Phoenix is a national organization with hundreds of weekly gatherings, both in person and virtual. https://thephoenix.org/

If exploring recovery support meetings in your area, check out the comprehensive “Meeting Finder” at Alcohol.org. Meeting Finder connects with AA, NA, codependents, eating, refuge, family groups and more. https://alcohol.org/meeting-finder/

988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline is the national su***de and crisis hotline.

Please look out for each other and share this around. 🌻

02/24/2026

MADISON, WI, February 23, 2026 Recovery.com, the leading global platform to find mental health and addiction treatment, today announced a partnership with the Recovery Foundation, a Madison-based nonprofit dedicated to eliminating financial barriers to recovery by providing scholarships for mental health and addiction treatment and recovery housing.

The partnership aims to scale access to critical recovery support, particularly access to recovery housing, where financial gaps often prevent individuals from sustaining long-term recovery after leaving clinical care.

“Recovery is possible when people have the right support at the right time. Our partnership with the Recovery Foundation is about expanding that support, so more people can build lasting recovery without financial barriers standing in the way,” said Ben Camp, CEO and Co-Founder of Recovery.com, which committed funding to the Recovery Foundation to hire their first Executive Director.

Recovery.com’s national reach, marketing and technology infrastructure, and funding commitment will help expand the Recovery Foundation’s historically Wisconsin-focused scholarship model.

The Recovery Foundation, which will share office space at the Recovery.com headquarters in Madison, has appointed Roger Ray Bird as its first-ever Executive Director to help scale the organization nationally.

Bird, a peer support specialist in long-term recovery, brings a unique blend of lived and professional experience to the position, including 20 years as a business executive, the launch of two nonprofit organizations, and a career as a professional athlete. In his new role, he will focus on expanding the reach of the foundation nationally through fundraising and increasing awareness of the scholarships.

“The Foundation role is my dream job,” said Bird. “I’m now able to use all my life experiences to help change the world, one person at a time.”

To learn more about the partnership or contribute to the organization, please visit the Recovery Foundation or to find treatment options, please visit Recovery.com.

About Recovery.com
Founded in 2017, Recovery.com is the leading global platform for finding trusted mental health and addiction treatment. Each month, millions of people engage with us across our websites and social media platforms to search 20,000+ providers, compare treatment center details and reviews, read helpful recovery resources, interact with community content, and connect directly with the right treatment for them. We list all treatment options on our care navigation websites at no cost, while providing an ethical, best-in-class advertising platform for addiction treatment and mental health providers. Learn more at Recovery.com.

About The Recovery Foundation
The Recovery Foundation, Inc., founded in 2009 by Shelly Dutch, is a non-profit organization that supports individuals through their substance abuse and mental health recovery by providing them with Treatment Scholarships, to encourage the difficult transition to the evidence-based practice of recovery housing.

https://recovery.com/news/recovery-partners-with-recovery-foundation/

Recovery.com partners with the Recovery Foundation to expand scholarships for treatment and recovery housing, increasing access to long-term recovery...

02/24/2026

A powerful realization.

02/20/2026

We have the most amazing team of people here at the Recovery Foundation! 🌻

Board member Mary Schneider is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Kinesiology (Occupational Therapy Program) and Psychology, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focused on the effects of prenatal alcohol and/or prenatal stress exposure on neurobehavioral development and brain function. Her current work uses state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques to examine neuro adaptational brain changes in neurotransmitter function after chronic alcohol consumption. Mary has been a grateful member of Al-anon for over 30 years, also facilitating al-anon meetings at the Dane County Jail. She also facilitates alateen meetings, ans has given presentations over the years on the role of the family in adolescent substance abuse recovery.

Here is a recent article published in The Journal of Neuroscience that Mary wrote along with a team of other brilliant people.

Given the prevalence of alcohol use and stress during pregnancy, we examined the effects in offspring of prenatal alcohol and stress on the dopamine system and drinking behavior in a primate model. In a 20-year prospective longitudinal experiment, we studied alcohol-naive adult rhesus monkeys of bot...

02/19/2026

Sharing resources matters.

Let someone you care about know they can call, text, or chat 988 anytime they need support.

02/19/2026

We can all contribute to breaking the stigma.
We are all people first 🖤

Check out more from John Hopkins at https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

06/25/2025

Please Join Us for the 2025 Wisconsin Recovers Golf Tournament! ⛳️
Presented by Madison Recovery Center, Recovery.com, and the Recovery Foundation

Date: Monday, August 25, 2025

This incredible day of golf is more than just a game—it’s a chance to give back. All proceeds go to the Recovery Foundation, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit providing financial support to those in recovery.

🔗 REGISTER NOW: wisconsinrecovers.com