O U R Place Open United Recovery

12/31/2025

Sober Sparkle: Family Friendly New Year's Eve is READY! 🎉✨

We’ve got plenty of food, treats, and prizes all set for our Family-Friendly New Year’s Eve celebration! 🥪🍪🎁

⚠️ Roads are a bit slick tonight, so please drive carefully if you’re heading out to join us. Safety first - Drive slow! (We aren’t going anywhere so no worries about being late!)

And honestly… with this much goodness, we may just have to do a Round Two celebration on Saturday! 😄

We can’t wait to ring in the New Year together… community, laughs and famiy fun💫💖

12/28/2025

🧘🏼YOGA is Canceled for today!🚨
Come back next Sunday at 6 for regularly scheduled Beginner Centered Restorative Yoga! Thanks for understanding & HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎆

12/28/2025

✨ More magic from Santa Night at OUR Place Lights, Camera…. ✨📸

Each year these fun fantasy portraits captured by Tom (Thank you Tom!) are such a special part of our Santa Night tradition. More than just entertaining photos, they’re keepsakes, memories, and a little bit of seasonal magic for families who deserve all the love in the Universe.

Santa Night wouldn’t happen without an incredible team behind it, and I want to take a moment to recognize the people who show up and make it all possible:

🎄 Special shout-out to Janice for absolutely crushing it and holding so many moving pieces together.
🎄 Huge thanks to Mim, our amazing helper elf, and our volunteers Belmonte Michael, Dick & Carol Fresch, Patrick Heenan, Steven Stein, James Bennett, Gary, and Jimmy — your time, heart, and commitment mean everything.
🎄 Thank you to Stephanie Bruckner Bath & Body Works — Aurora Farms) for generous prize donations, and to Michelle Batsch Dyer, who collected toys from the fine people at Swagelok, and special shoutout to the Facebook group Buy Nothing Stow/Munroe Falls, and to everyone in our amazing community who donated toys to help make the night so special for our kids!

Moments like these are a powerful reminder of what community can create together. 💜

As we wrap up the year, we do have an active fundraiser to help support OUR Place and keep this work going. If you’re able to give or share, it truly helps us continue creating moments like this for the people who rely on us:

👉 Donate here: https://gofund.me/17be6f291

Additional ways to support will be shared in the comments.
Thank you for being part of the OUR Place family and for helping us keep the magic alive. ✨💜

12/26/2025

Happy Holidays from OUR Place 💜

Santa Night was full of cheer, laughter, and moments that reminded us why this community matters so deeply. Seeing kids light up, families feel supported, and magic come alive in our recovery community center is exactly what OUR Place exists to do… especially during the holidays.

It is extraordinarily meaningful to celebrate with families who return year after year. Families who once joined us while working toward reunification with their children, coming from treatment, starting over after major setbacks, or joining us from the homeless shelter. Watching people heal, grow, reclaim their lives, and see the promises they worked so hard for come true is incredibly rewarding.

Some families returned this year after illness or hardship pulled them away for a time; knowing they always have family here at OUR Place. That continuity, that sense of belonging, is *everything*.

Truly, moments like this don’t happen without authentic community connection, and the importance of that cannot be overstated.

As we head into the final days of the year and a major transition that will expand OUR Place’s impact even further, we are navigating a short-term funding gap. We could really use your help to keep the doors open and the lights on for the people who rely on us.

If you’re able to give, share, or help in any way, it truly makes a difference right now. Every contribution — large or small — helps us continue showing up for our community.

After you’ve had a chance to enjoy the photos from Santa Night, please check the links in the comments if you’re able to support. 💜
Thank you all so much for being part of OUR Place and for helping us carry this work forward.

12/04/2025

Everyday Recovery Spotlight:
We are so grateful for the women of OUR Community! 💜
There is something so powerful that happens when women in recovery come together… not *just* to stay sober, but to grow, to heal, and to walk the path shoulder to shoulder.

Recently, a group of our lovely ladies spent the day doing the work:
⭐️ Step work together ⭐️ Visiting Dr. Bob’s Home ⭐️ Sharing prayer, reflection, and fellowship ⭐️ Supporting each other through the journey ⭐️ Finding fun, laughter, and genuine connection along the way!

✨ Community is the medicine. ✨
And these women are living proof of the magic that happens when we believe in change and put the effort in.

We don’t do this alone.
We show up for one another.
We lift each other up.

We are so grateful for (and proud of) the work they put in: the honesty, the courage, the resilience, and the willingness to grow.
This is what recovery looks like. This is how HOPE spreads. 💜

Huge shoutout to Gen, Stephanie, Lea, Amber, Cassie, and all the women who consistently show up… for themselves, for each other, and for this phenomenal community.
Keep shining, ladies. You are living proof of the miracle of Recovery! 🌈⭐️

12/02/2025

OUR Place is a lifeline for hundreds of people and families in our community, and like every grassroots, peer-led organization, we’re entering that tough end-of-year stretch where every dollar matters.
We lead with compassion.
We do everything we can to support anyone who comes through our doors.
We show up every day.
We keep the doors open, the lights on, and the love glowing… no matter what.

If OUR Place has touched your life… your family… your friends… or just your heart…

Please consider supporting our Giving Tuesday fundraiser today.

Even $5 or $10 helps us bridge the end of year gap.

⭐️ https://gofund.me/17be6f291

Thank you for believing in our work and in this community. ❤️

Help Break the Cycle: Support Youth, Families & Community Hea… OUR Place (Open United Recovery) needs your support for Hope for the Holidays: Support OUR Place Youth & Families

11/24/2025

Running2BWell Kent Monday has moved to 4:30 & will be in Kent State University Recreation and Wellness Services for the winter!! Join us today at 4:30!!

11/09/2025

🧘‍♀️ Beginner Centered Restorative Yoga is CANCELED for tonight, but we’ll be back next week! 💜 Thank you all for understanding

11/04/2025

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10/28/2025

✨ This is where it all began… ✨
Flashback to Our First-Ever Event: “Get Your Recovery On” (April 2018)

Before we had a building, before we had a sign… we had each other. 💜
These photos take us back to the night that started it all — the very first community event that would grow into OUR Place: Open United Recovery.

Back then, we were just a handful of people with big dreams and even bigger hope; believing that recovery could be celebrated, not hidden.
What began as one night of laughter, food, and games became a movement of compassion, healing, and purpose that continues to evolve today.

It was so funny because we had folks from different programs sitting on opposite sides of the room like a middle school dance 😅 — until the snacks, conversation, and a *legendary* round of musical chairs totally broke the ice. By the end of the night, everyone was celebrating, laughing, and connecting — exactly what recovery community is all about. 💜 It’s always been a team effort at OUR Place. 🙌

We’ve come a long way since that night, but the light you see in these faces?
That’s the magic that still what drives us every single day.

💬 Drop a comment if you were there back in the day — or joined the movement somewhere along the way. We’d love to reminisce with you about your favorite OUR Place moments! 💜

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🔗 Learn more about our story: openunitedrecovery.org/about

10/27/2025

✨ 🎃 Spooky Sober Saturday was an absolute blast! 👻💜
Costumes, candy, Karaoke… and some creatively spooky food! 🕷️
We had the Nacho Nightmare Graveyard Bar, Creepy Casserole, Guts Pasta, and a questionable but legendary “Rat” dessert (pretty sure it was marshmallows… I just didn’t have time to find out 😅).

👦The kids crushed it with their costumes and games — shoutout to our little Kool-Aid Man winner(No favoritism involved😂).

🧌 Adult Costume Champs:
🏆 Tooth Fairy 🧚🏼‍♂️& Tooth🦷
🏆 Garden Gnome 🧙🏻‍♀️

🍨 And the sweetest part of the night… we celebrated Young James’s 2 YEARS of sobriety with a giant ice cream cake! 🥳 He’s doing incredible work leading our Teens & Young Adults Group, and we couldn’t be more proud. 💪💜

🎤 Wrapped the night with Some Spooky Soberoke and good vibes all around.
Recovery really can be fun — and this crew proves it EVERY TIME! 💃🏼🕺🏿