Amare, NFP

02/03/2026

02/02/2026

Recovery doesn’t happen in isolation. It grows in rooms. 🌱
At Amare, our groups are more than a weekly meetup. They’re places where recovery capital is built, one connection at a time.
Recovery capital is the collection of supports that make long-term recovery possible. It’s the skills you learn, the relationships you form, the hope you borrow on hard days, and the confidence that comes from not doing this alone.
When you join a group at Amare, you’re building:
✨ Social capital – real relationships with people who get it
✨ Emotional capital – tools to regulate stress, grief, and overwhelm
✨ Personal capital – confidence, boundaries, and self-trust
✨ Community capital – knowing where to turn instead of isolating
You don’t have to be “ready.” You don’t have to have the right words. You just have to show up.
Groups are where isolation loosens its grip and recovery gets stronger roots. 🌿
If you’re carrying more than you should alone, we have a seat for you.

02/01/2026

What is the Great American Recovery Initiative?
President Trump recently launched the Great American Recovery Initiative, a federal effort aimed at addressing addiction and substance use across the U.S.
At its core, this initiative treats addiction as a health issue, not a moral failure.
Instead of different government agencies working in silos, this initiative brings them to the same table — health, housing, justice, labor, veterans, education — to coordinate prevention, treatment, and long-term recovery.
What it does:
✔️ Focuses on addiction as a chronic, treatable disease
✔️ Coordinates federal agencies so services work together
✔️ Supports prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts
✔️ Encourages partnerships with states, nonprofits, and communities
What it doesn’t do (yet):
⚠️ It doesn’t automatically create new funding
⚠️ Details on implementation are still developing

Think of it like this:
The government finally appointing a conductor so everyone plays the same song when it comes to addiction recovery — instead of competing noise.
Whether this leads to real change will depend on follow-through, funding, and how communities are supported on the ground.

Recovery isn’t just personal. It’s systemic. And coordination matters.

01/30/2026

Did you know that we host a unique grief & Art group on Friday mornings. We go through the book Grief day by day and paint supplies are provided for freehand painting. Not for an art gallery….but because putting paint on the canvas while processing grief is so incredibly soothing especially in a group. Please join us 9:30-11am. Check out our Amare calendar on our website in case we have to cancel for any reason
https://amarenfp.org/partners-events/

01/28/2026

At AMARE NFP, we believe in ending the stigma surrounding mental health. Join the movement, speak up, and support others on their healing journey.

01/28/2026

Amare is celebrating 10 years and we have some really INCREDIBLE things planned. Stay tuned.

01/26/2026

Next time you mess up, notice the words you throw at yourself.
Would you say them to a friend who’s trying, learning, showing up?
Try a quiet rewrite:
❌ “I always screw this up.”
➡️ “I’m learning. This is part of it.”
❌ “I’m so bad at this.”
➡️ “I made one mistake, not a verdict.”
Mistakes are information, not character references.
Change the language, change the experience.
Be firm with the lesson. Be kind with the learner. 🌱
What’s one sentence you’re ready to retire from your inner dialogue today?

01/24/2026

They were a child once.

A child who learned fear before comfort.
A child who learned to stay quiet, to read moods, to survive abuse and neglect without anyone noticing. Trauma wasn’t an event — it was the air they breathed.

Mental illness followed them into adulthood. Anxiety that never shut off. Nightmares that never stopped. A body stuck in fight-or-flight. Help was always “available,” but somehow never reachable. Appointments months away. Paperwork they couldn’t manage. Costs they couldn’t afford.

So they did what humans do when they’re drowning.

They found something that made the pain stop — just for a moment.
Something that slowed their thoughts.
Something that made sleep possible.

Self-medication wasn’t a choice. It was survival.

Then came the consequences everyone judges but no one asks about. Missed shifts. Lost jobs. Relationships strained beyond repair. No safety net. No one to call. One bad month turned into eviction. One night with nowhere to go turned into weeks outside.

Now the world sees them and looks away.

They don’t see the terrified kid still living inside them.
They don’t see untreated mental illness screaming for care.
They don’t see how impossible it is to heal while cold, hungry, and afraid.

They just see homelessness — and decide that’s who this person is.

But homelessness is not the cause.
It’s the result.

It’s the result of trauma ignored, abuse unhealed, mental illness untreated, and coping mechanisms criminalized instead of understood.

People experiencing homelessness aren’t failures.
They are survivors who ran out of options.

And no one heals in survival mode.

If we want fewer people on the streets, we have to stop asking “What’s wrong with them?”
and start asking “What happened to them — and why didn’t we help sooner?”

01/24/2026

Survival is being treated like a crime.

Across many cities, people who are unhoused are ticketed or arrested for sleeping outside, resting in public spaces, panhandling, or simply existing where they are visible. These aren’t crimes of harm—they’re acts of survival.

But those citations don’t disappear.

Fines people can’t afford turn into warrants.

Arrests turn into records.

Records turn into barriers.

A single citation can block access to:

Jobs that require background checks
Housing applications
Public benefits and services
Mental health and substance use treatment programs

So the system criminalizes homelessness… then uses those same “offenses” as reasons to deny people a way out.

This isn’t accountability.

It’s a revolving door.

People who are unhoused don’t need punishment—they need housing, healthcare, and support without conditions that set them up to fail.

You don’t solve homelessness by making it illegal to survive it.

01/24/2026

Let’s talk about the myths around homelessness—because they hurt real people.

People experiencing homelessness are often labeled as “lazy,” “unmotivated,” or “choosing this life.” That narrative is not only false—it’s harmful.

The truth: you can’t get a job without an ID.

You can’t get an ID without an address.

You can’t get an address without money.

And you can’t get money without a job.

That’s not a lack of effort. That’s a system full of locked doors.

Add to that limited access to mental health care, long waitlists, transportation barriers, and services that require paperwork many people simply can’t obtain. People experiencing homelessness are often doing everything they can—while carrying trauma, stress, and untreated mental health conditions that would overwhelm anyone.

Homelessness is not a personal failure.

It’s a policy failure.

It’s a systems failure.

If we truly care about solutions, we have to stop blaming people and start removing barriers. Housing, healthcare, identification, and dignity are not rewards—they’re necessities.

See people. Listen to people. Advocate for change.

Because no one is “the homeless.”

They are people experiencing homelessness—and they deserve better.

Follow us on this journey as we talk about truth and compassion and solutions!

01/23/2026