Executive Summary

Voices of Hope is a peer-led and operated recovery community organization that serves people in or seeking recovery from substance use. All 100 staff, the community advisory board, and most of the governing board are in recovery or family members. We are the community that we serve.

Many of us have experienced trauma from sexual abuse, military service, or adverse childhood experiences, have co-occurring mental health conditions, are LGBTQ+, former sex workers, have experienced houselessness, have disabilities, or are justice involved. Most have been reduced to meager means by the impacts of addiction.

Our lived experience provides insight and connection. However, our participants represent themselves. We believe in the power of the voices of those we serve, and that each person recovers when support is in alignment with their individual culture, beliefs, and goals.

We support our community to increase well-being, and in 2022 alone, peers conducted 22,000 coaching sessions, with 12,600 engagements from our mobile outreach program, conducted 80 weekly support meetings with 48,408 seats filled, distributed 3,000 naloxone kits, and provided 5,856 rides to treatment totaling over 232,700 miles driven. Our recovery coaches provide key services, including coaching for goal setting, linkage to health care, employment, housing, barrier relief payments for basic needs such as rent, auto repair, emergency housing, group and telephone support, and harm reduction supply distribution.

We believe in the power of hope, that the future can be better than the present, and individuals and their communities have the power to make it so.

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